Pale Blue Eye review - telltale hearts

Film review by Nick Hasted - The Arts DeskAugustus Landor (Christian Bale) is the prototype for the Rue Morgue murders’ deducer, Auguste Dupin. He’s a legendary, retired police detective, asked to solve a death at the West Point military academy in wintry upstate New York. The suicide verdict of Dr Marquis (Toby Jones) is swiftly altered to ritual murder then followed by a second, with hearts carved out of hanged bodies. Landor enlists cadet Poe (Harry Melling) to infiltrate the academy’s Bul...

Loving Stories within Stories

SEE ALSO: post published in Rootbeer Review-zasAfter an unplanned visit to the Cardiac Care Unit, I'm under strict orders not to stress and/or work, for now.... but of course, I can muse, and an idea that grabbed me is that of intertextuality. I've written about it before, so this is basically a repost. See? I am NOT stressing or working, but I did want to share. After all, it's my day to post at the @supernaturalunderground, you know, where books make the heart beat faster? (Haha!)In a more ...

Best Episodes of Abbott Elementary so far

Is it too soon to pick the best episodes of "Abbott Elementary," which has been on the air for just over a year? It wasn’t too soon to put it on every end of year list IndieWire put together, so we say no. On December 7, 2021, ABC premiered the pilot of Quinta Brunson’s elementary school mockumentary, about a spirited and underfunded Philadelphia public school. Brunson stars as second-grade teacher Janine Teagues, a second-year teacher yet to be worn down by the administration. Her optimis...

The Seven Faces of Jane

The Seven Faces of Jane https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-seven-faces-of-jane-movie-review-2023 Created January 13, 2023 at 05:32PM When a movie is powered mainly by an intriguing concept, any complaint that a viewer might level against it can be waved away with the phrase, "That's a feature, not a bug." Such is the case with "The Seven Faces of Jane," an improvised, collaborative work by eight directors. It's essentially eight short films revolving around a Los Angeles-area actress a...

Storystorm 2023 Day 8 - Kathleen Doherty Exercises Intertextuality

by Kathleen Doherty Happy Eighth Day of Storystorm! One of my favorite topics is INTERTEXTUALITY—a literary theory that whatever you create, is influenced by something you’ve heard, seen, or read before. In other words, intertextuality is borrowing ideas from another piece of literature and using them to shape a new text. It’s not lifting another person’s work word-for-word. As you know, that’s called plagiarism. Mark Twain said, "There is no such thing as a new idea. It is imposs...

Hidden Meanings in the drug culture

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Interacting with Print

Book Title: Interacting with Print: Elements of Reading in the Era of Print SaturationAbout this ebook A thorough rethinking of a field deserves to take a shape that is in itself new. Interacting with Printdelivers on this premise, reworking the history of print through a unique effort in authorial collaboration. The book itself is not a typical monograph—rather, it is a "multigraph," the collective work of twenty-two scholars who together have assembled an alphabetically arranged tour of ...

Biggest Turkey in Game Show History

By Adam Nedeff, Researcher for the National Archives of Game Show History You bring the stuffing, the cranberry sauce, and the pumpkin pie. For Thanksgiving, we’ll bring you the biggest turkey in the history of game shows: You’re in the Picture By 1961, Jackie Gleason was already a bona fide show business legend. His Cavalcade of Stars had made him one of the first superstars in the young medium of television. The classic 39-episode season of The Honeymooners had been icing on the cake....

Fairytale discourse paper with markups by Z

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Unmasking Prosopological Exegesis - Defining a New and Improved Way to Read Scripture

Prosopological exegesis. Have you heard of it? If not, that’s alright, I suspect this technique for reading Scripture will run its course in the next decade and be replaced by another interpretive fad in the 2030s. In the mean time, however, this way of (mis)reading Scripture will find its way into articles, book, commentaries, and pulpits. And for that reason, students of the Word and especially teachers who rely on the scholarship of others (read: all of us), should be( a)ware of thi...

Cerinthus

HomeAbout Me About the Blog Academic Resources (External) Academic Resources (Internal) The Jesus Memoirs The History and Reception of the New Testament Home » Blog posts » Cerinthus Cerinthus Recent Posts See You in the New Year! Mark was not a Pauline Gospel: Conclusions Mark was not a Pauline Gospel: T...

Twentieth Century British Supernatural Novel - 1958

New on Archive.org to borrow, The Twentieth Century British Supernatural Novel (1958). Includes an early positive appreciation of Tolkien as a supernatural writer. And by someone who had actually read The Lord of the Rings (most critics of the time didn’t, something which is obvious from their reviews and comments). The text also has some discussion of Lovecraft.

Post-War Novel and the Death of the Author - The

Arya Aryan's The Post-War Novel and the Death of the Author (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021) not only discloses and examines different functions and concepts of authorship in fiction and theory from the 1950s and 1960s to the present but it also reveals, at least implicitly, a trajectory of some of the modes and functions of the novel as a genre in the last few decades. It argues that the explicit terms of much of the theoretical and philosophical debate surrounding the concept of authorship in the...

