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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 – The Haunting (1963)



Movie – The Haunting 

Score : 6/10  
Year : 1963
Director:  Robert Wise
Cinematography : Davis Boulton
Country: UK & USA
Language: English
Duration: 1h54
Writers: Nelson Gidding (screenplay) ; Shirley Jackson (novel)

In his attempt to prove the existence of ghosts, Dr John Markway invites 2 women and a men for his research in a haunted house, in this classic horror movie, directed by Robert Wise and based on a novel with a slight longer title the haunting of Hill house.

Wise's direction and Boulton's photography join to a great visual experience with interesting angles and effects, but this movie is plagued with a horrible sound effects which reduces my appreciation as the noises are too loudly played and destroy the experience and what is implied in less believable. In my opinion, the eerie atmosphere would've benefited from a subdued mysterious sound effect instead. 

The acting was ok, but I never forgot I was watching actors and actresses, with very few exceptions. 

I found some hinted clues to social commentaries the director might have tried to discuss, like he did on another movie on the period... but which made certain scenes a bit awkward. 

There a few dialogues and actions which I found unbelievable from a scientist, even in those days...  

The musical score was fitting, except during those loud noises where everything got a bit too jumbled up with the dialogues, and this entire mixture of issues reduce what could've been an amazing horror movie - which is a shame, because it had a lot of potential. 

It was still entertaining enough as a Halloween movie this year.  


Starring : Julie Harris, Clair Bloom, Richard Johnson, Russ Tamblyn, et al. 
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