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U.A. Fanthorpe was an English poet who graduated from St. Anne's College, Oxford. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and winner of the Queen's Gold Medal for poetry, Fanthorpe was highly praised for her work. Her most famous publications...

Bread and Wine is an anti-fascist novel, meaning that it looks down upon the system of totalitarianism, where one person is in complete control of the government and its functions. Originally published in 1936 in Switzerland, though in the German...

Much like its predecessor, Evil Dead 2 was critically and financially successful. On Rotten Tomatoes, critics approved of the film 98% of the time and audiences approved of the film 89% of the time. After giving the film 3 out of 4 stars,...

The History of the Franks is a comprehensive guide to the spread of Frankish culture throughout and up to the sixth century C.E. A large topic of the history is the Christianization of Western Europe, which was perhaps the largest event taking...

The play Bran Nue Dae was written by the Australian Jimmy Chi and was published in the year 1990. The play is meant to be performed as a musical and so it contains many musical pieces. Many attribute this characteristic to the fact that the author...

June, 1981. A director responsible for two of the biggest box office hits of the 1970’s has teamed up with the producer of a film series that changed all the rules of Hollywood filmmaking. Together, these two titans of Hollywood—the wunderkinds...

Ferris Bueller's Day Off was released in 1986 by Paramount Pictures. The film was written and directed by John Hughes and stars Matthew Broderick with Alan Ruck, Mia Sara, Jeffrey Jones and Jennifer Gray. It was produced by Hughes and Tom Jacobson...

"Would I have become friends with my father if I went to school with him?"

That question was the germ (courtesy of producer/co-writer Bob Gale) for a film that eventually became the science fiction classic Back to the Future (1985). Gale and...

If the general public was asked to list their five favorite romantic comedies, Rob Reiner's When Harry Met Sally (1989) would likely be on many of the lists. The Hollywood Reporter wonderfully sums up the feelings of those who love the film. In...

Before the release of 1999's The Matrix, directors Laurence and Andrew Wachowski (now Lana and Lilly Wachowski, respectively) were virtually unknown commodities. Their previous -- and first -- film, 1996's Bound, was well-received but made very...

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...

Badlands (1973) marked Terrence Malick’s first feature as a director, though it was not his first experience in screenwriting. Before this project, he had written Money (1972) and Deadhead Miles (1972). The disappointing handling of Deadhead Miles...

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...