In 2010, comic book movies were already big, but it would be two years before the first Avengers movie would hit theaters and they became an unstoppable force. So it was an ideal time for Tamara Drewe, a movie that…
Review: BRIGHTLY BURNING by Alexa Donne
Brightly Burning is Jane Eyre in space. That’s the one-sentence pitch and summary of the novel, but it’s smart enough in what it keeps and sheds from the source text that it largely stands on its own. To put it…
Read of the Week: ‘The Foxglove Killings’ by Tara Kelly
The Foxglove Killings by Tara Kelly Tara Kelly won my undying affection after Amplified, which to this date is still one of my all-time favorite reads. There’s something about her ability to write so honestly and emotionally about the young…
The Film Canon: Jane Eyre (1943)
The turning point of women writers, the provoking of traditional ideas, the suffering of high school students everywhere– these are all terms used to describe Jane Eyre, a book written by Charlotte Bronte, who wrote under the pseudonym Courier Bell…