In terms of the tontine of Gaslight and the revolution against the union of toxic ‘gas-lighters’ in your neighbourhood or otherwise and the survivor is Angela Lansbury (1925-). She turned up in Brisbane nearly a decade ago and gave us a rendition of Driving Miss Daisy with the voice of Darth Vader of Star Wars…
Read more David Bowie’s Revenge for Gaslight (1944) in the AC/DC war of The Prestige (Part Two)
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The written word comes in many forms and this collection of poems are hand-written by Jason Quirk and published straight from his notebook.
Author’s Note: Adventures of a Journalist aka My Schizophrenic Job had no editor. Unfortunately, the original title did not reflect the feeling of the novel. This book was written in the late 90s (true story) when I began to write again. I tried to make schizophrena funny in an adventurous or picaresque way. It is…
Read more Adventures of a Journalist: A short novel by Jason Quirk
*contains spoilers The Island (1980) is a misunderstood film with a possible demographic that was unable to view it, which is why it failed so miserably at the box office upon its initial release. This tale of a twelve-year-old boy adopted by murderous modern-day pirates of the Caribbean is also one of the great father-son…
Read more The Cult of a Pirate’s Rites of Passage in The Island (1980)
*contains spoilers For some the meaning of life is the movies. And some readers of this article may be lost without them. Isn’t that absurd that the movies as opposed to some divine being in the universe should be the meaning of life? … Or at least part of it? Perhaps you believe in both!…
Read more The Religion of Movies and The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985)
The written word comes in many forms and this short story has been hand-written by Jason Quirk and published straight from his notebook. Content Warning: A warning of explicit or possibly offensive content may exist in this published content. If you continue to read this you (the reader) are in agreement that proceeding means you…
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*contains spoilers Who was Lord Rochester (1647-80 venereal disease, liver disease and kidney failure), the main character of the Restoration set historical movie The Libertine? Played by Johnny Depp (1963-), who is near perfect in the role, his name was John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester… He died prematurely and his works, despite being of…
Read more The Cult of Pornographic Prose in The Libertine (2004)
“Just how good an actress are you?,” asks Tom Conway (1904-67 cirrhosis) of Jean Brooks (1915-63 hepatitis and cirrhosis) in The Falcon and the Co-eds (1943). And that is the question. If ever there was an actress who was unremarkable it was Jean Brooks. Yet this actress who was doomed to a life of alcoholism…
Read more The Cult of Actress Jean Brooks in Women in the Night (1948)
