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- What’s New for the 26th of July:
- A Kinrowan Estate story: chicken pot pieces
- What’s New for the 19th of July: Charles de Lint’s Ottawa novels with a quote from Drink Down the Moon, Gary’s review of Nordic fiddle music, It’s Michele Walther and Irina Behrendt playing Aaron Copland’s ‘Hoe Down’ from his Rodeo album
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Midsomer Odd Things
- A Kinrowan Estate story: A Library and Its Librarian
- What’s New for the Fifth of July: Remembering Jane Yolen; some new Americana and jazz music; Fishing Blues
- A Kinrowan Estate Story: Recursive Loops
- What’s New for June 21: Jennifer Stevenson’s ‘Solstice’
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Turkish Coffee
- What’s New for the 7th of June: Foxes in literature, live Balkan music, comforting jazz, Americana jazz, and wonderfully weird fusion jazz; and John Fogerty live
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Bloodied Kings
- What’s New for the 24th of May: Gary’s Review of Elizabeth Bear’s White Space novels, iain’s review of the Lonely Signal Burns novellas by her, she reading her own story, ‘The Chains That You Refuse’, and I see Gary has some tasty music reviews fir us as well
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Our Greensward
- What’s New for the 10th of May: books reviewed by Jennifer Stevenson, music by Teddy Thompson, Americana music from all over, and some live music from John Fogerty
- A Kinrowan Estate story: A Walk
- What’s New for the 26th of April: the nature of Stories; some new and newish SF, plus new world, jazz, folk and Americana music
- A Kinrowan Estate story: A Spring Day
- What’s New for the 12th of April: Some new and recent SF; new Americana, Norwegian folk rock and jazz; and thoughts on War For The Oaks
- A Kinrowan Estate story: A Unified Theory of Libraries (A Letter to Anna)
- What’s New for the 29th of March: Beer and spirits, in song and text, some new Scandinavian fiddle music and jazz flute music, and more
- A Kinrowan Estate story: A Ghostly Librarian
- What’s New for the 15th of March: some DeLint stories for early spring; lots of polskas, Serbian folk rock, progressive jazz, and Nordic music from the archives
- 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
Category Archives: Film
BBC’s The House of Eliott
The House of Eliott is a British serial drama set primarily in London during the 1920s. The principal characters are the Eliott sisters, Beatrice and Evangeline, and their close friend Jack Maddox, a photographer who later turns film director – … Continue reading
Lorenzo DeStefano’s Los Zafiros: Music From the Edge of Time
There has been a re-awakening of interest in the music of Cuba. Even with its turbulent history, the island, which sits just 90 miles off the tip of Florida, was almost forgotten as the United States sought to ignore it. … Continue reading
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Tagged documentary, rock and roll, world music
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Ralph Bakshi’s Wizards
Sarah Meador wrote this review. I first saw Wizards at the strange age of 7, when a baby-sitter attempted to pacify me through video. On the afternoon lineup were a couple of Disney movies, a reel of old black and … Continue reading
Harold Ramis’s Groundhog Day
Kimberlee Sweeney Rettberg wrote this review. Bill Murray is good at playing jerks. This time, however, he gets to play a jerk with a future – a jerk who, for whatever reasons, is allowed to relive the same day over … Continue reading
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Tagged Comedy, contemporary fantasy, fantasy
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Anthony Horowitz’s Foyle’s War
Foyle’s War is an immensely popular British mystery series created and largely written by Anthony Horowitz, who also had a hand in screenwriting for Poirot and Midsomer Murders, two other British mystery series I also enjoy. The British commercial television … Continue reading
Acorn Media’s Midsomer Murders, Set 13
Damn, those were good! Indeed they were the finest set of Midsomer Murders in the span of the entire series. I’ve seen every one of them, courtesy of Acorn, which has released them all on DVD in the USA. I … Continue reading
Acorn Media Group’s Midsomer Murders, Set Eleven and Set 12
Bless Acorn Media for sending us these wonderful DVD sets as they become available! I remember all too well the exquisite torture of watching some of the earlier Midsomer Murders episodes, well larded with commercial breaks, on the A&E Network. … Continue reading
Jeff Evans’ Midsomer Murders: The Making of an English Crime Classic
As I noted in my review of the first set of Midsomer Murders DVDs, which Acorn Media has released here in the States: Midsomer Murders series is based on the novels by Caroline Graham, with scripts written by some of … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Film
Tagged nonfiction
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Acorn Media Group’s Midsomer Murders, Set 1
‘Every time I go into any Midsomer village, it’s always the same thing’, he huffs. ‘Blackmail, sexual deviancy, suicide and murder.’ – Detective Chief Inspector Barnaby in Midsomer Murders I first saw the Midsomer Murders series on A&E, the American … Continue reading
Reynold Humphries’ The Hollywood Horror Film, 1931-1941: Madness in a Social Landscape, and Steffen Hantke, editor’s Caligari’s Heirs: The German Cinema of Fear after 1945
Kestrell Rath wrote this review. There is a growing body of high-quality critical writing about the horror film, both classic and contemporary, and part of this criticism has begun to address the ongoing dichotomy between the often confused and disparaging … Continue reading
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Tagged fim criticism, horror
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