The Bible Now, by Richard Elliott Friedman and Shawna Dolansky
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,…
Review Samples - Page 4
Reviewing is a separate art form in terms of writing. It takes on a different tone, format, and style compared to academic writing. Look at our review samples to get better acquainted with review writing.
Ghost in the Shell (2017)
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,…
How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia, by Mohsin Hamid
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,…
Richard II, Barbican, London
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…
Let the Right One in, Royal Court Theatre, London
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…
Coriolanus, Donmar Theatre, London
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…
Blitz as Seen in BLITZ: Fashioning ’80s Style, by lain R Webb
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…
Sybil
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…
An Archaeology Book to Change Your Life
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…
A Hierarchy Nevertheless
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…
Kairo (Pulse)
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…
Arrival
Movies about contact with aliens are so numerous that counting all of them would probably be an impossible task. Aliens abduct, scrutinize, infiltrate, devastate, enslave,…
Doom: A Videogame Review
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…
The Vvitch
In my humble opinion, the genre of horror movies is currently experiencing a severe crisis. This statement is true for the American film industry: the…
Dark Skies
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…
Dyatlov Pass Incident (Devil’s Pass)
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…
Haiku Commentary
spring breeze . . . a new nun shivers in the cloister © Marina Balmaceda Paredes We start with a kigo, or seasonal reference. A…
A Dangerous Method Review
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…
Cure
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 Martian
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 after…