All quiet on the western front author6/29/2023 ![]() It received a leading 14 nominations at the 76th British Academy Film Awards (winning seven, including Best Film) and nine at the 95th Academy Awards, including Best Picture, and won four: Best International Feature, Best Cinematography, Best Original Score, and Best Production Design. The film received positive reviews from critics, with praise directed towards its tone, the cinematography, the makeup, the performances, Volker Bertelmann's musical scores, Berger's direction, and its faithfulness to the source material's anti-war message. ![]() The film adds a parallel storyline not found in the book, which follows the armistice negotiations to end the war.Īll Quiet on the Western Front premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 12, 2022, and was released to streaming on Netflix on October 28. After enlisting in the German Army with his friends, Bäumer finds himself exposed to the realities of war, shattering his early hopes of becoming a hero as he does his best to survive. Set during World War I, it follows the life of an idealistic young German soldier named Paul Bäumer. Directed by Edward Berger, it stars Felix Kammerer, Albrecht Schuch, Daniel Brühl, Sebastian Hülk, Aaron Hilmer, Edin Hasanovic, and Devid Striesow. It is the third film adaptation of the book, after the 19 versions. All Quiet on the Western Front ( German: Im Westen nichts Neues, lit.'In the West nothing new') is a 2022 epic anti-war film based on the 1929 novel of the same name by Erich Maria Remarque. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Fantomah, mystery woman of the jungle, is “the most remarkable woman ever known”. Stardust the Super Wizard has a crime detector so finely tuned it can detect a single crime about to be committed on Earth. ![]() The answers to why packs of giant flaming disembodied hands are infesting the jungle will disappoint, yet there are so many bizarre offhand elements presented that most pages entertain. Plots are formulaic, dialogue expository, characterisation absent and yet despite all that, a unique personality escapes and the cascade of mad ideas render the stories fascinating in car crash fashion. The comics of the era demanded very little effort, and that’s what Hanks gave. There’s a temptation to consider this book a gigantic hoax: the king’s new clothes, with false clues planted across the web constructing an obscure cartoonist whose crude, yet spirited style represents a sort of ur comic artist.įletcher Hanks worked in the earliest days of American comics, already aged over fifty, with his last known work seeing print in 1941, after which little is publicly known about him other than what’s been uncovered by the curator of this collection Paul Karasik. ![]() Mildred taylor roll of thunder6/29/2023 ![]() ![]() Cassie has grown up protected, grown up strong, and so far grown up unaware that any white person could force her to be untrue to herself, could consider her inferior and treat her accordingly. ![]() And, too, it is Cassie's story - Cassie Logan, an independent girl raised by a family for whom independence is primary, a family determined not to relinquish their humanity simply because they are Black. It is a story of physical survival, but more important, it is a story of the survival of the human spirit. Set in Mississippi at the height of the Depression, it is the story of one family's struggle to maintain their integrity, pride, and independence. This is an extraordinarily moving novel - one you will not easily forget. JUVENILE FICTION / Historical / United States / General, JUVENILE FICTION / People & Places / United States / African American, Logan family (Fictitious characters : Taylor), ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() What’s special about them, to my mind, is that they didn’t accept the philosophy that was on offer to them, that they said, “There’s got to be something better than this. Together we explore the unique friendship and work of four women who changed the face of moral philosophy.īenjamin Lipscomb, guest: These women looking at what was happening in the world, were charged up about it, saw it as horrific, saw it as something that they needed to direct thought toward. I’m Christiane Wisehart, this is Examining Ethics and today I’m joined by the philosopher Benjamin Lipscomb. Mary Midgley, philosopher: We were all friends, and we tended to spend a lot of time together thinking about, “What’s wrong with philosophy at Oxford?” because we thought something was!Ĭhristiane Wisehart, host and producer: Although they didn’t set out to, the British philosophers and friends Mary Midgley, Iris Murdoch, Elizabeth Anscombe and Philippa Foot revolutionized the field of ethics in the middle of the 20th century. The Women Are Up to Something: Benjamin Lipscomb ![]() Stephen king a perfect marriage6/29/2023 ![]() ![]() The one movie King ever directed, and … well, you know, Stephen King is a wonderful writer who should probably stick with writing. (For the purposes of this list, we looked at theatrical releases only, and excluded Lawnmower Man, an “adaptation” so vastly different from the original that King sued to get his name off it.) With one notable exception, you’ll find the adapted movies turned out much like King himself: They got more serious and substantial with age. Nonetheless, with the latest King adaptation, The Boogeyman, now in theaters, we gave it the old college try. As his canvas (and reputation) has expanded over the years, his work has been turned into dramas, comedies, musicals, and even a Bollywood movie.