![]() ![]() They’re all available online, though you’ll have to head over to YouTube for the more explicit titles, and each one has its own unique vibe. ![]() Whether it’s a feminist genre take on actual bloodlust, or a comedy about an erotic encounter where the two people never touch, these films celebrate the full spectrum of human desire. ![]() While mainstream Hollywood struggles to address human sexuality in any meaningful way, these four recently-released short films explore sex and desire with a refreshing playfulness. What’s more, younger and emerging filmmakers naturally have a finger on the pulse of more progressive ideas, ensuring a broader range of perspectives. Most filmmakers begin to craft their voices with shorts, and given the significance of making a strong first impression, the format encourages creative risks. With any luck, the new reality will broaden movie lovers’ horizons enough to include short films, which U.S. Audiences can now experience a wider variety of films online, opening a world of possibilities that will hopefully benefit smaller films. As film festivals pivot to the ever-shifting landscape of distribution and sales, the way we consume independent film is changing more dramatically than anyone could have predicted. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Is this vision her chance? Or is it already too late to avoid a devastating war? ![]() If only they can be interpreted correctly.Īs the people of Yonwood scramble to make sense of the woman’s mysterious utterances, Nickie explores the oddities she finds around town-her great-grandfather’s peculiar journals and papers, a reclusive neighbor who studies the heavens, a strange boy who is fascinated with snakes-all while keeping an eye out for ways to help the world. Her garbled words are taken as prophetic instruction on how to avoid the coming disaster. There, one of the town’s respected citizens has had a terrible vision of fire and destruction. War looms on the horizon as 11-year-old Nickie and her aunt travel to the small town of Yonwood, North Carolina. It’s 50 years before the settlement of the city of Ember, and the world is in crisis. ![]() ![]() ![]() An appointment at a doctor’s office with a view to sorting out the aforementioned missing hymen leads to a chance reunion with a criminally-minded old school friend (last seen setting another pupil on fire), and then the fun really begins. She’d rather hang out with her pet parakeet than nice Asian boys, but since her parents are desperate to get her married off to one of the latter, she doesn’t always get her own way. Successful, self assured but still living at home thanks to her Chinese roots and her over protective parents. ![]() Fiona Wu is a 28 year old lawyer living in San Francisco. If you think that’s an odd way to start a review, bear in mind that’s exactly how this book starts. Summary: A disturbing but at times hilarious book about an Asian-American lawyer trying to mesh two cultures into one, with a bit of crime on the side for kicks. ![]() ![]() ![]() As they travel across the war-torn country side they soon learn that there are more than just zombies to be fearful of, with law and order a long distant memory some humans have decided to take any and all matters into their own hands. The Talbots have escaped Little Turtle but to what end, on the run they find themselves encountering a far vaster evil than the one that has already beset them. Together they struggle against a ruthless, relentless enemy that has singled them out above all others. ![]() With them are Brendon, Nicole's fiancée and Tommy previously a Wal-Mart door greeter who may be more than he seems. In these pages, are the journal entries of Michael Talbot, his wife Tracy, their three kids Nicole, Justin and Travis. ![]() Mankind is on the edge of extinction as a new dominant, mindless opponent scours the landscape in search of food, which just so happens to be non-infected humans. The Talbot family is evacuating their home amidst a zombie apocalypse. This story picks up exactly where book one left off. ![]() ![]() Of the three books, it is (as Kieron Gillen writes in the introduction) “the most radical to modern eyes”. ![]() Book 1 is (like a great many of Moore’s stories) told through a sort of Clockwork Orange-y argot that you just roll with and work out as you go. So what did we find? Well, the three books are all tonally quite different. This particularly outing is a full colour edition (like the rest of 2000AD, the strip was black and white once upon a time) and that may be the hook for long time fans – but for this reader (despite having read a great many other Alan Moore books) this was the first time we’d dabbled in Halo’s world. ![]() What we have here is complete enough to serve as an intended thing in its own right. Originally, it was intended as a nine-book series in which we check in with Halo throughout each decade of her life, due to a dispute between Moore and Fleetway (the publishers) we only ever got to see three volumes – but we are not looking at The Mystery of Edwin Drood. “that would complement the pervasive flavour of cordite and carnage and which would give the reader something to clean his or her palate with in between the meat courses.” Halo Jones was intended by her creators Gibson and Moore to be something of an antidote to the more usual 2000AD fare of “guns, guys and gore” – “something,” Moore explains in one of the afterwords included here: ![]() Let’s start (in the spirit of Dragnet) with just the facts, shall we? The Ballad of Halo Jones was a comic strip that ran in the comic 2000AD between 19, in a series of five page instalments. ![]() ![]() ![]() She desperately wants to