Both Clarice Starling and Hannibal Lecter are getting their own TV shows soon; while NBC’s Hannibal is already announced and in development, Lifetime is working on a show about agent Clarice Starling’s early days. The show is called, naturally, Clarice, and would seem to fit well into Lifetime’s tough-ladies-with-sensitive-souls niche. We can only hope Read More
He’s ba-a-a-ck . Even in protective custody, you can’t let a good ghoul go to waste. In the nerve-frying Red Dragon , Dr. Hannibal Lecter, the world’s most famous cannibal, growing anemic on a diet of dandelion greens, comes back for meat, his wit still as sharp as his incisors. It’s the third time around Read More
Who among us has not used connections to receive an
advantage, to win a job, admission to a school, a special favor? Will the pure
soul who wouldn’t think of it please stand up, so we can have the TV cameras
ready when heaven opens its gates to receive you? Who wouldn’t call the friend Read More
Jonathan Nossiter’s Signs and Wonders , from a screenplay by James Lasdun and Mr. Nossiter, from a story by Mr. Lasdun, plays out as a striking gothic tale of passion and death through marital, geographical and political displacement. Stellan Skarsgård embodies a new vision of the ugly American abroad, as a commodities trader who assumes Read More
Lecter’s 2nd Course: Another Clarice
He-e-e-e-e’s back!
Dr. Hannibal Lecter, everybody’s favorite cannibal, comes out of retirement in Hannibal , a sequel to The Silence of the Lambs so gory and
gruesome it makes the original seem like a preschooler’s bedtime story. His
fondness for human livers garnished with fava beans has been replaced Read More
Why is it that the media and the culture have become such suckers for serial-killer schlock, the giddy hype and kitsch, the meretricious pseudo-science, and the half-baked books and movies that celebrate it all?
Could it be that the serial killer has become our Raskolnikov, the realization of some shared, secret dark-side fantasy of the Read More
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