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Saturday, December 31, 2011

Movie Review: Georgy Girl

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Labels: 1966 Film Releases, Alan Bates, Charlotte Rampling, James Mason, Lynn Redgrave, Movies, Short Takes, Silvio Narizzano

Friday, December 30, 2011

Movie Review: Horror of Dracula

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Labels: 1958 Film Releases, Christopher Lee, Hammer Films, Jimmy Sangster, Movies, Peter Cushing, Short Takes, Terence Fisher

Thursday, December 29, 2011

Movie Review: Cul-de-sac

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Labels: 1966 Film Releases, Donald Pleasance, Françoise Dorléac, Gérard Brach, Lionel Stander, Movies, Roman Polanski, Short Takes

Wednesday, December 28, 2011

Movie Review: Fair Game

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Labels: 2010 Film Releases, Doug Liman, Joseph Wilson, Movies, Naomi Watts, Political History, Sean Penn, Short Takes, Valerie Plame

Tuesday, December 27, 2011

Movie Review: The Curse of Frankenstein

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Labels: 1957 Film Releases, Christopher Lee, Hammer Films, Jimmy Sangster, Movies, Peter Cushing, Robert Urquhart, Short Takes, Terence Fisher

Monday, December 26, 2011

Movie Review: Rhapsody in August

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Labels: 1991 Film Releases, Akira Kurosawa, Movies, Richard Gere

Monday, December 19, 2011

Poetry Review: Sharon Olds, "Q"

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Labels: Contemporary Poetry, Literary Analysis, Literary Criticism, Poetry, Poetry Discussions, Sharon Olds

Sunday, December 18, 2011

Comics Review: Archie Goodwin, et al., Blazing Combat

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Labels: Alex Toth, Archie Goodwin, Classic Comics, Comics, Comics Journal, Frank Frazetta, Harvey Kurtzman, James Warren, Reed Crandall, Russ Heath

Saturday, December 17, 2011

Comics Review: Esther Pearl Watson, Unlovable, Volume 1

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Labels: Comics, Comics Journal, Contemporary Comics, Esther Pearl Watson

Friday, December 16, 2011

Comics Review: David B., Nocturnal Conspiracies: Nineteen Dreams from December 1979 to September 1994

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Labels: Chester Brown, Comics, Comics Journal, Contemporary Comics, David B., Salvador Dalí

Thursday, December 15, 2011

Poetry Review: "Saint Augustine and the Love Poetry of John Donne"

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Labels: Academic Papers, Civilization, John Donne, Poetry, Poetry Discussions, Saint Augustine

Wednesday, December 14, 2011

Comics Review: Peter Bagge, Other Lives

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Labels: Comics, Comics Journal, Contemporary Comics, Peter Bagge

Tuesday, December 13, 2011

Comics Review: Emmanuel Guibert, Didier Lefèvre, and Frédéric Lemercier, The Photographer

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Labels: Comics, Comics Journal, Contemporary Comics, Didier Lefèvre, Emmanuel Guibert

Monday, December 12, 2011

Fiction Review: "Father & Son, Master & Bondsman: The Hegelian Dynamic of Self-Realization in Baldwin's Go Tell It on the Mountain"

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Labels: Academic Papers, Fiction, G. W. F. Hegel, James Baldwin, Literary Analysis, Literary Criticism, Literature Discussions

Sunday, December 11, 2011

Fiction Review: "Proust vs. Plato: The Simultaneous Ascent and Descent of Saint-Loup"

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Labels: Academic Papers, Aristotle, Civilization, Fiction, Literary Analysis, Literary Criticism, Literature Discussions, Marcel Proust, Plato, Symposium
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