After a decade of running in place (to great box-office success), Quentin Tarantino found his sweet spot again — a fetishistic collage of Hollywood ’60s bric-a-brac that allows him to examine (or maybe just to live inside) the world that, for better or worse, shaped his fantasies. O...
“real” work—and one that very much drew on his youthful surroundings. Adapted from a popularnovelbyMarie Belloc Lowndes, the suspenseful story introduces the structure of many Hitchcock films to come: a London man (Ivor Novello) is accused of being aJack the Ripper-like killer and finds ...
Once, I threw away the old table in her house which got her fall over. She was so angry that she didn’t talk to me for a whole week! But at the end of that week, her caregiver called, saying she died of a sudden heart attack. I cried my heart out when I arrived at the ...
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A Look at the 2024 House Races with a Statistical View of Races in Play Jun 26, 2024Minnesota Report The Minnesota State House Districts which both legislative caucuses are targeting and in play this election and not that hard to figure out. The factors used for determining where resources ar...
I must admit that I had a selfish motive in rushing to read Another Present Era. It’s exactly the sort of unique, utterly forgotten, and deeply intriguing book we’re publishing in the Recovered Books series from Boiler House Press, and Michael Gonzales was kind enough to communicate my in...
most of Dekobra’s work had falled out of print and, even for French readers, he was an unknown. Melville House reissued his single biggest bestseller,The Madonna of the Sleeping Cars, as part of its Neversink Library in 2012, but that appears to be the only one of his books currently...
The whole of this house-swap comedy is fun enough to watch throughout the year. But every time I watchone sceneinNancy Meyers' charming yuletide rom-com, this nostalgia for long-dead video store flirting bubbles up anew, with all the subtlety of Jack Black "scraaaaahdle-daaaah"ing throug...
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Sure, business is sweet, but he can’t seem to shake the romantic curse that’s left him past thirty and still a virgin. He’s decided he’s doomed to be forever alone. Until he meets Danica Waterhouse. The sparks are instant, their attraction irresistible. For him, she’s the one....