5/10/2023 0 Comments A pocketful of rye marple![]() ![]() Overall it's a solid, traditional version. I loved the cameo from Prunella Scales, what a legend she is. the Crumps are just joyful, verging on being caricatures but they pull it off so much fun, the much missed Wendy Richard and Ken Campbell, who could forget Roger from Fawlty Towers. Liz White is excellent as is Matthew Macfadyen. As for the rest of the cast, I'm a big fan of Rupert Graves, I find his extremely charismatic and very watchable, I liked very much his interpretation of Lance Fortescue. I didn't really identify McEwan in the same way, although I loved her performances. Joan will always be the character naturally, but Julia is actually rather wonderful, having read all of the Miss Marple novels I have a mental picture of what I believe her to look like and how I'd expect her to behave, mannerisms etc, and Julia hits the mark incredibly well, there seems a softer side to her. I'll start with Miss Marple herself, I was a fan of Geraldine, I liked the sparky twinkle in the eye that she had, she was sweet and tough at the same time. ![]() The focus for this episode is the characters, not gimmicks. After doing Geraldine McEwan a huge injustice in Nemesis, sending her out of a hatchet job of a script, it became clear there was an effort to strip the episode back, and pick out the core of what Christie did so well. ![]()
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5/9/2023 0 Comments Snyder timothy on tyranny![]() ![]() So I've spent the last 25 years writing, as you say, these books about how regimes change and about how political atrocities are committed. I'm a historian of Eastern and central Europe. ![]() I'm an American, but I'm not a historian of the United States. I would call it an arrival, an arrival back into the United States. SNYDER: Well, you just called it a departure. It is a slim, almost pocket-sized work subtitled "Twenty Lessons From The Twentieth Century." Snyder writes out of concern about the rise of Donald Trump, and his lessons range from such personal instruction as stand out and establish a private life to more common political fare like listen for dangerous words and beware of paramilitaries. ![]() So the Yale historian's latest book called "On Tyranny" is a departure. Timothy Snyder has written some sprawling, compelling books about war, genocide and the descent into dictatorship in mid-20th century Europe. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Here, they share the rituals they use to resist self-doubt, grief, and depression in the face of sexism, slut shaming, racism, patriarchy, and other systems of oppression. What they have in common is that they’ve created personal rituals to summon their own power in a world that would prefer them powerless. A new Pew Research Center analysis finds that 79 countries and territories out of the 198 studied around the world (40) had laws or policies in 2019 banning blasphemy, which is defined as speech or actions considered to be contemptuous of God or of people or objects considered sacred. Some identify as witches, others identify as writers, musicians, game developers, or artists. While bound by a thread of magic, these are inspiring feminist writings for readers of feminist literature, however identified.” - Library JournalĮdgy and often deeply personal, the twenty-one essays collected here come from a wide variety of writers. ![]() These writers make clear that as witches, femmes, and queers, they will use their own strength, ingenious rituals, beauty routines, and spells to rise above and beyond the limits of racism/classism and objectifications set by a male-dominated society. "A fierce and voluble refutation of the patriarchy and its soul-crushing oppression of female power. ![]() 5/9/2023 0 Comments Cinematherapy by Nancy Peske![]() The channel produces episodes around 30-40 minutes long where a filmmaker and therapist, Alan Seawright and Jonathan Decker respectively, provide examples of using cinema therapy in practice. But everything starts with the deep intention that the filmmaker has when making the film"įollowing this, in 2020 a YouTube channel called "Cinema Therapy" emerged and reached 1m subscribers on 11 August 2022. In the end, the result of that process will be a medicine for all the viewers as human beings. Once the filmmaker and his crew engage in the process of filmmaking, they start healing by the revelation and situations that happen along the process of making a film. ![]() ![]() Gary Solomon, Anghelo Taylor wrote the CinemaTherapy Manifesto, that starts with one simple principle: "In order for cinema therapy truly exist the filmmaker must have an internal search, question or problem to solve inside himself but that relates with the rest of humanity or with specific community. The movement started to catch up again in 2019 with the featured documentary "Calypsonians" by director Anghelo Taylor, unlike the creation of Dr. ![]() 5/9/2023 0 Comments The getaway lucy foley![]() ![]() Delving into subplots of roommate drama, affairs, and extortion, Foley takes occasional detours from Ben’s disappearance. The pace is rather slow and focuses more on developing the personalities of apartment building’s inhabitants than on the main mystery at hand. Foley spends much of the first half of her novel unwinding the threads connecting each character