How to watch Dune

Dune – the new sci-fi blockbuster starring Oscar nominee Timothée Chalamet – is free to stream on the HBO Max Ad-Free plan from 22nd October. Read on for how to watch Dune on HBO Max in 4K from any country in the world. This Dune movie tells the story of Paul Atreides (Chalamet), a brilliant and gifted nobleman entrusted with protecting the galaxy's most vital element from evil forces that are hellbent of wiping out humanity. An all-star Dune cast includes Rebecca Ferguson, Jason Momoa, ...

TLS on TLS in Literature - hyperreflexivity perhaps

The article mentions several examples of the times literary supplement being included in stories that are published and perhaps later reviewed by the times literary supplement itself -zas

Knowledge as Taste - and sentience as experiences

Van Gogh’s Bed

Van Gogh’s Bed By Jane Flanders is orange, like Cinderella’s coach, like the sun when he looked it straight in the eye. is narrow, he sleeps alone, tossing between two pillows, while it carried him bumpily to the ball. is clumsy, but friendly. A peasant built the frame; and old wife beat the mattress till it rose like meringue. is empty, morning light pours in like wine, melody, fragrance, the memory of happiness. Summary of Van Gogh’s Bed The popularity of "Van...

Carson McCullers

Early Life A renowned American Novelist, playwright, and essayist, Carson McCullers, was born on the 19th of February in 1917 in Georgia, the United States. She was a precocious daughter of Lamar Smith, a jeweler by profession, while her mother, Marguerite Waters, was a homemaker. Carson shared the aesthetic and unique creative abilities of her parents from a very young age; she took piano lessons when she was five. Later, after recognizing her unique writing abilities, her father gifted C...

Sunday Reading: Adaptations

In 1998, the novelist Michael Cunningham published a short story in The New Yorker about a woman living in postwar Los Angeles who feels dissatisfied with her incomplete marriage. On the day of her husband’s birthday, she peruses Virginia Woolf’s novel "Mrs. Dalloway" and starts reflecting on the trajectory of her own life. "A Room at the Normandy" is an excerpt from Cunningham’s novel "The Hours," which won the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for fiction and was adapted into an Oscar-winning film, in 20...

Polyphemus and words - a profound observation in a quote in Lexicon by Max Barry

Superhost

The vacation rental industry is just weird. We go into homes owned by other people with security cameras through which they can watch us and act like it’s no big deal. This inherently discomfiting situation was unpacked well in Dave Franco's ambitious "The Rental" last year and it returns as the center of Brandon Christensen’s effective "Superhost," a story of two vloggers who stumble into the wrong rental. It’s slight even in its short run time, but it’s anchored by an impressively unhinged ...

Big Town, Insistent Revolutions: On the Rich, Kaleidoscopic Lives of New Yorkers in Literature

"He entered the park at the North Gate and swallowed mouthfuls of the heavy shade that curtained its arch. He walked into the shadow of a lamp-post that lay on the path like a spear. It pierced him like a spear." The above is from the beginning of the second chapter of Nathanael West’s Miss Lonelyhearts, a brief and brilliant novel set in late-Prohibition New York; the arch and lamp-post mentioned belong to Washington Square Park. I remember, in my twenties, reading this sentence for the f...

The Classic Album at Midnight – The Who's Who's Next - Nova.ie

Tonight (September 9th) on the world famous Classic Album at Midnight on Radio Nova we’re playing The Who’s Who’s Next.The album is presented in full with no commercials or interruptions.Following 1969’s rock opera Tommy, The Who began developing a similar project provisionally titled Lifehouse. A sci-fi saga, Lifehouse would have told the story of a near future society where live music is banned and people are forced to stay indoors (why does that sound familiar?). That project was ultimatel...

Review: The Voyeurs Is an Audaciously Trashy Spin on Rear Window

Michael Mohan’s The Voyeurs pushes back hard on the trend of sex disappearing from movie screens by showing ridiculously attractive people in various states of undress and copulation. The film begins with an upwardly mobile twentysomething couple, optometrist Pippa (Sydney Sweeney) and musician Thomas (Justice Smith), moving into their swanky new downtown Montreal loft. When they see the couple in the apartment across the way having passionate sex, Thomas says, "They must know," in response t...

Asgard in Orkney - Petroglyphs, Ancient Races And A US Connection

Within the rolling green hills of Scotland lie thousands of ancient stones covered with mysterious glyphs. And, somehow, a near identical stone can be found hidden in the great Appalachians of North Carolina in the United States, near a mountain summit. How can it be that the same symbols appear in both Prehistoric Scotland and North Carolina ? These symbols whisper a cryptic message to us from a forgotten time. Scholars and amateurs alike can only stare in wonder, scratching their hea...

