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Ioanna Papadopoulou’s The Castaway and the Witch

I had a genuine “oh shit” moment when I read the author’s preface saying this was darker than “Winter Harvest” because – and I absolutely ADORED “Winter Harvest” – that was pitch-black dark. I thought “we’re all going to die”. This maybe has something to

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The Path You Have to Sing

Alexis Wright‘s Carpentaria, an epic work set in a fictional town called Desperance, opens before there are any people in it at all: an ancestral serpent, “a creature larger than storm clouds,” descends from the stars and drags itself across the wet clay of the

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But for pursuit of virtue and of knowledge

I’m sure you’ve read enough analysis of Nolan’s Odyssey to last a lifetime, and you don’t need another European ranting that he changed stuff, so I’m not going to. Instead, I’d like to talk about the movie in itself, as an independent work, granting the

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6 Comments
  • ragnorosso
    Posted at 13:35h, 28 June Reply

    guarda, i primi due mi sembrano belli pallosi (più che altro per il vecchio principio “acclamato dalla critica=pizzoso”), il 4° che è? un film su quelle z***ole che facevano il telefilm? insomma alla fine resta il 3° che penso sia pure il migliore

  • impbianco
    Posted at 15:08h, 28 June Reply

    … è morto Michael Turner… l’ho appena letto su Comicus… comunque io non vedrei nessuno di quei film, vediti Hulk!

    X-Bye

  • Damiani
    Posted at 15:48h, 28 June Reply

    il Divo!!!

  • Shelidon
    Posted at 17:30h, 29 June Reply

    @ ragno: caspita, che metro di giudizio oggettivo e ponderato! Alla fine siamo andati a vedere proprio quello: una boiata atroce.

    @ impbianco: Hulk neanche morta. Riguardo alla brutta notizia, l’ho saputo: un duro colpo.

    @ Damiani: purtroppo i miei compagni di cinema l’avevano già visto.

  • contenebbia
    Posted at 15:46h, 03 July Reply

    Quando hai di codesto dubbi, mon tresor, bussa ai cancelli di Carfax!

  • Shelidon
    Posted at 15:59h, 03 July Reply

    Caro Conte, avete proprio ragione: scelte così da sola non ne devo più fare.

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