Cher john nicholas sparks5/10/2023 ![]() They were Ron and Russell Mael, aka US art-pop band Sparks, and Annette was very much their baby, from storyboard to script and music. ![]() ![]() Were they arthouse producers? Character actors? If the audience was left guessing their identity, after the film's rave reviews they were no longer in doubt. Arty and awkward-looking with a strange facial likeness, one has a pencilled-in moustache and thick glasses, the other a floppy 80s haircut. And beside them, two older men in penguin suits. On the red carpet, the creative team line up: towering ex-Marine Adam Driver and chic Marion Cotillard in a silver mermaid dress, with co-star Simon Helberg and director Leos Carax. At the Cannes Film Festival in July, the opening-night film, Annette, is about to be screened. ![]()
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Slash by Slash5/10/2023 ![]() ![]() Real models were made for the backgrounds of the short film, giving it an incredible look. "In the Stars" was made using CG/digital animation, but was animated to look like it utilized stop-motion elements. Los Angeles, CA linktr.ee/slash Joined March 2009 812 Following 3. Myles Kennedy & The Conspirators is out now. ![]() "In the Stars" evokes "Grave of the Fireflies" in many ways, and offers much more hope as the sisters come together. Slash (Slash) / Twitter Follow Slash Slash The official Twitter of Slash. One thing to note is how the different modes of animation blend together, whether it's the computer overlays, the stop motion core, or the 2D visions of the past (that are reminiscent of the Tartakofsky iterations of "The Clone Wars"), it's all a beautiful blend to tell a touching story. Fergie) Slash 23M views12 years ago Slash - 'Gotten' Slash 9.3M views10 years ago Cast - Phineas and Ferb, Slash - Kick It Up A Notch Slash 11 years. This is definitely a standout among the animated offerings of "Star Wars Visions." ![]() ![]() Watching the feelings of this history come alive in this story made it feel impossibly real and touching. Punkrobot is based in Chile, which is a country that has a deep history of having been colonized, suffering for over 300 years of Spanish rule, and then surviving a military coup in the 20th century under oppression. ![]() Eva chase shattered vow5/10/2023 ![]() I loved the Shattered Vow book in the latest Eva series. Shattered Vow is the first in a new urban fantasy series for those who love fiercely possessive men and fierce heroines fighting for what is theirs. ![]() I don’t know how to control it and if these men break me it could destroy us all. They have no idea the greatest threat might be the new darkness awakening within me. They really see me as a traitor and also a murderer, but they refuse to let me go now that they have me back. Except that the men I freed are hardened, bestial versions of the devoted boys I remember. Now I’ve finally broken through to save her. The only thing we could count on was each other… until our escape ended in one dead, the others were recaptured, and I was dragged into another nightmare. ![]() ![]() We were six Imprisoned, turned into monsters, and tortured with brutal tests of our hideous emerging abilities. ![]() Claimed by Evangeline Anderson5/10/2023 ![]() ![]() Lock wants to convince both her and his brother to complete the bond which will keep them together forever. ![]() Kat wants to find a way to dissolve the half-formed bond between them so she can be alone in her own head again. ![]() Now Kat and her twin warriors are on a quest-but they're all looking for different things. For if he lets anyone get too close, the unbearable pain he has already endured once may happen again. He too, hungers for Kat, but he hides his fear of rejection behind an impenetrable wall of angry sarcasm. The dark twin has a secret agony in his past-a tragedy he feels he and he alone is to blame for. Lock knows nothing can happen between them without his brother. But though he fell for her the moment he saw her, Twin Kindred are unable to mate a woman alone. Her curvy plus-sized body is the epitome of beauty on his home planet and her sharp mind makes her doubly attractive. Locks Tight, the light twin of the two, is already in love with Kat. And now she's on her way to their home planet, Twin Moons, to find a cure for the debilitating illness their unorthodox joining caused, when all she really wants to do is go home. Then she couldn't get their feelings out of her head. First she was forced to have a kinky mind menage with two of the hottest and most irritating men in the galaxy-Twin Kindred warriors, Deep and Lock-in order to locate her kidnapped friend. But there's nothing common about what's happening to her lately. She's a no nonsense girl with a commonsense approach to life. ![]() Pilgrim at tinker creek review5/9/2023 ![]() ![]() The result is an exhilarating tale of nature and its seasons. She unties a snake skin, witnesses a flood, and plays King of the Meadow with a field of grasshoppers. She tries to con a coot she collects pond water and examines it under a microscope. As much as Pilgrim at Tinker Creek is about science and the environment, it is also about how God works His magic in His mysterious ways. ![]() In the summer, she stalks muskrats in the creek and contemplates wave mechanics in the fall, she watches a monarch butterfly migration and dreams of Arctic caribou. ![]() Pilgrim at Tinker Creek is the story of a dramatic year in Virginia's Roanoke Valley, where Annie Dillard set out to chronicle incidents of "beauty tangled in a rapture with violence."