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If you pay any attention to both history and current events, it’s incredibly easy to start feeling like Sisyphus. Those with short attention spans and bad education tend to react to so much with newborn minds and adult eyes. But ...

With its deep layers of history, folklore, and fable that lie just beneath the surface of every building and landscape, Great Britain is a haunted land. As a child born and raised in south Wales I became deeply entranced by ...

Hudlin has enjoyed a long and prosperous career and now, thankfully, Hollywood is taking notice.

Hal Prince Remembering Company: Cast Recording (1970) With an interview with filmmaker D.A. Pennebaker We lost one of the giants of musical theatre recently, Hal Prince. Here is a piece on COMPANY: CAST RECORDING by Lee Gambin, who also interviewed ...

In the Realm of the Senses (1976) Ero guro nansensu or Erotic grotesque nonsense, is a Japanese art movement encompassing visual, literal, cinematic and even the musical arts. The name is quite self-explanatory, describing this eccentric movement perfectly, but still, ...

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 ...

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 ...