If the box office receipts are testament enough, the movie didn’t make much of a dent but for entirely different reasons. Roger Corman seems to have made his own implicit response. He never made another such picture again instead relegating his talents to Vincent Price Poe dramas and other ...
Looking for a good book? The View From the Tower by Charles Lambert is a slow moving, psychological thriller that doesn’t provide a way into the hearts of any of the characters. I received a digital copy of this book from the publisher, through Netgalley, in exchange for an honest revi...
It also seems cold of Laura as a character not to have a name for him. But it isn’t just laziness; it has a basis. There is an old superstition that it is unlucky to change a horse’s name. The black horse in the book is a present to Laura, a high-bred horse with a fancy ...
Nor was I familiar with the story of Echo and Narcissus. The book is delightfully illustrated by Sara Richard who provides some bold, unique portraits throughout. I wish there was a painting for each name in the book, but there is not. I’ve already used this book as a reference to ...
t Beat The Feelingbut keep those hotpants on-hand for irresistible calls to the dancefloor in the shape ofGet Outta My WayandPut Your Hands Up. And just when you think you’ve second-guessed everything about this winsome wonder of an album, along comes the title track. Strutting and ...
What it did for the time was a lot of what we'd think of now as "of course!" things, like an internal hard drive. I remember loading audio CDs onto the Xbox so I had my own soundtrack. But I also remember calling Microsoft out. Why couldn't I just load the games from the dis...