Casa editrice: Tales of Terror
Steve Hutchison reviews 300 horror fantasy films and ranks them. Each article includes a picture of the main antagonist, a release year, a synopsis, a star rating, and a review.
Markiewitz Audioworks is proud to present "A Cratchit Christmas," a full cast audio dramatization based upon the 1843 story "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens. In this original script, an international cast of voice actors, a Victorian soundscape and sound effects, and a beautiful Christmassy score, serve to bring you a rendition of this tale you've never heard before! The popularity of "A Christmas Carol" has induced more than 200 movies and scores of other productions across the media spectrum. In this full-cast audio drama, we take the framework from the original story and follow the Cratchits through the same timeframe where Scrooge is changed by the spirits. With a careful and intentional blending of the original story with new dialogue the listeners will be given a fresh look at the Cratchit family during a difficult, but hopeful Christmas season. Cast: Marc Zakian as Bob Cratchit Rachel Esposti as Emily Cratchit Marc Biagi as Ebenezer Scrooge Rigby Dehnart as Tiny Tim Gabi King as Martha Cratchit David Hilder as Peter Cratchit Bethany Baldwin as Belinda Cratchit Rainey Mangan as Lucy Cratchit Rose Beasley as Matthew Cratchit Brian Jeffords as the Poulterer Ian Lahlum as the Pastor Jonathan Cooke as the Gentlemen Townspeople: Bethany Baldwin, Rachel Esposti, Sharon Grunwald, David Hilder, & Jason Markiewitz Carolers: Bethany Baldwin, Alicia Hansen, David Hilder, Gabi King, Tanya Rich, & Dominic Treis Crew: Cover Artist: Jon Markiewitz Composer: Ross Bernhardt Additional Music: Douglas Grunwald Script Consultant: Alicia Hansen Sound Design Consultant: Jonathan Cooke Asst. Casting Director: Rachel Pulliam Director/Producer/Sound Design/Script: Jason Markiewitz A Cratchit Christmas is a Markiewitz Audioworks Production. (C) 2024 Jason Markiewitz (P) 2024 Markiewitz Audioworks (C) 2024 Jason Markiewitz (P) 2024 Markiewitz AudioworksMostra libro
In 1990, Sinéad O’Connor’s video for “Nothing Compares 2 U” turned her into a superstar. Two years later, an appearance on Saturday Night Live turned her into a scandal. For many people—including, for years, the author—what they knew of O’Connor stopped there. Allyson McCabe believes it’s time to reassess our old judgments about Sinéad O’Connor and to expose the machinery that built her up and knocked her down. Addressing triumph and struggle, sound and story, Why Sinéad O’Connor Matters argues that its subject has been repeatedly manipulated and misunderstood by a culture that is often hostile to women who speak their minds (in O’Connor’s case, by shaving her head, championing rappers, and tearing up a picture of the pope on live television). McCabe details O’Connor’s childhood abuse, her initial success, and the backlash against her radical politics without shying away from the difficult issues her career raises. She compares O’Connor to Madonna, another superstar who challenged the Catholic Church, and Prince, who wrote her biggest hit and allegedly assaulted her. A journalist herself, McCabe exposes how the media distorts not only how we see O’Connor but how we see ourselves, and she weighs the risks of telling a story that hits close to home. In an era when popular understanding of mental health has improved and the public eagerly celebrates feminist struggles of the past, it can be easy to forget how O’Connor suffered for being herself. This is the book her admirers and defenders have been waiting for.Mostra libro
BACK TO THE FUTURE THE ULTIMATE TRIVIA COLLECTION FROM THE MOVIE DIRECTED BY ROBERT ZEMECKIS CREATED BY FILM TRIVIA METAVERSE ABOUT THE FILM "Back to the Future" is a classic science fiction adventure film directed by Robert Zemeckis. The story follows teenager Marty McFly, who accidentally travels 30 years back in time using a time machine created by the eccentric inventor Doc Brown. Stranded in 1955, Marty must navigate the past to ensure his parents meet and fall in love, or risk erasing his own existence. Blending time travel, action, and comedy, the film explores themes of fate, choices, and the consequences of altering history. The movie is known for its fast-paced storytelling, memorable characters, and iconic DeLorean time machine. TRIVIA SAMPLES: "Writers Bob Gale and Robert Zemeckis received a fan letter from John DeLorean after the film's release, thanking them for immortalizing his car." "The script for Back to the Future was rejected 44 times before it was finally approved." "After the film's release, body kits were created for DeLoreans to resemble the time machine." "Biff's catchphrases 'make like a tree and get outta here' and 'butthead' were improvised by actor Thomas F. Wilson." "Christopher Lloyd expressed a desire to make a sequel where Marty and Doc Brown travel back to Ancient Rome."Mostra libro
