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Review: Shirley

Leave a Comment / Movies, Streaming / By Virginia DeBolt / June 9, 2020 / Elisabeth Moss, Josephine Decker, Logan Lerman, Michael Stuhlbarg, Odessa Young, Sarah Cubbins, Shirley, Shirley Jackson, Susan Scarf Merrell, Women Directors

Shirley is about Shirley Jackson and the year in her life when she wrote Hangsaman (1951). It paints her writing life as a Gothic tale of horror and madness similar to the novels and short stories she produced. Writing fiction […]

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Crispin Glover, Alexandra Daddario, Sebastian Stan, and Taissa Farmiga in We Have Always Lived in the Castle

Review: We Have Always Lived in the Castle

Leave a Comment / Movies, Streaming / By Virginia DeBolt / November 5, 2019 / Alexandra Daddario, Crispin Glover, Sebastian Stan, Shirley Jackson, Stacie Passon, Taissa Farmiga, We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Women Directors

We Have Always Lived in the Castle, adapted from a Shirley Jackson novel, is a Gothic horror tale of insanity and paranoia. The slow moving story is marked by mounting dread.

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Review: The Haunting of Hill House

4 Comments / Streaming, TV series / By Virginia DeBolt / October 24, 2018 / Anna Enger, Annabeth Gish, Anthony Ruivivar, Carla Gugino, Elizabeth Reaser, Henry Thomas, Jordane Christie, Julian Hilliard, Kate Siegel, Levy Tran, Lulu Wilson, Mckenna Grace, Michiel Huisman, Mike Flanagan, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Paxton Singleton, Robert Longstreet, Samantha Sloyan, Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House, Timothy Hutton, Victoria Pedretti, Violet McGraw

The Haunting of Hill House will be discussed and analyzed for years to come. It’s that kind of work of art. Watching it is like peeling an onion – you think you’ve found the meat, but there’s always one more

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