Walk down the right back alley in Sin City, and you can find anything. In the world of Sin City, the politicians are criminals, the cops are criminals, and the criminals are criminals. The only people who aren’t criminals are the victims who are looking for someone to save them. The saviors of the people [...]
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“I’m coming out of this alive.” “Fast” Eddie Felson is the best pool player you’ve ever seen, and he knows it. He has worked his way across the country hustling every last dollar from a pool hall before he moved on to the next town. Now, the rumor is that he has made his way [...]
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay You’ll be able to spit nails, kid. Like the guy says, you’re gonna eat lightning and you’re gonna crap thunder. You’re gonna become a very dangerous (movie)… I know, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay isn’t a movie – yet. The script has been in development for [...]
“More inhumanity to man has been done by man himself than any other of nature’s causes.” – Samuel von Pufendorf In the future world of Panem, there is a yearly contest between the twelve districts. One boy and one girl from each district are selected to fight in the Hunger Games. It is an event that [...]
As Wichita Falls, so falls Wichita Falls. Charlie Arglist just did a bad thing. Well, good for him, but bad for other people. But if he isn’t quick to get out of town, it’s going to be real bad for him too. Unfortunately for Charlie, every road in and out of Wichita, Kansas is shut [...]
Adventures are all very well in their place, but there’s a lot to said for regular meals and freedom from pain. Tristran Thorn has made a promise to the love of his life: to find and bring back a star that they saw fall from the sky. Tristran journeys from his home, the town of [...]
The simple truth of life is that other people are as real as you. Briony considers herself to be quite the writer. All of her stories have order and everyone always lives happily ever after because in the worlds Briony creates, she makes all the rules. There can be nothing in Briony’s stories that she [...]
Stay gold, Ponyboy. Greasers and Socs don’t get along. The two rival gangs live on different sides of town, and they come from much different backgrounds. Greasers have slicked back greasy hair, and they wear jeans and t-shirts with leather jackets. Some might call them hoods. Socs have nice clean haircuts, wear dressier clothes and [...]
Do you ever wonder what kind of dining set defines you as a person? I am Jack’s swollen indifference. I work a job I hate, to buy things I don’t need, to fill up my filing cabinet of an apartment. I visit tragic support groups for people coping with terminal illnesses in order to treat [...]
Death is not an adventure to those who stand face to face with it. The entire world is at war for the first time, but not the last. We all know something about The Great War (World War I) and, depending on your level of knowledge about history, you are probably aware of the more [...]
