Showing posts with label Illuminative Links. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Illuminative Links. Show all posts

Sunday, January 12, 2014

Illuminative Links

Here's my latest (albeit ridiculously and unbearably short!) as Dr. Lulu at The Magic Lantern, Master of Suspense.

   
Hitchcock and Truffaut

Tuesday, May 7, 2013

Illuminative Links - Eros in Cinema

So, here is my review of Tunisian film, Halfaouine: Boy of the Terraces (1990, Arabic title: عصفور سطح – roughly translated “Rooftop Bird”), directed by Ferid Boughedir.

Saturday, March 30, 2013

Saturday, December 15, 2012

Saturday, July 14, 2012

Thursday, May 24, 2012

"Great" or "Greatest Ally"?

A great, great video..such great irony, and the host of this Danish program, Detektor, does not even have to work that hard, although his utterly brilliant and ironic looks are much appreciated. :)


Tuesday, July 5, 2011

Illuminative Links for Tuesday, July 5, 2011

"The Insidious Evils of 'Like' Culture": Neil Strauss reflects on the neurotic and unnatural attachment of online approval.

"Writer with a Cause": Martin Rubin on the often forgotten British author Winifred Holtby.

"Master of Moods, from Comic to Grim": Tom Nolan on "Stagestruck," the latest mystery novel by the British author Peter Lovesey.

Friday, July 1, 2011

Illuminative Links for Friday, July 1, 2011

"PTSD’s Trauma Symptoms Ring Out Through Ages": Michael Scott Moore on the history of the Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, and how even though the term PTSD may be modern, its effects most likely go back to the Iliad.

"Violent Video Games and the Rights of Parents": Archbishop Chaput weighs in on Supreme Court June 27, 2011 decision, Brown v. EMA, which struck down the California law banning the sale or rental of violent video games to minors.

"Is Equality Compatible with Natural Differences? (Or Does Equality Have to Be Engineered?)": Peter Lawler weighs in on the non-existence of gender at Sweden's school "Egalia."

"Stephen Colbert Gets FEC Permission to Form 'Super' PAC": in this mad world we live in, comedy and political responsibility and order are one and the same.

"Co-Dependent No More: The Second Conversion of St. Therese of Lisieux": Heather King on that terrible habit of being a people-pleaser, and how "we put ourselves first, in order to put ourselves last."