Art, Culture, Literature

THE INVISIBLE MAN At first sight, The Invisible Man does not appear to be as deeply and obviously saturated with the overriding shared obsessions of the Fin de Siècle period as The Time Machine and The Island of Doctor Moreau. ...

THE ISLAND OF DOCTOR MOREAU Like The Time Machine, Wells’s 1896 romance The Island of Doctor Moreau is also deeply pervaded by the contemporaneous Fin de Siècle / Fin du Globe train of thought. The fact that it was met ...

The fin de siècle newspaper proprietor INTRODUCTION The term Fin de Siècle is more immediately suggestive of writers and artists like Oscar Wilde and Aubrey Beardsley than a figure such as H. G. Wells. The bulk of Wells’s prodigious oeuvre ...

Everyone is looking for those hints, tips, and tricks to help better their lives. Self-help gurus attempt to light the way by giving you condescension wrapped in a smiley-toothy blanket. Religious and political leaders often have the morals of whorish ...

Unless you’re a screenwriter, or aspire to be one, you probably wouldn’t know the name Alvin Sargent, but you certainly know his work.

Actress Marsha Mason is force of nature. Here is an incredibly gifted actress who fuels her characters with a believability that is palpable, honest, pure, poignant and intimate. There is something so genuinely unique in the way she takes on ...

Let’s just start by saying this is possibly my favourite Australian film – and that is a mighty big call, because during the 70s and early 80s, Australia really knew how to deliver fantastic genre films. A lot would be ...

Joe R. Lansdale has been doing big things for a lot of years now (he published his first novel, Act of Love, way back in 1981), and yet somehow it seems like he’s doing even bigger things now. The prolific ...

The Magic of Lassie is the first Lassie film in almost three decades, and although it doesn’t have the tender charm and elegance of the original masterpiece Lassie Come Home (1943) or later fare such as The Courage of Lassie ...

When David C. Hayes’ indie black-and-white graphic novel Rottentail was first unleashed on an unsuspecting public back in 2005, no one expected it to attain the immense and lasting popularity it has since enjoyed. But here we are fourteen years ...