Showing posts with label film. Show all posts
Showing posts with label film. Show all posts

Wednesday, December 19, 2012

Homage to the Creator of The Hobbit et al

Bilbo Baggins first wriggled his furry little toes  just down the road from here. So I often think of that notoriously shy scholar  John Ron...

Friday, November 30, 2012

Movies: The Master

Through grey mist a ship of fools floats out to sea under the Golden Gate Bridge. The year is 1950, exactly half way through the "Amer...

Monday, September 10, 2012

For All You Trekkies Out There: Part Three

My colleague Jackie Taylor has allowed me to publish her clever piece about Star Trek, which originally appeared in The Astrological Journal...

Saturday, April 21, 2012

So You Thought Lilith Was Always a Woman...

In my last post I pointed out that the extraordinarily brilliant writer Patricia Highsmith had dark, disturbing Lilith conjunct her Mercury,...

Tuesday, March 6, 2012

Neptune Puts A Spell On You

Titania (Michelle Pfeiffer) and Bottom (Kevin Kline) in A Midsummer Night's Dream My friend J has great big, baby blue eyes. They're...

Monday, November 28, 2011

Ken Russell: Dedicated to Dionysus

Film director  Ken Russell  made big, messy pictures with a lot of sex and music in them. His fluid, emotional, freewheeling camerawork is ...