write this review. Her assignment is to review Classy Cakes, a dessert restaurant in New York City. Through a series of misunderstandings, she is then offered a job as a freelance food critic at the New York Standard newspaper. ![]() Soon after, she enters an essay contest in which she details her future life as a food critic. By some miracle, she doesn’t burn the house down, but her parents punish her with strict rules which include no more cooking and nothing more to do with food. ![]() Unfortunately, she sets the kitchen curtains on fire. One night when Gladys is alone, she gets out her dad’s blowtorch to put the finishing touches on her Crème Brulee. In fact, they don’t know even know about all the cooking Gladys does on her own. Much to Gladys’s dismay, they eat take out every night and never turn on the stove – they only use the microwave. Gladys Gatsby is only twelve years old but she loves to cook! She enjoys fine foods from around the world, and shops at a gourmet grocery store. ![]() ![]() ![]() She helps them find three smooth stones shown in a close-up, piled and teetering in the harsh winter light (an endnote explains that they form the shape of the sitting Buddha). Only a little girl, her cheerful yellow coat a beacon in the gray landscape, approaches them. Famine and other hardships have bleached the faces and hearts of the villagers the tea merchant, the seamstress and the carpenter whose closet bulges with hoarded vegetables all appear caught in Muth's vignettes as if by a photographer's flash. ![]() Three monks of varying ages stop at a village where hard times have made people suspicious in Muth's full-bleed spreads, even the houses appear to look down with disdain. The setting not only allows his evocative, impressionistic watercolors to play over mist and mountains but also affords an opportunity for Buddhist underpinnings. With the same aesthetic grace he displayed with Tolstoy's The Three Questions, Muth here transports a classic tale to rural China. ![]() ![]() ![]() In books 4-6 we have a new hero, Victor Sparspeeder - Victor is a troublemaker who is constantly landing in detention, supervised by none other than Master Yoda. Books 1-3 follow Roan, his crush Gaiana and their other friends. ![]() In the Star Wars Jedi Academy books, we meet several of the young jedi-in-training. Can the young padawans conquer the challenges of school and become true jedi? But nobody said jedi school would be easy! As well as mastering the force, the pupils have to manage their friendships, crushes, bullying and studies in a galaxy far, far away. Training under Master Yoda, Roan realises he may have more potential than he thought. Usually the Academy trains children from just a few years old, but they make an exception for this young boy from Tattooine. But things take an unexpected turn, as he is mysteriously denied a place at the school and invited to attend the Jedi Academy instead. Roan dreams of attending Pilot Academy like his older brother, father and grandfather before him. ![]() ![]() ![]() I think you'll see what I mean about the writing itself. I think that's the best way to judge whether you or your kids would like it. Take a look at the first couple of chapters in the "Look Inside" feature here on Amazon (the first few chapters are very short). Younger than that and they might not be able to appreciate the themes (such as what it means to be a parent, both for the child and for the adult), and older than that and they're probably onto edgier, more (what they'd consider) grown-up stuff. The perfect age range would be ten to thirteen. ![]() ![]() Kids seven and up should like Cosmic a lot- probably boys more than girls though. It's narrated by a twelve year-old boy and the writing feels natural and "right." I've read plenty of books where in reading it I can just feel the author saying "Eh, did you catch that? Aren't I clever?" Cosmic was not like that at all. What I WILL say is that the writing itself is some of the best I've ever read it's clever, funny and engaging, all without feeling even slightly forced. Suffice to say that the plot was intriguing, fun, and had plenty of surprises. (I read "grown-up" stuff as well as kids' stuff, because we have a seven year-old.) I won't bother with a plot summary here, because several other people already have, plus it's in the Product Description. I do a lot of reading and it's been a long time since I've enjoyed a book this much. ![]() ![]() These drop-in sessions are relaxed and give audiences the opportunity to be playful, creative and explore the themes of the show further. Join us for Stay and Play in the drama studio from 12pm – 2pm (after the first show and before the second). Jon Klassen’s beloved books, I Want My Hat Back, This is Not My Hat and We Found A Hat, have found a new life of their own live on stage.ĭownload the I Want My Hat Back Creative Pack But those that do like it are gonna really. The experience of reading I Want My Hat Back is somewhat similar to watching the comedy of Steven Wright: Like Wright’s work, Jon Klassen’s hilarious, deadpan picture book will be divisive. And there is only one hat.įollowing their hit Youtube series, and a sold out run at Little Angel Theatre, lockdown sensations Ian Nicholson and Sam Wilde are back, showcasing their trademark cardboard design across the UK on the first ever tour of I Want My Hat Back Trilogy! Best New Book 2011 Cybils Nominee Find it at: Schuler Books Your Library. And if you know any children at all, you will be reading. What if he never sees it again? WAIT! He has seen his hat.Ī fish has stolen a hat. the funniest book ever written and here is why: it is always funny, every single time you read it. ![]() |