ĭillard's personal narrative highlights one year's exploration on foot in the Virginia region through which Tinker Creek runs. “The book is a form of meditation, written with headlong urgency, about seeing.There is an ambition about book that I like.It is the ambition to feel.” - Eudora Welty, New York Times Book Review ![]() The second founding by eric foner5/9/2023 ![]() ![]() Today these amendments remain strong tools for achieving the American ideal of equality, if only we will take them up. ![]() Book Summary :An authoritative history by the preeminent scholar of the Civil War era, The Second Founding traces the arc of the three foundational Reconstruction amendments from their origins in antebellum activism and adoption amidst intense postwar politics to their virtual nullification by narrow Supreme Court decisions and Jim Crow state laws. The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution. ![]() ![]() ![]() Counting historic victories?from the fall of the Berlin wall to the Zapatista uprising to Seattle in 1999 to the worldwide marches against war in Iraq to Cancun in September 2003?she traces the rise of a sophisticated, supple, nonviolent new movement that unites all the diverse and fragmentary issues of the eighties and nineties in our new century. ![]() Hope in the Dark is a paean to optimism in the uncertainty of the twenty-first century. Offering a dazzling account of some of the least expected of those changes, she proposes a vision of cause-and-effect relations that provides new grounds for political engagement in the present. This exquisite work traces a history of activism and social change over the past five decades - from the fall of the Berlin Wall to the worldwide marches against the war in Iraq. Solnit reminds us of how changed the world has been by the activism of the past five decades. Hope in the dark : untold histories, wild possibilities by Solnit, Rebecca. This new, significantly expanded edition covers, among other things, the political territory of America and the world after George Bush’s re-election.Īcclaimed author Rebecca Solnit draws on her life as a writer and activist, on the events of our moment, on our deepest past, to argue for hope?hope even in the dark. Many readers were so inspired by Solnit’s book that they bought multiple copies to give to friends. When the first edition of Hope in the Dark was published in mid-2004 it gained an instant cult audience. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Honjin Murders can be satisfyingly read as a classic who-done-it, although through the lens of one of Japan’s most famous writers of the genre. The book’s narrator, who’s writing the novel years after the crime, is intrigued with the story in part because it seems to be a locked-room murder mystery, “a genre that any self-respecting detective novelist will attempt at some point in his or her career.” Instead of giving the reader the facts in the case up front, the narrator at first gushes about all the other existing mystery plots that might be similar to this one, name dropping the works of American John Dickson Carr and French Maurice Leblanc. ![]() All entrances locked, an ax is taken to a door, and the bride and groom are found dead, slashed and covered in blood, no murderer in sight. The family is woken up that evening by screams from the annex house that the newlyweds retired to earlier. On a snowy November day in 1937, Kenzo Ichiyanagi, the eldest son of a once-great family, marries Katsuko Kubo, a schoolteacher. ![]() Seishi Yokomizo’s The Honjin Murders, published in Japan in 1946 and now available in English for the first time, employs the plot tricks of early European and American mystery writers to tell the story of a rapidly changing Japanese society around the time of the Second World War. ![]() Going Under by Lauren Dane5/9/2023 ![]() ![]() Hurt and furious, Molly catches a television interview given by Meriel Owen, the head of Clan Owen, and knows that her skills as a public relations executive could benefit all witches. PURITY is “outing” Others publicly and Molly Harper, a PR guru is among those who is publicly named a witch and is summarily forced out of the PR firm that she founded. PURITY is sowing fear within the American populace and are working overtime to discredit Others. The fight has resulted in a number of human hate groups, led by PURITY, working to marginalize the rights of Others, and perhaps contain the Others in concentration camps. The fallout of the very public fight against the Magister is that humans have now become aware of the Others who have lived side-by-side with them for centuries. Clan Owen, one of the largest and oldest covens of witches in the United States is recovering from the horror of the Magister, a superpowered enemy that annihilated much of witch-kind, but was beaten back at the end of the last book in the series, Chaos Burning. Your Bound by Magick series is my favorite of your paranormal series. Kati A- Reviews Berkley / Paranormal / Recommended Reads 4 Comments FebruREVIEW: Going Under (A Bound by Magick Novel) by Lauren Dane ![]() Best served cold trilogy5/9/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Best Served Cold takes place in the year 579 AU two years after the events of Last Argument of Kings. I shouldn’t have doubted Abercrombie Best Served Cold was exhilarating, and it’s certainly superior compared to many grimdark books published now. I’ve postponed starting Best Served Cold, the first book in The First Law standalone trilogy by Joe Abercrombie, for almost a year now due to the reason that I thought it will pale in comparison to the first trilogy. Suffering drives us to achieve great things.” Published: 5th June 2009 by Gollancz (UK) and 29th July 2009 by Orbit (US)Ī magnificent tale of vengeance filled with bloody actions, betrayal, and humor. ![]() Genre: Fantasy, Epic Fantasy, Grimdark fantasy (This is a repost of an old review I wrote in July 2017)Ĭover art illustrated by: Didier Graffet & Dave Senior I have a Booktube channel now! Subscribe here: ![]() |