A Suspicious Glow: Light by Sunday Paper
Darkness is usually portrayed as evil and light as good. What happens when light takes on ominous and threatening overtones? This delightfully eerie and atmospheric short film, Light, is the work …
Quote for Today: Catherynne M. Valente
I see you go bare-shod. This is most likely extremely sensible. Shoes are no end of trouble for girls. . . . How many have danced to death in slippers …
Quote for Today: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either — but right through every …
Quote for Today: Tom Robbins
Very well. He’d lighten up. As a matter of fact, he felt as light as the bubbly froth that flew from the lips of the waves. Whatever else his long, …
Quote for Today: Tom Reiss
The novelist Dumas would one day borrow features from both of his uncles, not to mention his grandfather, the acknowledged scoundrel, in fashioning the central villains of The Count of …
Redecorating an Aging Villain: Thoughts on Project Vader
Darth Vader has been the personification of evil for several generations. Is the archetype he represents aging gracefully or not? My first movie theater experience was The Empire Strikes Back …
Quote for Today: Derek Landy
“The fact is that we have no way of knowing if the person who we think we are is at the core of our being. Are you a decent girl with the …
Quote for Today: Jim Butcher
No one just starts giggling and wearing black and signs up to become a villainous monster. How the hell do you think it happens? It happens to people. Just people. …
Quote for Today: Agnes Repplier
A villain must be a thing of power, handled with delicacy and grace. He must be wicked enough to excite our aversion, strong enough to arouse our fear, human enough …
Quote for Today: G.K. Chesterton
Fairy tales do not give the child his first idea of bogey. What fairy tales give the child is his first clear idea of the possible defeat of bogey. The …