Bruce Campbell reprises his iconic role as chainsaw-wielding Ash in this bombastic follow-up that sees him transported to medieval times to battle hordes of undead creatures. Filled with campy special effects and slapstick humor, the film embraces its B-movie roots while delivering a rollicking g...
Unless you take 50 Shades of Grey and change the names back to Bella and Edward (or just find E.L. James’ old dirty fan fiction). I’ve never been more scared that I’m about to be molested by a banana… Guys. For just $75.00 you can be a weird rapey banana. Isn’t that gr...
The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford PART I I THIS is the saddest story I have ever heard. We had known the Ashburnhams for nine seasons of the town of Nauheim with an extreme intimacy--or, rather with an acquaintanceship as loose and easy and yet as clos
Bruce Campbell reprises his iconic role as chainsaw-wielding Ash in this bombastic follow-up that sees him transported to medieval times to battle hordes of undead creatures. Filled with campy special effects and slapstick humor, the film embraces its B-movie roots while delivering a rollicking g...
Many superstitions have attached themselves to Good Friday. In past times blacksmiths hesitated to work on this day, out of respect for the terrible purpose that iron nails were put to on the first Good Friday. In medieval England monarchs blessed gold and silver "cramp rings" on Good Friday...
Meursault and many other top French names. Laithwaite was all too aware of the problem. After years working in French vineyards he had returned to the UK to set up Bordeaux Direct, which imported cases directly “from châteaux that do actually exist”, he wrote in his letter. The counterf...
Until I spotted one of the toxic names from my blacklist. Deflated, I immediately replied to the email letting them know that I could not participate. I told them why too. That was that. It felt quite good for a minute. My total concurrence: I won’t ruin the punchline but, again,...
I was prepped and primed forNow is the Time, the telling of a medieval peasant’s revolt, which (not coincidentally) also sheds light on part of English’s struggle to survive to serve as a language of state and religion. As I write this, I have already finished the novel (misleading ...
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here, too, there is some of this within. The subtitle for the book gives us hint –“The Love Story of One Band and the Whole World” – but even here we both have Sheffield’s love story, and we don’t. There’s just not enough of it to be considered the purpose for the book...