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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 – Undercurrent (1946)



Movie – Undercurrent

Score : 6/10  
Year : 1946
Director:  Vincente Minnelli 
Cinematography : Karl Freund
Country: USA
Language: English
Duration: 1h56

Writers: Thelma Strabel (story) ; Edward Chodorov (screenplay)

Full cast : IMDB

Middle-aged, Ann Hamilton marries a man she knows little about and grows to suspect that he's planning to murder her.
I really like Katharine Hepburn's choices of somewhat "less glamorous" roles in some of her movies, and her courage wearing trousers (against the societal norms of her period), as she does in this one. She portrays well her character, and her growing sense of dread as well as adopting an obsession of her new husband. 
Over the course of the movie, certain aspects become predictable but the manner in which the plot-lines intersect and arrive to their end destination are less anticipated. 

There are, off course, a few moments in which the societal norms of the day can and may very well make you shudder because of their implications.  

The cinematography is well done, with some attention to lighting - always a good aspect to have in film-noir, to accentuate the drama and attract the eye. 

Acting is overall good,  especially by Hepburn. 

I've watched this movie on a dvd I borrowed at the media library, and I can say that the image and sound quality could be greatly improved (and may have been on a different edition).
Nonetheless, I enjoyed discovering this less known movie which entertained me- especially in its second half, because it has a slow start. 

Starring : Katharine Hepburn, Robert Taylor, Robert Mitchum, Edmund Gwenn, Marjorie Main, et al.
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