Reviewed by Kyle Johnson
I was a bit worried about Stephen King. Since the unfortunate accident in July 1999, where King was struck by a van, his work seems to have suffered a bit. Some of his stories didn’t appeal to me personally, and I had feared the worst when he announced his retirement in 2002. However, King has risen from the ashes like the mythical phoenix, and has been on a roll ever since. He purchased the van that hit him and personally saw to its demise; strangely enough, the man driving the van died in his sleep on King’s birthday. (more…)
THE LAST KING OF SCOTLAND (Fox Searchlight Pictures)
Based on the novel by Giles Foden
Directed by Kevin Macdonald, screenplay by Peter Morgan & Jeremy Brock; staring Forest Whitaker (as Idi Amin), James McAvoy, Kerry Washington, and Gillian Anderson. RELEASE DATE: September 27, 2006 (select cities) (more…)
by Mary Gaitskill
Alison and Veronica meet amid the nocturnal glamour of 1980s New York: One is a young model stumbling away from the wreck of her career, the other an eccentric middle-aged office temp. Over the next twenty years their friendship will encompass narcissism and tenderness, exploitation and self-sacrifice, love and mortality. Moving seamlessly from present and past, casting a fierce yet compassionate eye on two eras and their fixations, the result is a work of timeless depth and moral power. (more…)
by John Twelve Hawks
In London, Maya, a young woman trained to fight by her powerful father, uses the latest technology to elude detection when walking past the thousands of surveillance cameras that watch the city. In New York, a secret shadow organization uses a victim’s own GPS to hunt him down and kill him. In Los Angeles, Gabriel, a motorcycle messenger with a haunted past, takes pains to live “off the grid” — free of credit cards and government IDs. Welcome to the world of The Traveler — a world frighteningly like our own. (more…)
In an Adventure with Scientists
& In an Adventure with Ahab
by Gideon Defoe
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