īecause of this dissonance, ranking King movies is particularly difficult: The Mangler and The Shawshank Redemption barely seem to exist on the same plane of dimensional existence, let alone on the same list of movies. Sure, a lot of them are horror (certainly a lot of the worst are horror), but that’s largely because the boom period for King movies was the 1980s, when he was known solely as a horror writer. ![]() ![]() ![]() Stephen King’s work has been adapted so many times - sometimes by King himself - that it’s impossible to find a single unifying thread in all of the film adaptations. This story originally ran in 2017 and has been updated to reflect recent releases. Castle Rock Entertainment Sunset Boulevard/Corbis via Getty Images ![]() The guncle book cover6/28/2023 ![]() ![]() Oprah Daily's Best Beach Reads to Help You Escape But when his waggish set of "Guncle Rules" no longer appease Maisie and Grant's parental void, Patrick's eyes are opened to a new sense of responsibility, and the realization that, sometimes, even being larger than life means you're unfailingly human. Patrick has no idea what to expect, having spent years barely holding on after the loss of his great love, a somewhat-stalled acting career, and a lifestyle not-so-suited to a six- and a nine-year-old. ![]() ![]() So when tragedy strikes and Patrick finds himself suddenly taking on the role of primary guardian, he is, honestly, overwhelmed. That is, he loves spending time with them when they come out to Palm Springs for weeklong visits, or when he heads home to Connecticut for the holidays. ![]() Patrick, or Gay Uncle Patrick (GUP, for short), has always loved his niece, Maisie, and nephew, Grant. Winner of the Thurber Prize for American Humorįinalist for the 2021 Goodreads Choice Awardsįrom the bestselling author of Lily and the Octopus and The Editor comes a warm and deeply funny novel about a once-famous gay sitcom star whose unexpected family tragedy leaves him with his niece and nephew for the summer. ![]() How to Enjoy a Scandal by Adrienne Basso6/28/2023 ![]() ![]() With one unknowingly entangled in the estates intrigues, Gwendolyn has no choice but to stay close to Jason and try to distract him from the truth. Rumors may have ruined Gwendolyns social standing, but she has no intention of letting her sisters fall to the same fate. Smart, strong, and somewhat mysterious, Gwendolyn Ellingham brings out the best in Jasonas well as his most wicked desires . . . When one of them slips into his bed, Jason finds himself face-to-face with her sister . . . What he doesn't count on is the amorous attention of every eligible young lady in York. Now its Jasons turn to try his hand at redemption by posing as his brother to investigate improprieties at one of the family estates. Twins Jason and Jasper Barrington were once the wildest of scoundrels, but inheriting a title has reformed Jasper. Duplicity drives a Regency romance from the author with a gift for creating madness and mayhem in stories tinged with simmering passion and poignancy ( Romantic Times). ![]() Christina crawford mommie dearest book6/28/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() "If we just called her 'Mother' or 'Mommy,' she corrected us over and over and over again." ![]() " 'Mommie dearest' was a term of enslavement," says Christina, who is 58. Take the famous scene in which Crawford wakes up Christina in the middle of the night, demolishes her clothes closet and screams about wire hangers. But to go back and read the book is to remember that Christina's story is no joke. The unintentionally funny, thoroughly over- the-top film version, starring Faye Dunaway as Joan Crawford, became a camp sensation almost immediately upon its release in 1981. Crawford will also introduce screenings of the film at 10:45 p.m. "I run a bed-and-breakfast in Idaho and live on a 166-acre farm, so this is going to be quite a culture change for me," she said. Christina says she's looking forward to the event. ![]() Aquaman, Volume 3 by Geoff Johns6/28/2023 ![]() ![]() Johns has written for various other media, including episodes of Smallville, Arrow and Adult Swim's Robot Chicken, for which he was nominated along with his co-writers for an Emmy. He and his mentor Donner later co-wrote Superman: Last Son featuring the return of General Zod. After moving to Los Angeles, he became an assistant to Richard Donner, director of Superman: The Movie. Johns was born in Detroit and studied media arts, screenwriting, and film at Michigan State University. He is also known for transforming Green Lantern into one of the most critically and commercially successful franchises in comics. Johns is the author of The New York Times bestselling graphic novels Aquaman: The Trench, Blackest Night, Green Lantern: Sinestro Corps War, Justice League: Origin, Superman: Brainiac and Batman: Earth One which hit #1 on the bestseller list. ![]() ![]() Geoff Johns is an award-winning writer and one of the most popular contemporary comic book writers today. ![]() Mama, PhD by Elrena Evans6/28/2023 ![]() ![]() But I wondered if the school was on to something more, something we might only see with the passing of time. Walking into a second-grade classroom with an all-new peer group, having only finished kindergarten a few months before, was quite possibly the scariest thing she’d ever done up until that point. “And that was something that took courage.” “I think they picked ‘courageous’ because I skipped a grade,” my daughter said on the way home. But the word she was given was courageous. Joyful, caring, loving, honest, bright…I could think of dozens of other adjectives I would have chosen for her. But “courageous”? My daughter? It wasn’t that I didn’t think she was courageous, it just wasn’t the first word that would have sprung to my mind to describe her. The words had been chosen, we were assured, with much care and reflection…and not, as I had secretly thought, pulled out of a hat. ![]() ![]() As she solemnly shook hands with the principal, she was told, “You are courageous. My feelings on elementary school graduations aside, I was intrigued by the words I heard from the stage that night, and particularly the word the school had chosen to bestow on my daughter. “Who can find a woman of valor? For her worth is far above rubies.”Īt my eldest daughter’s fifth grade graduation, the teacher presiding over the ceremonies gave each child a word as they crossed the stage to receive their elementary school diploma. ![]() |