Review Samples

By Dolan Cummings In The Bible Now, Richard Elliott Friedman and Shawna Dolansky seek to bring the insights of their academic field, critical Bible scholarship,…

Cyberpunk science fiction has not been a popular genre during the last decades. Originating from the novels by Philip K. Dick, William Gibson, Isaac Asimov,…

I am a great fan of Mohsin Hamid. The Reluctant Fundamentalist caught the post-9/11 zeitgeist like no other novel, and his debut book, Moth Smoke,…

By Miriam Gillinson Richard II was only 10 years old when he ascended the throne and this early rise to power is stamped all over…

By Miriam Gillinson An acid attack as a symbol of love. A girl whose skull cracks and bleeds, if she is not invited in. Countless…

By Miriam Gillinson A perfect engine, a human soldier, a “kind of nothing.” Coriolanus is a steaming cauldron of a role, a man as hot…

By Nicky Charlish What do faith and fashion have in common? At first glance, nothing. One is concerned with unchanging verities, the other with the…

The subject of mental disorders has long become a niche for all kinds of thriller and horror movies. Roughly 80% of movies dedicated to this…

By Richard Swan Very occasionally a book comes along that changes your life, in the sense that it alters your thinking and causes you to…

By Nicky Charlish Postwar British history has been a fruitful furrow for scholars to plough. After books covering a range of subjects from the New…

Perhaps no other country has produced as many horror movies as the United States—and no other country can call itself the motherland of the most…

Movies about contacts with aliens are so numerous that counting all of them would probably be an impossible task. Aliens abduct, scrutinize, infiltrate, devastate, enslave,…

Throughout the last two decades, videogames have made a huge leap forward in terms of graphic technologies, gameplay mechanics, realism, and immersiveness, turning from a…

In my humble opinion, the genre of horror movies is currently experiencing a severe crisis. This statement is definitely true for the American film industry:…

Movies about extraterrestrials never seem to be out of trend. For decades, if not centuries, the possibility of intelligent life existing on other planets excited…

There are thriller movies you remember a long time after watching. “The Silence of the Lambs,” “Psycho,” “Shutter Island,” “The Blair Witch Project”—these are just…

spring breeze . . . a new nun shivers in the cloister © Marina Balmaceda Paredes We start with a kigo, or seasonal reference. A…

I guess before reviewing “A Dangerous Method,” I should say at least a couple of words about its subject: psychoanalysis and people impersonating it. A…

If you watch movies filmed in different parts of the world, you might notice that each region, be it America, Europe, or Asia, puts its…

The last time a science fiction movie was released that did not look silly was when Christopher Nolan came out with “Interstellar.” Long before and…