Saturday, April 21, 2012

Blade (1998)




A half-vampire, half-mortal man becomes a protector of the mortal race, while slaying evil vampires.

Fairly entertaining adaptation of a popular comic.

Art: Mort Künstler


Find more at:

http://www.kunstlerillustrations.com

From my vaults: Ruth Brown


Bio:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Brown

First Lines: Knut Hamsun - Hunger


It was in those days when I wandered about hungry in Kristiana, that strange city which no one leaves before it has set its mark upon him...

Art: Warwick Goble


Bio:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warwick_Goble

A day in the life, Apr. 16, 2012


A day in the life, Apr. 16, 2012, standing outside looking inside

From my vaults: Margaret Wise Brown



Bio:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Wise_Brown

First Lines: Ivan Gontcharov - Oblomov


Ilya Ilyich Oblomov was lying in bed one morning in his flat in Gorokhovaya Street in one of those large houses which have as many inhabitants as a country town.

Titanic (1953)


Unhappily married and uncomfortable with life among the British upper crust, a woman takes her two children and boards the Titanic for America.

Standard melodrama merely using the catastrophe as a pretext.

From my vaults: Johnny Mack Brown



Bio:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Mack_Brown