The latter film would mediate classical Gothic horror, 1920s Weird Fiction, and early signs of the Cronenbergian impulse of perverted flesh and misbegotten human creation. The Wasp Woman, coming between, nods back to the likes of The Wolf Man (1941) in the theme of an ordinary person ...
A beautiful piece of Japanese historical fiction that fans of the genre need to read. Buy a copy of Silence here! The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows Adapted into a film of the same name starring Lily James, The Guernsey Literary and ...
London saw a huge influx of starving Irish fleeing the English fuelled Irish potato famine. (In Victorian times the Irish made up 5% of all Londoners, many living in extreme poverty in areas like Whitechapel, St Giles and Southwark). Later in this century there was another influx of Jews, ...