formerly, and maybe again, at faceyouhate. Literary critic at billryan64.substack.com/, film and usually horror fiction critic frequently @bulwarkonline
My new, free to all, Reading Project post is up. In this one, I cover Hugh Fleetwood's nasty supernatural-or-is-it thriller AN ARTIST AND A MAGICIAN, and Richard Ford's breakthrough short story collection ROCK SPRINGS. Link in replies.
The weirdest meats I've eaten aren't that weird. Alligator. Entrails. Tongue. Beef tartare. Haggis. Blood pudding. Could have had camel once but didn't want to spend the money.
i've wanted to try horse ever since the time freshman year when i said to my Romanian roommate "I'm so hungry I could eat a horse" and he said "you ever had horse?"
As it's Skarsgård's birthday I became curious about what Erik Skjoldbjærg, director of INSOMNIA was up to. Swedish TV mostly. Never knew he directed PROZAC NATION.
Making me nostalgic for the time I said that I liked Nolan's INSOMNIA and was therefore told by many strangers that the original was better. Which even if I agreed (been too long to compare accurately) would be immaterial to my enjoyment of Nolan's film.
Robert F. Kennedy stopping for a meal at a drive-in in Bluefield, West Virginia during the campaign for his brother John F. Kennedy to become the 1960 Democratic presidential nominee.
My new, free to all, Reading Project post is up. In this one, I cover Hugh Fleetwood's nasty supernatural-or-is-it thriller AN ARTIST AND A MAGICIAN, and Richard Ford's breakthrough short story collection ROCK SPRINGS. Link in replies.
this was so thrilling to see in the theater. I don't care how silly the "swing away" business is, it works like gangbusters. one of Gibson's best performances. sorry, it's true!