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John Grisham is generally considered to be the gold standard of the legal thriller. The Street Lawyer is his ninth novel, and like his other work was critically well received, and almost guaranteed to be made into a blockbuster film, or at the...

George Chauncey completed his Ph.D. in history at Yale University. He's currently a professor of history at Columbia University, continuing the work of his grad school education after a brief period teaching at Yale. He's particularly interested...

Jorge Luis Borges: Poetry is a collection of the several poems written by Borges. Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo, which is his full given name, was a novelist, writer, poet, translator and text critic that was born in the late 1800’s...

Despite popular belief, Badlands was not actually the first screenplay that Terrence Malick wrote; in fact he had previously worked as a screenwriter on a movie called Money in 1972, and again on his own screenplay Deadhead Miles the same year; in...

Reasons of State is a fictional political novel written by Cuban novelist Alejo Carpentier, and published in 1975. The novel is a very important piece of Latin American literature, as it captures the events of the times, which were mostly of...

Down to his last few hundred dollars and without a job, Taylor Sheridan went on a mad dash to produce as many quality scripts as he could before his family lost their home and went hungry. Flash forward to 2012, when the script (then titled...

Oliver Parker's 1995 adaptation of one of William Shakespeare's most tragic of tragedies is surprisingly loyal to the Bard's original plot, but leaves out much of the verbiage, replacing it instead with silent scenes that are not featured in the...

Imagine trying to cope with the changes both within yourself and in the world around you as you are turning eight years old; then imagine trying to cope when the older brother you look up to and depend on has an accident that forever changes his...

William Butler Yeats first began publishing collected volumes of poetry in the late 1880’s. He was still regularly publishing new and updated compendia until just a few years before his death in 1939. Scholars, academics, fellow poets and...

In 1959, one of the last of those 1950’s films about politicians and generals working together to create a strategy to stave off an invasion by aliens was released titled Invisible Invaders. The title characters manage to reach the earth safely...

Marguerite of Navarre was the sister of the French King Francois I and bore the title Queen of Navarre herself following her marriage to Henry II. Her legacy has eclipsed her celebrated who was not exactly a slouch himself. A vigorously productive...

The Removalists is a play by David Williamson, initially premiering in 1971. The play follows main ideas and themes of domestic violence, emphasizing its application to Australian society at the time, and the harmful effects that it has. Peter...

Parramatta Girls is playwright Alana Valentine's dramatization of the testimony of the girls imprisoned at the Girls Training School in Parramatta. The play frames the story as a reunion between eight of the inmates of the "school" nearly 40 years...

Broken Arrow is director Delmer Daves' 1950 film starring James Stewart as Tom Jeffords, Jeff Chandler as Cochise, and Debra Paget as Sonseeahray. The film follows Stewart's Jeffords as he tries to make peace between Apache Indians and settlers in...

Boyz n the Hood is Writer/Director John Singleton's debut effort. It was released in 1991 and stars Cuba Gooding Jr. as Tre Styles, Angela Bassett as Reva Styles, Laurence Fishburne as Jason Styles Jr., and Ice Cube as Darrin Baker. The movie...

In the early 1970s, an ethnic sub-genre of movies emerged known as "Blaxploitation". The films featured largely stereotypical black characters, and for this reason received considerable backlash, but despite this, Blaxploitation movies were the...

Maurice is a novel about homosexuality written by E. M. Forster. It was first published after several years of revision and work in 1971, a year after the death of its author. The book was initially written between the years 1913 and 1914, revised...

History of the Peloponnesian War is an historical recollection of the war between the Peloponnesian League and the Delian League, called the Peloponnesian War. It is also commonly known as a conflict between Athens and Sparta and their allies. The...

Written by author Carrie Ryan, Infinity Ring: Divide and Conquer (published in 2012) tells the story of three kids named Dak, Sera, and Riq and how they try to stop the Vikings from coming into Paris. When Dak gets captured he is forced to work...

Nashville is a musical comedy movie, starring the city of Nashville. The movie is both directed and produced by Robert Altman, and the screenplay is by Joan Tewkesbury. The movie was released in 1975 and is known for the heavy influence the music...

Saint Maybe is a novel written by the American author Anne Tyler. It was published in 1991 by Knopf, published in print with 337 pages. The book has elements of the genre literary realism, since that is the genre in which Tyler usually writes.

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In 1934 James M. Cain published his first novel, The Postman Always Rings Twice. The tale of illicit lovers fueled by sexual obsession and greed to murder the woman’s husband became a best seller and inspired three different movie versions before...

Akira is an animated Japanese movie that resides in the cyberpunk sub-genre because of its futuristic setting that juxtaposes an ever-advancing technological world with a human world that is fast degenerating and where social order is disappearing...

Shadowboxing is a collection of short stories that are connected through the main character; Michael. It is written by Tony Birch, who is an Australian poet, short story writer and novelist. Shadowboxing is Tony’s first book, and it was published...