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As the landmark British silent film Piccadilly lands on Blu-ray, we turn the clock back to the roaring 20s and beyond in search of some of the UK’s finest silent feature films.
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Genres: Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Description: Larry Haines, a mediocre vaudeville entertainer, boards a train bound for Los Angeles. Is Hollywood waiting for him with open arms? Not really as the one he signed a contract for is Percy, his roller-skating penguin partner! But, as the proverb says, the shadow of glory is better than no glory at all! Anyway, doesn t Larry meet a woman on the train? And a blonde one! And a British agent into the bargain! The delicious creature who is carrying a coded message hidden in a brooch and is being pursued by Nazi agents. She will need Larry (and Percy) s help to elude her pursuers and to get the secret information to destination. The mission will be accomplished, although in an eventful and hilarious way.
by Edward White (W.W. Norton £22.99, 400 pp)
In the world of Alfred Hitchcock, ‘nowhere is safe,’ says Edward White in this masterful study. Factories, schools, bathrooms, windmills, motels and music halls are scenes of graphic murder.
There are bombs under the table or on a bus. Garrottings take place in a swanky apartment, next to fresh-cut flowers and antiques. A knife is flung into a diplomat’s back. A woman is pushed from a bell-tower. Janet Leigh was ‘slaughtered while defenceless and naked’ in a shower. People are set alight, suffocated, flung down flights of stairs. Simply put, to Hitchcock, ‘all life is in murder’.
This is the book cover of Glory Be Saints A to Z by Rebecca Pohlmeier. The book is reviewed by Regina Lordan. (CNS)
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The following books are suitable for summer reading: The Big Book of Christians Around the World by Sophie de Mullenheim. Ignatius Press (San Francisco, 2020). 85 pp., $16.99.
Has your summer vacation been canceled thanks to the COVID-19 virus? No problem, leave the luggage unpacked and take an epic family trip to 25 different countries with The Big Book of Christians Around the World. Full of interesting facts, illustrations and photography, this hardback will pique children s curiosity about culture, geography, politics and religion. Time to set up a virtual trivia game and impress the grandparents. Ages 9-12.