Still, at the moment, I'm not really feeling the chill anymore, but that doesn't mean that this is a bad film. Well, I say that now, but after this film cools-down in my memory, I'm gonna think back to that scene in "Hannibal" where he casually escorts a strapped-down man to a balcony, eviscerates him and then hangs him off of the balcony so his guts will fall out and think differently. Of course, Hannibal Lecter's an entirely different type of dark, so whereas everyone can get over Batman's cheesy backstory (As overrated as the "Nolan Batman" series is, I have to agree that I can get over that) Lecter's backstory completely dilutes the darkness, brilliance and mystery that made him so chilling. First it was Batman and now it's Hannibal Lecter. We have these awesome, dark, gritty characters who have served as brooding icons for many years and then we get a backstory that crowbars samurais in, from out of no where and then everything starts to corn up. Rating: R (Some Language|Sexual References|Strong Grisly Violent Content) An aptitude for science helps Hannibal gain acceptance to medical school, where he hones the skills he needs to exact revenge for the atrocities he witnessed. He learns his uncle is dead, but the man's mysterious Japanese widow, Lady Murasaki (Gong Li) welcomes him nonetheless. After witnessing the violent deaths of his parents at the end of World War II, young Hannibal Lecter (Gaspard Ulliel) flees to his uncle's home in Paris.
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He will explain what led him – alongside previous Reith Lecturer Professor Stephen Hawking to say that “success would be the biggest event in human history … and perhaps the last event in human history.” Stuart will ask how this risk arises and whether it can be avoided, allowing humanity and AI to coexist successfully. Referencing the representation of AI systems in film and popular culture, Professor Russell will examine whether our fears are well founded. He outlines the definition of AI, its successes and failures, and the risks it poses for the future. In this lecture he reflects on the birth of AI, tracing our thinking about it back to Aristotle. Stuart Russell explores the future of Artificial Intelligence and asks how can we get our relationship with it right? Professor Russell is founder of the Centre for Human-Compatible Artificial Intelligence at the University of California, Berkeley. It lends itself really well to the RH format. This book had enough plot to hinge the whole thing together, and it was great to see how CM has re-imagined Lewis Carroll’s classic. She laughs, his husky, throaty sound that makes my skin pebble with goose bumps. We might be pirates and thieves and all-around assholes, but we're not stupid enough to drink saltwater, missy. Cue a romp through dark and dangerous Underland. He sets a glass of water in front of me and when I reach out and bring it to my nose for a sniff, Lory laughs. Unlike the original, she falls madly in lust with most (if not all) of said weird individuals. Much like in the original, Allison falls down a rabbit hole, consumes items of dubious origin, and has run-ins with a number of weird and wacky individuals. So this is the Alice in Wonderland retelling only some of us knew we wanted. I just want to escape this place and go … home. So if you’re reading this, will you help me? There’s me, Allison, and there are the men that want me, the enemies that hunt me, and the darkness that’s quickly rolling in. Violence, sex, drugs, and magic … that’s all there is in this place. In those books, the characters weren’t all male, attractive, and interested in me.įorget everything you know about the Mad Hatter, the White Rabbit, the March Hare … And get this-this is the part you’ll never believe-I fell down a rabbit hole.Įxcept in those books, there wasn’t blood everywhere. "Did you really think a sword could save anyone? Swords do not save. Guinevere has been a changeling, a witch, a queen-but what does it mean to be just a girl? To undo the mistakes of the past.even if it means destroying herself. Guinevere is determined to set things right, whatever the cost. When Guinevere makes an agonizing discovery about who she is and how she came to be, she finds herself with an impossible choice: fix a terrible crime, or help prevent war. Vowing to unravel the truth of her past with or without Merlin’s help, Guinevere joins forces with the sorceress Morgana and her son, Mordred-and faces the confusing, forbidden feelings she still harbors for him. But the greatest danger isn’t what lies ahead of Guinevere-it’s what’s been buried inside her. Behind her are Lancelot, trapped on the other side of the magical barrier they created to protect Camelot, and Arthur, who has been led away from his kingdom, chasing after false promises. While journeying north toward the Dark Queen, Guinevere falls into the hands of her enemies. The gripping conclusion to the acclaimed Arthurian fantasy trilogy from New York Times bestselling author Kiersten White finds Guinevere questioning everything-friends and enemies, good and evil, and, most of all, herself. He has written the rare kind of book that can be read in one sitting but will keep you coming back to help regain your bearings. This American writer leaves us with no illusions about ourselves." - Svetlana Alexievich, Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature "Timothy Snyder reasons with unparalleled clarity, throwing the past and future into sharp relief. On Tyranny is a call to arms and a guide to resistance, with invaluable ideas for how we can preserve our freedoms in the uncertain years to come. Our one advantage is that we might learn from their experience. We are no wiser than the Europeans who saw democracy yield to fascism, Nazism, or communism. Today, our political order faces new threats, not unlike the totalitarianism of the twentieth century. He has written the rare kind of book that can be read in one sitting but will keep you coming back to help regain your bearings."