Anne Neville: Richard Iii's Tragic Queen
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Shakespeare's enduring image of Richard III's queen is one of bitterness and sorrow. Anne curses the...
Lord Strange's Men and Their Plays
Lawrence Manley and Sally-Beth Maclean
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For a brief period in the late Elizabethan Era an innovative company of players dominated the London...
The Third Nero: Flavia Albia 5 (Falco: The New Generation)
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Flavia Albia's day-old marriage is in trouble - her new husband may be permanently disabled and they...
Things That Happen: And Other Poems
Arunava Sinha and Bhaskar Chakrabarti
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Bhaskar Chakrabarti's poetry is synonymous with the romantic melancholia inherent to Calcutta. His...
Mortal Kombat (1995)
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For nine generations an evil sorcerer has been victorious in hand-to-hand battle against his mortal...
Bostonian916 (449 KP) rated Jojo Rabbit (2019) in Movies
Jun 27, 2020
I stand corrected on my initial assessment.
Jojo Rabbit is a hilarious take on the life of a child during Nazi reign in Germany. Adolf Hitler is represented as an imaginary friend of a young man who is coming into his own. I know, this seems wicked dark and awful at the same time. But the way that it's approached by the film makers creates an environment that educates and enlightens to the times that were lived by the people of Germany while making it a bit lighter so that it doesn't weigh down all of your emotions to the point of not being able to carry them.
There are some very serious moments and I wouldn't recommend watching with young children (that should be a given if you watched the trailer). However, it is well worth a watch, or even a second. The acting alone is worth a second look.
Graven With Diamonds: The Many Lives of Thomas Wyatt: Courtier, Poet, Assasin, Spy
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Learned divines despised it, sober heads ignored it, but for Henry, the beau ideal of chivalry,...
Vodka: A Global History
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A tasteless, odourless and colourless liquid, vodka is the most versatile of spirits. It can be...
Matthew Krueger (10051 KP) rated Dracula (1958) in Movies
Nov 5, 2020 (Updated Nov 5, 2020)
First Christopher Lee played as the creature in The Curse of Frankenstien, now he plays as Dracula. When you think of Dracula you think of Bela Lugosi and Christopher Lee. Christopher Lee played Dracula more times then Bela Lugosi. But both actors are iconic, legends and icons.
The plot: On a search for his missing friend Jonathan Harker (John Van Eyssen), vampire hunter Dr. Van Helsing (Peter Cushing) is led to Count Dracula's (Christopher Lee) castle. Upon arriving, Van Helsing finds an undead Harker in Dracula's crypt and discovers that the count's next target is Harker's ailing fiancée, Lucy Holmwood (Carol Marsh). With the help of her brother, Arthur (Michael Gough), Van Helsing struggles to protect Lucy and put an end to Count Dracula's parasitic reign of terror.
In the United States, the film was retitled Horror of Dracula to avoid confusion with the U.S. original by Universal Pictures, 1931's Dracula.
Its a excllent film.