Film at Lincoln Center Announces Jordan Peele Curation - Broadway World

Film at Lincoln Center announces The Lost Rider: A Chronicle of Hollywood Sacrifice, from January 5-14. Widely hailed as one of this century's great directorial debuts, Jordan Peele's era-defining Get Out injected new life into horror with its witty subversion of racial politics and elitist social mores. Two years later, his wildly entertaining Us plumbed everything from isolationist fears and late-capitalist power structures to the rich lineage of the doppelgänger motif and home-invasio...

Pale Blue Eye Review

The Pale Blue Eye is one of those movie titles that’s evocative yet teasingly vague — it makes the film sound like a Western based on a song by Lou Reed. Actually, the movie is based on Louis Bayard’s 2006 novel, which uses an 1830s military setting and murder mystery to frame a kind of origin myth of Edgar Allan Poe. At West Point, which in the early 19th century is basically a fort in the woods overlooking the Hudson River, a cadet suffers a violent death. He is cut down from a noose hangin...

19 NINETEEN - Gods Signature in Nature and Scripture

19 NINETEEN - Gods Signature in Nature and ScriptureSourceURL: https://smile.amazon.com/19-NINETEEN-Signature-Nature-Scripture/dp/0979671590/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1H803O9FZL1ZA&keywords=Nineteen+gods+signature&qid=1671676761&sprefix=nineteen+gods+signature%2Caps%2C66&sr=8-1 19 NINETEEN: God's Signature in Nature and Scripture: Yuksel, Edip: 9780979671593: AmazonSmile: Books by Learn more https://smile.amazon.com/19-NINETEEN-Signature-Nature-Scripture/dp/0979671590/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1H803O9FZL1ZA&keyw...

Celebrating an 11th Anniversary

Four score and seven years ago (less seventy-six years) I started this blog. That makes this Once Upon a Screen’s eleventh anniversary. Who’d ‘a thunk it? While an anniversary is cause for celebration, I admit to feeling a bit guilty this year given I have barely blogged. It has been a tough one, but I am happy Once Upon a Screen is still here for me to movie vent. As is tradition on this blog, I celebrate anniversaries with tributes to the number. Let’s look at the ...

The Best Modern Noir Movies, Ranked

HomeMovie ListsThe Best Modern Noir Movies, RankedThe Best Modern Noir Movies, RankedBy Rudransh BundelaPublished 2 days agoFrom moody visuals, to somber narratives, here are some of the best modern noir films, ranked. Paramount PicturesFilm noir is a sub-genre of filmmaking that predominantly focuses on stylistic visual elements like the interplay of shadow lighting along with black and white motifs. Film historians believe that noir films have their roots in German expressionist cinematogr...

Complicated conversations - Tactics for dealing with conspiracy theorists

The season is upon us, which means you’ll likely be gathering with family members and friends to share a holiday meal, but that can also mean sharing some dubious claim someone has seen on the internet.  So we’d like to offer you a couple of tactics to use over the holidays to counter those claims you might face from your wacky relatives or friends — and to keep the peace. Moon landing Let’s start with a conspiracy theory that is very common. Ever since NASA sent men to the ...

How Amazon's 'Nanny' fixes the problem of "exotic" horror tropes

For almost as long as the genre has existed on-screen, horror movies have used real cultural mythologies to frighten us. Exorcisms, spirits, and vampires are all familiar tropes that have international origins — even more niche subgenres like folk horror owe themselves entirely to pagan and foreign religions. While plenty of these films find nuance by balancing terror with genuine reverence, many American-made horror movies can’t help but feel exploitative — presenting certain spiritual bel...

There Are So Many Penises on Television. It’s Time for the Final Frontier.

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Films About Poets

HomeMovie ListsBest Films About Poets, Ranked Best Films About Poets, Ranked By Erik Nielsen Published 5 days ago The life of a poet is not inherently cinematic, but these ten films find beauty in lives lived between the pages, and make them worthwhile. Amazon Studios Artistic pursuits confined to the page are never an easy or inherently cinematic activity to portray on screen. Given the difficult task of portraying the solitary act of writing, films about poetry lend th...

Alam - on the Fleeting Nature of Symbols and Memory set in Israel-occupied Palestine

Share this Article What does a flag symbolize? Who decides the meaning conferred upon a flag as a nation’s symbol? Is its meaning confined to the meaning given to the colors or symbols that characterize it? Does its meaning alter based on where a flag is flown? Alam (2022), which translates to flag, does not raise these questions directly but stimulates its viewers to formulate questions of similar nature on what and what not constitutes the underlying meaning and value of similar nation...

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How Hollywood Made J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI Into the Mythical G-Men

The display case outside J. Edgar Hoover’s office was not necessarily what President Roosevelt had in mind when he called upon law enforcement to "interpret" the problem of crime. But it was a start, a hint that Hoover was taking notice of the public interest in crime narratives and adjusting his self-presentation accordingly. Another clue came when Hoover began to push for a new name to replace the "Division of Investigation." Since the end of Prohibition, he had longed to break away from wh...