Festen , Denmark / Sweden, 105 minutes Director: Thomas Vinterberg Writers: Thomas Vinterberg, Mogens Rukov Photography: Anthony Dod Mantle ...

James Joyce once said this is one of the best stories ever written, so Ernest Hemingway can’t really be blamed for saying it “might” be his ...

The Chambers Brothers were four brothers from Carthage, Mississippi, an unlikely pinpoint source of psychedelia. George, Joseph, Lester, and...

[spoilers] I like this story by William Hope Hodgson pretty well—certainly my favorite of his many seagoing stories I’ve read. It may be mor...

I finally caught up with the late installments in the Evil Dead franchise. Sam Raimi’s original trilogy worked itself into an inspired Thre...

I must say I am mystified by Mark Twain’s relationship with religion. I understand he despised it. Perhaps that’s too strong. He returns to ...

USA, 109 minutes Director: Martin Scorsese Writer: Paul D. Zimmerman Photography: Fred Schuler Music: Robbie Robertson, Ray Charles Editor: ...

The best part of Paula Mejia’s 33-1/3 volume has to be her enthusiasm for the band and album. That’s always there in these little books to s...

[ 2007 review here , 2011 review of “Cities” here , 2012 review of “Animals” here , 2014 review of Jonathan Lethem 33-1/3 book here ] I was ...

This story by Nathaniel Hawthorne is more of a literary affair than horror, as the Wikipedia article I looked up can attest. “Hawthorne writ...