romantic fiction – SEVEN CIRCUMSTANCES

by MMB July 31, 2015 0

Hausfrau, by Jill Alexander Essbaum – A Modern Parable with Switzerland Substituted for Moral Subtext?

The lead character in Hausfrau, “Anna Benz”, must be one of the most disagreeable people I have had the misfortuneContinue Reading

Questions to Nick Cave of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

Don’t you get sick and tired of people asking dumb ass questions? November 11, 2019

Would you like to ask me a question? NICOLA, WALLASEY, UK [ ] I have come to believe that the right question is what we are really searching for, the answer may reveal itself if only we can find the right question. My question to you, then, is what is your question? GEMMA, HOVE, […] The post Don’t you get sick and tired of people asking dumb ass questions? […]

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Art of the Title – Review of Film Title Sequences

Semi-Permanent Sydney 2019 (2019) November 6, 2019

"Beauty is truth, truth beauty" wrote English poet John Keats in 1819. "That is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know." For creative directors Hazel Baird and Heidi Berg, however, Keats's eternal chiasmus is incomplete; their truth is so much more. In their opening to Semi-Permanent Sydney 2019, Truth is a savior and a shadow […]

Night of the Demons (1988) October 23, 2019

“I've never heard so many disgusting stories in all my life.” — Judy Cassidy In the pantheon of goofy, gory and trashy ’80s horror movies, 1988’s Night of the Demons is one of the best. Directed by Kevin Tenney, the movie chronicles the wacky and violent misadventures of a group of ill-begotten teens invited to a Halloween party at an abandoned house by […]