Month: September 2023

If there is a phrase to explain the enduring reputation of Valley Girl, a low-budget teen comedy released in early 1983 which pulled in fifty times its budget

It is perhaps emblematic of the international cross-pollination which gave rise to director Alberto De Martino’s 1976 police thriller that it is known under so many titles, Una

It is perhaps fitting that a writer of mystery and the uncanny should present a mystery himself in his own final act, Ambrose Bierce a witness and chronicler

A tragedy which overshadowed the life of Ippolita Oderisi, she was twelve years old when, driving at night, her father’s inattention to the road ahead of them resulted

Motor Gun Boat 1087, proudly serving in the English Channel during the latter days of the Second World War the under the command of Bill Randall, a tight

The loss of a human being is a grand but intangible event, particularly when it is sudden and unexpected, as was the death of Douglas Adams in May

A log cabin in the woods, a place to be alone and unreachable, for Ben to be undisturbed as he works on his novel, a thriller inspired by

The vampire as portrayed in media, particularly of western origin, of a very specific mythology with any deviations from that regarded merely as variations from that baseline expectation,

A night of celebration, the end of term high school gala in the snowy days in the lead up to Christmas attended by financier Giovanni Bernaschi, his wife

It’s a hard knock life for Jonquil “Jonny” Baptiste, her mother having vanished when she was a baby and living with her father Gene who has issues of