It would be no exaggeration to say that James Dean has been more mythologized than any other actor in history, a development due more to his off-screen personality and conduct than the films he actually starred in. Much of Dean’s appeal derives from his humble and ordinary origins, and audiences are drawn to the romance of the Indiana farm boy who catapulted to the top of the motion picture industry in a single year — the same year that would see him die. Of course, James Dean remains well-known for being anything but humble and ordinary. As famous as his films are, Dean’s story is inextricably tied to his love for racing cars and his death in a high speed car crash. Marlon Brando. Few names in the acting profession evoke such a strong, almost visceral reaction. Over the course of his long, prolific career, he was considered perhaps the greatest actor of the 20th century as well as one of the most complicated and misunderstood. Uniquely able to be both emotionally charged and technically constrained in the same performance, he single-handedly changed the direction of not only the American style of acting, influencing successors such as Robert De Niro, Al Pacino and even Johnny Depp, but the acting profession on a global scale. His iconic interpretations of characters such as Stanley Kowalski (A Streetcar Named Desire), Terry Malloy (On the Waterfront) and Vito Corleone (The Godfather) have been forever burned into the collective memory of film and theatre aficionados, scholars and critics for their immense passion, rage, love, defiance, vulnerability, cruelty and tenderness – basically, the full spectrum of the human condition. With several Oscars and Golden Globes to his name, Brando’s contributions remain the gold standard of the acting craft, and the American Film Institute has listed him as the 4th greatest screen legend in history.Mostra libro
The architectural history of the Middle Ages is full of surprisesIt is hard to imagine today that relatively few construction plans have been found for the impressive churches and cathedrals of the Romanesque and Gothic periods. Where did most of the drawings go? Were the plans destroyed in Europe or lost over time? Or were they never made at all?Although there are very few architectural drawings, there were numerous compasses. What were they used for and how? Was it possible to design complex buildings such as churches and cathedrals without blueprints?The author takes her readers on an exciting cultural and historical journey through timeShe looks at the spread of papyrus, parchment and paper and traces the ability to write and calculate in Europe. She also looks at the construction process in historical illustrations and draws comparisons with Arabic architecture. Finally, the author presents the various types of compasses that were available and explains how the drawing skills of master builders developed up to the Renaissance.These insights into the history of architecture lead to some surprising discoveries: Architects of the Middle Ages thought and planned very differently from how we think today.Dr. Sonja Ulrike Klug has been studying medieval architecture for over 20 years. She has published several books on Gothic cathedrals.Mostra libro
Experience Rich Mullins's Legacy of Joy and Real Compassion Beloved contemporary Christian musician Rich Mullins lived his life with abandon for God, leaving the spotlight to teach music among a Navajo community. An accident cut his life short in 1997, but his songs and ragamuffin spirit continue to teach many. In honor of the twenty-fifth anniversary of Rich's homegoing, this edition of Rich Mullins: An Arrow Pointing to Heaven delivers an intimate look at the experiences that sparked praise hits and the values behind his Christ-like candor. James Bryan Smith captures just what Rich wished for when he said, "I hope I would leave a legacy of joy—a legacy of real compassion." See the layers of his story through reflections from friends and family, an afterword by Rich's brother David Mullins, and Smith's own bond with him. And in remembrance, be inspired to enjoy God's world as Rich did.Mostra libro
