The original Alien from Ridley Scott sends the crew of the Nostromo to investigate a distress call from an abandoned alien spaceship as innocently as any gang of hormonal teenagers headed off to a remote cabin in the woods. And, just like those teenagers, not many of them are going to ...
“Almost uniquely among contemporary American poets, Joseph doesn’t retail privities, doesn’t chase the minuscule scraps of sublimity left to us, doesn’t retreat to his literal or figurative cabin in the woods. Readers of his work may be tempted to conclude: this poet doesn’t have a pe...
First, let’s go to Madrid and meet Berta Isla and Tomás Nevison, the main characters ofBerta Islaby Javier Marías. It starts in the 1970s when they meet in high school and fall in love. Their relationship goes on while they go to university, Berta in Madrid and Tomás in Oxford. ...
Formerly titled "Dead Reckoning Part Two" before dropping that subtitle in October 2023, the plot of "Mission: Impossible 8" will directly follow the events of "Dead Reckoning," in which Ethan Hunt and crew got their hands on the cruciform key that can defeat the Entity. Their mission will...
aIn June 1851, when she was 40, the first installment of her Uncle Tom's Cabin was published in the National Era. She originally used the subtitle "The Man That Was A Thing", but it was soon changed to "Life Among the Lowly".[1] Installments were published weekly from June 5, 1851...
On an early leg, she felt attracted to a handsome and soft-spoken engineer and shared his cabin on a night boat to Albany. And felt not the least regret: “If the captain of this ship should come in now, and there should be a nasty scene, they could not make me feel shame, I ...
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides is a 2011 fantasy adventure comedy film and the fourth installment of the Pirates of the Caribbean series. Gore Verbinski, who had directed the three previous films, was replaced by Rob Marshall, while Jerry Br
The horror comedy focused on a group of Black friends who decide to spend the night at a cabin in the woods. The horror kicks in when a mysterious killer begins questioning their African-American cred and demands they determine the blackest member of the group for sacrifice. The movie was ...
Set in the Alaskan wilderness, Sukkwan Island by David Vann tells the story of Jim, a father who decides to go and spend a whole winter with Roy, his teenage son in a cabin on an isolated island. Roy’s parents are divorced and he lived with his mother and sister in California when...
37As dawn breaks over a backdrop of tall trees and a rough cabin (stage left), a woodsman courts an Indian maiden in a small clearing, while two others sit in front of the cabin and a third stands near the couple—all four women as singers in native costume.38As a prelude to the ...