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Category Archives: Reviews
The Spirit is Willing but the movie is dated
A romantic triangle in 1898 ends with all three lovers dead. And their ghosts go on to kill people and drive them insane. It’s a comedy, don’t you know? The Spirit is Willing claimed in its advertising to “face the biggest … Continue reading
Posted in Reviews
Tagged extremely strong underarm deoderant, ghost sex, ghost story, ghosts, Humor, Jill Townsend, John Astin, movie, Sid Caesar, supernatural, Vera Miles
6 Comments
Planet of the . . . absurd
Who knew that the author of Planet of the Apes (1963) was a Frenchman who was also author of The Bridge Over the River Kwai (1952)? Pierre Boulle (1912-1994) had a sense of the absurd which led him to depict men and apes … Continue reading
Posted in Reading fiction, Reviews
Tagged books, fantasy, Fiction, Pierre Boulle, Planet of the Apes, Reading, review, Science fiction
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Trust me; I know what I’m doing! A retrospective on Sledge Hammer!
Sledge Hammer! is a mostly-forgotten TV comedy show from the 1980s with a cult following. It probably doesn’t deserve either to be forgotten or to be a cult show. I’m not sure what it deserves! But it’s an interesting look at the … Continue reading
Posted in Reviews
Tagged Anne-Marie Martin, comedy, David Rasche, Harrison Page, not Peter Gabriel, Police Squad, satire, Sledge Hammer
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Going back to “Underworld” before they release a fifth film
I’m not a big fan of Underworld, but I did pick up the Blu-ray set of the movies a year ago. Now I hear there’s a fifth movie on the way, although casting problems may delay it. So I decided … Continue reading
Posted in Reading fiction, Reviews
Tagged Kate Beckinsale, lycans, Michael Sheen, movie series, movies, supernatural, Underworld, Underworld movie, Underworld series, vampires, werewolves
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Review: Rachel Urquhart, The Visionist
Writing a novel about the Shakers forces a serious novelist to have to make several choices, some of which will shape the story, others of which can detrimentally affect the story. To her credit, most of Rachel Urquhart’s choices in The … Continue reading
Posted in Reading fiction, Reviews
Tagged books, Fiction, Rachel Urquhart, Reading, religious commune, Shakers, the Shakers, The Visionist
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Review: the supernatural stories of Gertrude Atherton
After reading an anthology of Victorian-Era ghost stories by women writers, I decided I would read through a volume of supernatural stories by one of the authors with whom I was less familiar. As it turns out, I’ll be reading three … Continue reading
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Tagged book review, Fiction, Gertrude Atherton, ghost story, review, S. T. Joshi, supernatural story
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