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- A Kinrowan Estate story: Hedge Witches
- What’s New for the 1st of March: Emma Bull’s War for The Oaks, Rosanne Cash’s ‘Runaway Train’, Johnny Cash at San Quentin, plus new Americana and jazz music
- A Kinrorwan Estate story: Cranachanh
- What’s New for the 15th of February: Some Seanan McGuire fantasy, Alison Bechdel’s latest, Pamela Dean’s Tam Lin; Nordic sounds, old time, Americana and Tex-Mex music
- What’s New for the 1st of February: Kage Baker retrospective; new Americana, Buddhist chants and Finnish songs, new and reissued jazz, and more
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Fireplaces in Kinrowan Hall
- What’s New for the 18th of January: World music and fiction by Amal El-Mohtar
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Bridges and Paths plus a Troll
- What’s New for the 4th of January: Favorite books and music of 2025
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Mythologist John Campbell
- What’s New for 21st of December
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Pub Ghoulies
- What’s New for 7 of December: books by Alan Garner, and holiday music new and old, Celtic, Americana, jazz and more
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Several Annies, Part Two
- What’s New for 23 November
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Several Annies
- What’s New for the 9th of November: rhymers and ravens, folk songs and folk tales, jazz guitar and dark forests and constellations put to music, Hungarian tunes and knights and rakes and tinkers and fools, and more
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Kedgeree
- Whats New for the 26th of October: some Patricia McKillip books and an interview, ’70s jazz reissues, Nordic Americana and American Americana, and some Samhain seasonal albums
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Charles and Alice Pay a Visit (A Letter to Owyn)
- What’s New for the 12th of October
- A Kinrowan Estate story: A Pudding Contest
- What’s New for the 28th of September: Appalachia in books, music and more
- A Kinrown Estate story: Autumn is Upon Us
- What’s New for the 14th of September: Books, film and music with a piratical theme; plus Corsican polyphony, Balkan sevdah, Americana music, Hardanger fiddle with reindeer, Latin jazz and piano trios
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Irish Coffee
- New SF from James S. A. Corey; Terry Gillian’s Excalibur; Rolling Stones do Aaron Copland’s ‘A Fanfare for The Common Man’; An offbeat history of coffee; an interview with Russian folk singer Zhenya Wind; and a grab bag of folk music
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Waltzing Matilda
- What’s New for the 17th of August: Lots of Cropredy reports and reviews, and some new jazz and Americana;
- A Kinrowan Estate story: A Hidden Dragon
Category Archives: Film
Apple TV+’s Murderbot, Episodes 1-2
The wait is over! The small screen adaptation of Martha Wells’s Hugo and Nebula winning book series The Murderbot Diaries began in mid-May (2025) on Apple TV+. Cutting to the chase: It’s good! The series opened with the first two … Continue reading
George Lucas’s Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith
This is it. The journey’s over. There’s no more new ground to cover, movie-wise. The new trilogy is officially at an end. Almost anyone who has more than a passing interest in these films has seen this movie already, most … Continue reading
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Tagged science fiction, Star Wars
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George Lucas’s Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, a man took a whole slew of mythic elements and cultural themes, and wove them into one of the great stories of the 20th Century. The farm boy, ignorant of … Continue reading
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Tagged science fiction, Star Wars
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Ernst Reijseger, Tenore e Cuncordu de Orosei, and Mola Sylla’s Requiem For A Dying Planet
Rarely have I learned as much when preparing to write a review as I have learned because of this album. Not only is this the most beautiful recording I’ve heard in years, listening to and learning about it has been … Continue reading
Posted in Film, Music
Tagged soundtrack
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Roddy McDowall’s Tam Lin, a.k.a., The Devil’s Widow
Lahri Bond wrote this review. Visitors to this website may well be familiar with the famous Scottish Borders legend of Tam Lin. The original ballad, though ancient, was in the collections of both Robert Burns and Sir Walter Scott, as … Continue reading
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Tagged fairy tales, Tam Lin
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Jean Cocteau’s La Belle et la Bete
Jean Cocteau’s sumptuous black and white retelling of this beloved fairy tale is inarguably the finest version committed to celluloid. Drawing heavily from Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont’s 18th century written version, Cocteau wrote La Belle et la Bete’s story and … Continue reading
Anthony Bourdain’s No Reservations: Iceland Special Edition
Joseph Thompson wrote this review. In January 2010 Anthony Bourdain may possibly have visited my favorite bar. I say “possibly” because his trip to Portland, Maine, won’t air on the Travel Channel until 12 April 2010, a few months after … Continue reading
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Tagged food and drink
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James Mangold’s A Complete Unknown
A lot has been said and written about A Complete Unknown, pretty much all of it of it good. There are so many ways for a movie like this to go wrong, and director James Mangold seems to have avoided … Continue reading
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Tagged Americana music, folk music, rock and roll
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Anthony Harvey’s The Lion in Winter (1968), and Andrei Konchalovsky’s The Lion in Winter (2003)
Aurora White wrote this review. In 1968 MGM Studios teamed up with James Goldman to adapt his play The Lion in Winter for the screen. Goldman’s play had been a recent flop, running for a mere eighty-three performances on Broadway … Continue reading
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Tagged English history, film, historical fiction
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Various artists’ Gods and Generals Original Soundtrack
The epic film Gods and Generals was based on the novel of the same name by Jeff Shaara. It told the story of the War Between the States from 1861 til 1863, just before the battle of Gettysburg. Shaara had … Continue reading