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eBook – The Empire Striketh Back

eBook –  The Empire Striketh Back Full title :  William Shakespeare's The Empire Striketh Back By : Ian Doescher  Iillustrations :  Nicolas Delort Score : 9/10 Year : 2014 Publisher : Quirk Books  eISBN :  978-1-59474-716-8 Based on  978-1-59474-715-1 (hard cover) Pages : 176 *  Language : English From Goodreads : Hot on the heels of the New York Times best seller William Shakespeare’s Star Wars comes the next two installments of the original trilogy: William Shakespeare’s The Empire Striketh Back  (and not reviewed as yet,  William Shakespeare’s The Jedi Doth Return.) Return to the star-crossed galaxy far, far away as the brooding young hero, a power-mad emperor, and their jesting droids match wits, struggle for power, and soliloquize in elegant and impeccable iambic pentameter. Illustrated with beautiful black-and-white Elizabethan-style artwork, these two plays offer essential reading for all ages. Something Wookiee this way comes!  *** As he explains at the end, Ian Doescher
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Movie – Psycho (1960)




Movie – Psycho
Score : 9.5/10 (read on)
Year : 1960
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Country : USA
Language : English
Duration: 1h49
Writers : Robert Bloch (novel) ;  Joseph Stefano  (screenplay)

Note : IMDB rates this as '' X '', and in the detailed parental guide tells us it would be a modern ''strong PG13'', after all, this is, a Hitchcock movie with murder and partial nudity, not the material you'd want to see if you are extremely sensitive, or let your underaged kids see... however, if I, a very sensitive man, can watch this, most of you won't have troubles at all.

The movie revolves around A Phoenix secretary who steals $40,000 from her employer's client, and runs away... where ? you probably know, but if you don't, watch and find it out for yourself... 

I love the score, the acting, directing, lighting, that if it hadn't been for the taxidermy animals shown now & then, I'd give this feature a 10/10.. well, technically it still does get it, but my appreciation for the movie is 9.5, just because I must reduce a bit from the small parts I dislike about it.  

 Psycho was our Halloween movie in 2014. We watched it on a bluray with a stunning, crystal clear image as if the movie had been done today, not in 1960, and with a DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 (48kHz, 24-bit) sound, after what must have been a very time consuming process to deliver a visual slap in the face, 12 times... 

I will let you know more about the bonus material once I get to watch them, till then, I can already say that there is a lovely animated menu to access the various elements on it : the movie, chosen language, sound preferences, subtitles, bonus...
so, if you're a fan of Alfred's movies, thrillers, old movies, I suggest you get this, you won't regret it.

Starring : Anthony Perkins, Vera Miles,  John Gavin, Janet Leigh, Martin Balsam, and others, including Patricia Hitchcock (the director's daughter)
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