to Ben and their potential motives for his disappearance. From the very start, every character has something to hide. ![]() Jess, a Londoner escaping her less-than-ideal job, arrives in Paris to stay with her brother, Ben, only to find him missing. A sinister apartment building and its inhabitants are the suspects in Lucy Foley’s newest novel, “The Paris Apartment.” A thriller with short chapters narrated by characters full of secrets, “The Paris Apartment” is quick to draw in the reader and will leave them hooked with anticipation. ![]() 5/9/2023 0 Comments Northanger abbey movies![]() ![]() Then there’s the Tilney siblings, Elinor and Henry (Catherine Walker, JJ Field), two people who live under the stern rules of a father who’s the subject of more than one gossip circle. There’s the siblings, Isabel and John Thorpe (Carey Muligan, William Beck), and this brings her elder brother, James (Hugh O’Conor) into the circle. While swirled into the society that is Bath, Catherine meets a series of people who impact her young life. She receives an invitation to accompany a pleasant but childless couple (Sylvestra Le Touzel, Desmond Barrit) looking for a companion. ![]() She also is quite pretty despite her inexperience in life. Northanger Abbey (2007) ITV Film Reviewīorn into an unremarkable but large family, Catherine Morland (Felicity Jones) grows to be a fanciful young woman. This is precisely where I found myself recently in re-watching Northanger Abbey (2007), the most recent adaptation of the classic. ![]() When it’s been years since you saw one of the adaptations from ITV based on an Austen novel, it’s always fun to go back and give it a re-watch. ![]() 5/9/2023 0 Comments Il sognatore by Laini Taylor![]() ![]() ![]()
5/8/2023 0 Comments The mother next door tara![]() They’ll do anything to protect their families. This year’s block party should be the best yet… until the women start receiving anonymous messages threatening to expose the quiet neighborhood’s dark past-and the lengths they’ve gone to hide it.Īs secrets seep out and the threats intensify, the Ivy Five must sort the loyal from the disloyal, the good from the bad. ![]() When a new mother moves to town, eager to fit in, the moms see it as an opportunity to make the group whole again. An influential group of neighborhood moms-known as the Ivy Five-plan the event for months.Įxcept the Ivy Five have been four for a long time. The annual block party is the pinnacle of the year on idyllic suburban cul de sac Ivy Woods Drive. ![]() ![]() ![]() For fans of Lisa Jewell, Aimee Molloy, and Joshilyn Jackson, an upmarket suspense novel from a multi-award-winning author about a tightknit group of suburban mothers who invite a new neighborhood mom into their fold, and the fallout the night of the annual block party, when secrets from the past come back to haunt them… ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() What a wonderful place to stretch a rope a wire on which to walk." Disguised as construction workers, he and a friend haul a 440-pound reel of cable and other materials onto the roof of the south tower. ![]() When Philippe gazes at the twin buildings, he looks "not at the towers but at the space between them. He loved to walk and dance on a rope he tied between two trees." As the man makes his way across the rope from one tree to the other, the towers loom in the background. The tallest buildings in New York City." The author casts the French aerialist and street performer as the hero: "A young man saw them rise into the sky. Gerstein ( What Charlie Heard) begins the book like a fairy tale, "Once there were two towers side by side. This effectively spare, lyrical account chronicles Philippe Petit's tightrope walk between Manhattan's World Trade Center towers in 1974. ![]() 5/8/2023 0 Comments Darren shan books lord loss![]() ![]() "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title. ![]() Debbie CartonĬopyright © American Library Association. A sneak peek at the second book in the series, Demon Thief, shows Shan continuing in the same vein but with different characters. It was originally published in the UK on 6 June. The plot rolls along at high speed, but Shan is still quite adept when it comes to capturing Grubbs' roller-coaster emotions-loss and grief and, later, trust. Older fans of Shans gory, gripping Cirque du Freak series will welcome this first book in the Demonata series, which features a similar horrific spin, dark humor, and graphic detail. Lord Loss is the first novel in the Demonata series written by best-selling teenage horror author Darren Shan. Eventually, he is taken in by his uncle Dervish, discovers a cousin he never knew, and, alas, learns that lycanthropy runs in the family. Not surprisingly, he ends up in a mental institution, completely derailed by the horror he has seen and experienced. Grubbs is attacked by Lord Loss' familiars, marvelously creepy hybrid creatures, and to his great astonishment, he manages to escape. ![]() Grubitsch Grady ("Grubbs" for short) walks into his parents' bedroom to find his mother, father, and older sister torn to pieces by Lord Loss, a powerful demon that feeds on human pain and suffering. ![]() Older fans of Shan's gory, gripping Cirque du Freak series will welcome this first book in the Demonata series, which features a similar horrific spin, dark humor, and graphic detail. ![]() |