Blinks: Obama’s summer reading; HPL in Providence; review of Colson Whitehead

August 15, 2016August 17, 2017 admin

» ABC News: Barack Obama’s summer reading list includes Stephenson’s Seveneves and Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad

» NY Times Travel: How to Find the Spirit of H.P. Lovecraft in Providence

» NY Times Book Review: Juan Gabriel Vásquez reviews Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad

Films

Spidey International: Josh Pearce and Arley Sorg Discuss Spider-Man: Far From Home

July 19, 2019 locusmag 0

Josh: Right off the bat — I really like this movie. Arley: Fun movie! You should see it. See it in theaters. The continuing adventures of Tom Holland’s Spider-Man! Peter Parker’s class goes on a science trip to Europe, where he plans to confess his feelings for MJ (Zendaya) at the top of the Eiffel Tower. Plans get derailed, however, when Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) shows up alongside the

Roundtable

Weston Ochse Guest Post–“Found Footage Fiction”

December 12, 2018 Alvaro Zinos-Amaro 0

Despite the earlier revolting Cannibal Holocaust in 1980, The Blair Witch Project firmly established found footage as a film genre in1999. The shaky-cam unreliable narrator film about three students who disappeared in a Pennsylvania forest opened the door for the immensely popular Paranormal Activity franchise. Seeing events unfold on a second internal screen somehow made them feel more real to the viewer. The horror we felt while watching was predicated

Commentary Features

2017 Year-in-Review by Adrienne Martini and Tom Whitmore

March 10, 2018 locusmag 0

Roundtable

once more into the breach, dear friends

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