‘The Sublimes’ by Yuri Mamleev, a Russian edition cover, click to get the book in Russian
Almost half a century ago, in 1966, a book was published unofficially via samizdat in the Soviet Russia. A book that both terrified and dazzled the literary establishment.… Read the rest
In a nutshell, Only God Forgives is a film about vendetta that back-fired. Set in the modern-day Bangkok, the story centers on Ryan Gosling who portrays an American expat drug dealer and the owner of the boxing club called Julian who has to avenge his dead brother.… Read the rest
Stoker is a Hollywood debut of the renowned Korean director of Oldboy Chan-wook Park influenced by a Hitchock’s Shadow of a Doubt.
It’s a noir, a psychological thriller, yet a quiet meditative one, with its Oriental aesthetics and rich metaphors, a welcome tide of freshness in the stale marshes of this genre.… Read the rest