-Masha Gessen The Founding Fathers tried to protect us from the threat they knew, the tyranny that overcame ancient democracy. #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A "bracing" ( Vox ) guide for surviving and resisting America's turn towards authoritarianism, from "a rising public intellectual unafraid to make bold connections between past and present" ( The New York Times ) "Timothy Snyder reasons with unparalleled clarity, throwing the past and future into sharp relief. During the First World War, she worked at a hospital as a nurse later working at a hospital pharmacy, a job that influenced her work, as many of the murders in her books are carried out with poison. The Millers had two other children: Margaret Frary Miller (1879–1950), called Madge, who was eleven years Agatha's senior, and Louis Montant Miller (1880–1929), called Monty, ten years older than Agatha.īefore marrying and starting a family in London, she had served in a Devon hospital during the First World War, tending to troops coming back from the trenches. She is the creator of two of the most enduring figures in crime literature-Hercule Poirot and Miss Jane Marple-and author of The Mousetrap, the longest-running play in the history of modern theatre.Īgatha Mary Clarissa Miller was born in Torquay, Devon, England, U.K., as the youngest of three. According to Index Translationum, she remains the most-translated individual author, having been translated into at least 103 languages. Her books have sold over a billion copies in the English language and a billion in translation. She wrote 66 crime novels and story collections, fourteen plays, and six novels under a pseudonym in Romance. Agatha Christie also wrote romance novels under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott, and was occasionally published under the name Agatha Christie Mallowan.ĭame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie is the best-selling author of all time. Rather, I want to know what it is about Peter Pan that has so attracted filmmakers including Lowery, Joe Wright, Steven Spielberg, and Benh Zeitlin, particularly because beneath the childlike veneer of the story lie much darker truths, ones that contradict the ostensible message of the character. The film’s individual badness, though, isn’t what I’m interested in. This is particularly unfortunate when it comes to Neverland, which ought to be an enchanting place. Though Lowery maintains the compositional skill he’s shown in previous films like The Green Knight and The Old Man & the Gun, and though some of the visuals are striking, the film has no firm hold in a tangible space, as the scenes are either CGI or green-screened. Why do we keep going back to this well?Īlthough this latest adaptation is mostly a retread that adds little to the pantheon of Pans, it does offer-inadvertently perhaps-a crucial insight into something that’s always puzzled me about the character. Barrie’s children’s tale in those years has been a critical and commercial disaster. Hell, how about just the past 30 or so years? Every cinematic adaptation of J.M. As I suffered through David Lowery’s Peter Pan & Wendy on Disney+, I kept wondering what it is about this character that has kept him alive for more than a century. Some 10 000 railway cars, stocked with supplies for the front, were bottled up in the Moscow marshalling yards. One of Boyle's most astonishing feats occurred shortly after the Bolshevik takeover in November 1917. Boyle took command of the transportation system on the southwestern front, boldly taking control of troops in a desperate situation at Tarnapol, an action for which he was decorated in the field by the Russian commander. By mid-1917 Russian transportation was in chaos and the whole country was spiraling into revolution. Too old for active duty, he got himself appointed to conduct a private mission to Russia's provisional Kerensky government. He raised and equipped a machine gun company at his own expense. When war broke out in 1914 Boyle predictably sprang into action. He also found time to spend some of his boundless energy escorting a rag-tag crew of hockey players to Ottawa to challenge for the Stanley Cup. Boyle laid claim to a huge stretch of the Klondike River and made a fortune not only in gold but in sawing timber and generating electric power. The two men made their way to Juneau, Alaska, and were among the first to travel the White Pass route to the Klondike. On his return he started a freighting business, got married and left it all to go on the road promoting an Australian boxer, Frank Slavin. At age 17 he went to New York with his father and hopped an outbound ship, spending three years at sea. Born in Toronto in 1867 and raised in Woodstock, Ont., Joe Boyle was an extraordinarily restless young man. The story is about Morgan, an orphan kitten, who finds his home at a famous London publishing house and is inspired by a real-life cat who really did make his home in the Faber and Faber offices and was the inspiration for one of the poems in T S Eliot’s Old Possums Book of Practical Cats. Back to The Book Cat though…This equally charming book is set in London during the World War Two during the Blitz. If you haven’t come across any of the books they have collaborated on yet, this one will be a fantastic one to start with that I am sure will lead you onto seeking more including the charming collection of illustrated stories they created together about the friendship between Mango, a little girl, and Bambang, an Asian tapir. This is as delightful a read as we have come to love from the dream team of Polly Faber and Clara Vulliamy. I love that this is an interesting take on the counting book. It’s just such a charming book that centers around a family coming together to make a meal. Even now that I’ve tucked the board books into a basket and most don’t see the light of day, this one comes out from time to time (I make sure to pull it out around Thanksgiving). We have had this book on our home library shelves for several years now and it’s always a favorite. Lively read-aloud text paired with bright collage illustrations. I’m falling down here on the #100daysproject! I was waiting for a couple books to come into the library and they haven’t yet, so I’m going to finish up my challenge with some oldies, but goodies.Ī Feast For 10 written and illustrated by Cathryn Falwellįrom Goodreads: A counting book that features an African-American family shopping for food, preparing dinner, and sitting down to eat. |