Recent Columns

Writing From A Strange Land: The Imaginative Displacement of Margaret Mahy

by Karen Healey

15 March 2010

I come from fantasyland. To outsiders, it might be Middle-Earth, or Narnia, and (the Hollywood rumours say) Azeroth; exotic imagined locales. But it gets annoying to be enthusiastically complimented on the beauty of your country by the phrase, "It looks just like the movies!" No. The movie landscapes look like home.

Scores

by John Clute

22 February 2010

Peter Straub is a very well-known figure, with strong tastes, and the task he has undertaken in this very conspicuous and very sizeable (though not perhaps quite sufficiently vast) enterprise is a delicate one.

Revisiting Hitchcock

by Matthew Cheney

15 February 2010

Sometime last year, I decided to watch some Alfred Hitchcock movies I hadn't seen in a while, and also to fill in a few gaps in my viewing.

The Villain with the Heart of Flamboyant Evil

by James Schellenberg

1 February 2010

A look at the non-subtle antagonist in James Cameron's movies

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