SPELLBOUND by Allie Therin (book excerpt and review) There’s magic in the world – even if very few people know it. But for Arthur, meating Rory is more that magic. It’s a new life and a new love.
In this month’s Gang Roundup you’ll find book recommendations (all novels set int he 1910s/1920s) and quite a few video (music and film trailers)
This month’s Gang Roundup is particularly focused on stories. Mystery novels set in Berlin in the 1920s, WWI films, dieselpunk takes at WWII
First Gang Roundup of the year! And a crowded one at that. Start of the year, lots of posts floating around the net. It's a blogger's and reader's paradise! So let's dive right in! Sarah Bernhardt: Was she the first ‘A-list’ actress? Sarah Bernhard is one of those people you know who she is…
Retrofuturism in Dieselpunk oftentimes appears as a particular kind of retrotechnology. Author Grace E. Robinson speaks about how you go about creating it
Cornelia peered at him from the corner of her eye. It had been years since she’d seen Dr. Braddock, but she’d always made it a point to conscientiously memorize details about any of John’s associates. Yes. It was him. She definitely recognized the smoothly groomed gray moustache and the equally unkempt bushy eyebrows.
She turned…
Hi everyone. October is always a busy month for me. Work tends to take over my life, the university term starts and life in the bookshop turns the crazy bend. So try to bear with me as I fall bahind with everything else. But here are some things I found during the last month and…
Gang Roundup lineup: Roaring Twenties, WWII, distopians stories set during that time, and the awesome trailer for a dieselpunk rendition of Shakespeare
“Killer in Red” is a short film noir produced by Campari as a commercial (though certainly a very stylish one) for its cocktail Killer in Red. With Clive Owen. Directed by Paolo Sorrentino.
In spite of all the many connections between film noir and the 1940s when it was produced in, there is still something more to this films.
Classic film noir is a form of entertainment characteristic of the 1940s. That’s when, for many historical and social reasons. its popularity reached a peak
By depicting a very specific reality, but in a stylised way, film noir went beyond its limits of time and circumstances.