Look who's back: 3-meter-tall monolith reappears in Diyarbakır | Daily Sabah - Daily Sabah

A three-meter-tall (9.8-foot-tall) mysterious metal monolith reappeared in Turkey's southeastern Diyarbakır province, just a few months after it was discovered in Turkey’s Şanlıurfa province for the first time and was later revealed to be part of the unveiling of the country's National Space Program. The metal slab has words carved on it in the Göktürk alphabet, the Old Turkic script, with the words "Look at the sky if you want to see the Moon." The monolith, which was placed near...

He’s All That - Review

Watch He’s All That with the theme in mind of the mirror or twin storyworld is intermedial or self-referential maybe; and whatever the implications are for gender transpositions, consider those too Page C8

Weekend links 584

Cover for the 1970 US edition of Moonchild by Aleister Crowley. No artist credited (unless you know better…). Update: The artist is Dugald Stewart Walker, and the drawing is from a 1914 edition of Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tales. Thanks to Mr TjZ! • "…a very mid-Seventies cauldron of Cold War technology, ESP, sociology, black magic and white magic, experimental science and standing stones, secret radar and satanic rituals, whirring aerials and wild moors: a seething potion of Wyndha...

Around the World in 80 Days review – a charmingly goofy take on Jules Verne

Phileas Fogg and Passepartout become a frog and a monkey in a modest French-Belgian animation that’s hard to hate onGiven there are so, so many film adaptations of Jules Verne’s infinitely malleable 19th-century adventure story, you might wonder why the French-Belgium production team behind this latest iteration felt the need to add yet another one to the pile. Well, it’s obvious, isn’t it? There’s never been an animated version where the lead characters are played by a frog and a monkey, and...

A History Of Cars In Films

Cars have been highlighted in films throughout history, inspiring many generations and influencing the latest trends. The cars we see on screen have often become our dream cars, that we long to buy or even just rent for a day.So, from James Bond (1964) all the way through to John Wick (2014), here is a shortlist of some of the most iconic cars in films throughout history. One thing is for sure – these cars are so legendary that they will have you researching how to get them on car finance wit...

Islam - pagan origin and Moon god worship

Hubal and Allah the Moon God? Islam: Truth or Myth? start page Introduction to basic facts of history: Moon worship has been practiced in Arabia since 2000 BC. The crescent moon is the most common symbol of this pagan moon worship as far back as 2000 BC. In Mecca, there was a god named Hubal who was Lord of the Kabah. This Hubal was a moon god. One Muslim apologist confessed that the idol of moon god Hubal was placed upon the roof of the Kaba about 400 years before Muhammad. T...

Intertextuality: Hollywood's New Emotional Currency? [Video Essay]

Home Featured Reviews Trailers /Answers /Filmcast /Film Daily Podcast 2' Advertisement Intertextuality: Hollywood’s New Emotional Currency? [Video Essay] Posted on Thursday, May 26th, 2016 by Peter Sciretta The Nerdwriter’s latest video "Intertextuality: Hollywood’s New Currency" takes a look at how Hollywood is using our nostalgia to play with our emotions in sequels, remakes and even original movies. Inspired...

Classic Movies that Almost Had Different Endings

10 Classic Movies That Almost Had Different Endings | CBR - CBR - Comic Book Resources Cinema necessitates multiple cooks in the kitchen. Combined with the need for revision inherent to the creative process, many films end up different from how they were originally envisioned. RELATED: 10 Decent Movies With Amazing Last Acts There are 10 famous films with alternate endings conceived, scripted, or even filmed which differed from the final product, along with t...

John R. Pierce - Monoskop

John R. Pierce Jump to navigation Jump to search John Robinson Pierce (27 March 1910 – 2 April 2002), was an American engineer and author. He worked extensively in the fields of radio communication, microwave technology, computer music, psychoacoustics, and science fiction. Born in Des Moines, Iowa, he earned his PhD from Caltech, and died in Palo Alto, California from complications of Parkinson's Disease. Contents [hide] Books Articles Talks Literature See ...

Once upon a time in Hollywood, again: Tarantino revises his fairy tale

Once Upon a Time . . . in Hollywood (2019).I guess what I’m always trying to do is use the structures that I see in novels and apply them to cinema.–Quentin TarantinoDB here:Tarantino has often embraced print-based texts that revise or complement his films. He’s shared screenplays that differ sharply from the finished product, and written graphic novels derived from Django Unchained. Now he’s gone farther. He’s published a novelization that playfully modifies the  film’s title: Once Upon a Ti...

Reloading the Canon

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J.B. Priestley

Early LifeJohn Boynton Priestley, known as J.B. Priestley in the literary world, was a renowned English writer, social commentator, and playwright. He was born on 13the September 1894, in Yorkshire in England. He was a bright son of Jonathan Priestley, a headmaster, while his mother, Emma, was a housewife. Unfortunately, his mother died when he was just two years old, leaving his father to remarry Amy Fletcher in 1898, whom Priestley described as a loving stepmother.EducationPriestley started...

1 john 1:1-4 [the word of life] | BibleDude.life

U aa M 1 john 1:1-4 [the word of life] Written by Leslie Rowe Owner/writer at Greatwords.net. Penn State alum. Religious views: for. Political vi...