The Death of Stalin: Directed by Armando Iannucci. With Olga Kurylenko, Tom Brooke, Paddy Considine, Justin Edwards. Moscow, 1953. After being in power for nearly 30 years, Soviet dictator, Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin, takes ill and quickly dies. Now th
The first half of “The Death of Stalin,” as I said, is rife with slapstick as the above mentioned historical characters buffoon their way to gaining power. As the palace intrigue plays out, the film takes on a more somber tone as the viewer realizes that these clowns are also men of...
Death at a Funeral: Directed by Frank Oz. With Matthew Macfadyen, Keeley Hawes, Andy Nyman, Ewen Bremner. Chaos ensues when a man tries to expose a dark secret regarding a recently deceased patriarch of a dysfunctional British family.
The Midst of Lifeis subtitled “A Romance,” but knowing a bit about Mina Curtiss, I read it assuming it was a work of nonfiction. I was surprised, then, to discover than Houghton Mifflin marketed it as a novel, for aside from the change of a name or two, this is drawn directly fr...
“Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.”– Socrates best death quotes “Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.”– Haruki Murakami quotes on death “A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.”– Joseph Stalin “Live your life, do yo...
Note: Both characters will be composited with every form of media they’ve appeared in Superman vs Optimus is a What-If? Death Battle written by Cheesypickles564, featuring Superman from DC Comics against Optimus Prime from the Transformers media series.
Stalin has successfully duped the world by claiming the Bolshevik system has changed. But in reality, nothing has changed in Soviet Russia. The churches have not been reopened with the exception of a few for propaganda purposes. The same despotism, the same terror and cruelty, the same slavery...
Yes. Carter was obsessed with the TV show Glee and the show's stars, Lea Michele and Cory Monteith, who were dating in real life like their characters Rachel and Finn were on the show. As seen in The Girl from Plainville, Carter would repeat lines from the show when talking about her...
Fallaci has witnessed most of the wars in her lifetime, and her narrative betrays an abiding affection for grunts. “I love soldiers. They are my kids, they are my children,” Fallaci confesses. (If you talk to Fallaci long enough, you’ll learn that lots of things--her characters, her...
Death at a Funeral: Directed by Frank Oz. With Matthew Macfadyen, Keeley Hawes, Andy Nyman, Ewen Bremner. Chaos ensues when a man tries to expose a dark secret regarding a recently deceased patriarch of a dysfunctional British family.