The werewolf lore is sound and the cast is solid. FINAL WORD: Although "Never Cry Werewolf" loses points for blatantly ripping off "Fright Night," the bottom line is that it's entertaining from beginning to end. The film was shot in Brantford & Hamilton, Ontario, and runs 87 minutes. Melanie may not be as cute but she has better curves. Nina is good as the protagonist and has a cute look, but I prefer her friend in the story, Angie, played by Melanie Leishman. But he's clearly at least 36 years-old and so it's a bit disturbing that he's literally sniffing around a 16 year-old girl. Like I said, "Never Cry Werewolf" only plays it semi-straight, so don't expect the dead-serious vibe of, say, "wolfen" or even "Red Riding Hood." Stebbings is reminiscent of Hugh Jackman's Wolverine here and is excellent in the role. Of course, no one believes her so she enlists the help of a washed-up reality show actor (Kevin Sorbo). PLOT: A mysterious man (Peter Stebbings) moves in next door to teenager Loren (Nina Dobrev) and she concludes that he's a werewolf. Yes, it rips-off the plot of a popular film from two decades earlier, "Fright Night" and, yes, it is a made-for-TV flick, but despite these factors it delivers as a half-serious/half-comedy werewolf flick. I don't get the lukewarm reviews as "Never Cry Werewolf" (2008) is a worthy addition to the werewolf genre.
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selling stuff) when she lived in Ogden, Utah. Martin, retired now, was a university professor, teaching theatre courses, English courses and speech, plus directing plays.Ĭarla says she began writing in earnest (i.e. She was married by her senior year, and eventually Martin and Carla had five interesting children. Papers were a breeze (refer to Miss D in the above paragraph), and Carla graduated with a degree in Latin American history. Miss D was a wicked hard taskmaster, but it occurred to Carla that if she did what Miss D said, and paid attention, she'd be a writer someday.īrigham Young University was a great place to go to college. "We wouldn't have dared not complete what she had assigned us," Carla said. She was the only teacher Carla ever knew who never needed a substitute when she was gone. To show how mean, she insisted that her students learn A LOT. Jones High School, Beeville, Texas), she got involved in journalism, which was a great thing, since JHS had an exemplary journalism teacher, Jean Dugat (Miss D), the meanest teacher alive. She admits to going through that awkward, poetry-writing phase. But Carla said it had a plot.Ĭarla was always writing something. It had a cover (she spent more time on the cover than the narrative), and consisted of two sentences. It was called The Old Mill, and she wrote it on her mother's Olivetti-Underwood typewriter. Carla has always said that she only writes the books that she wants to read, which has made this whole writing business extra fun. Heavenly Love is purely between males, more preoccupied by the mind and soul. All he cares about is performing the sexual act and happens more commonly between the female and male, a reflection of Pandemos’ parentage. They are both to be praised, as all gods and actions are, but praise depends on how the actions are performed the praise and nobility of Love depends on the sentiments he produces in us.Ĭommon Love strikes when he gets the chance, felt by the vulgar, more attached to the body than the soul. One is Urania, known as Heavenly Aphrodite, and the younger is Pandemos, known as Common Aphrodite, so accordingly there exists Heavenly Love and Common Love. Love and Aphrodite are inseparable and Aphrodite is actually two goddesses, for which reason there are two kinds of Love. However, he claims there are two kinds of Love, for which reason he describes them both before giving praise to the one he thinks is worthy. Pausanias began by reminding the gathering that their purpose was to give speeches praising Love. Phaedrus’ speech was followed by several others which Aristodemus remembered poorly, so Apollodorus continued on to tell of Pausanias’ speech. Though a pious member of her family’s otherwise all-white church as a child, Gifty struggles with a loss of faith, efforts to coax her mother back to life, and the alienation she finds in even her closest relationships as she attends Harvard and moves on to graduate school. After his death, her mother falls into a deep depression, often not leaving her bed for weeks on end. Nana, a talented rising star on the basketball court, is prescribed opioids after an injury and ends up a heroin addict. When the Chin Chin Man, as Gifty and her older brother Nana call him, finds the racism and joylessness of life in Huntsville too much to endure, he returns to Kumasi and the family is never quite the same. Gifty’s mother immigrated to Alabama, her father reluctantly in tow. Gyasi’s second novel Transcendent Kingdom follows Gifty, a Ghanaian-American doctoral student at Stanford studying the neuroscience of addiction and depression in mice. She hasn’t been able to churn out book #27 in her series due to writer’s block stemming from bestselling author Will Price demeaning her work and the category of kid lit in general. She’s the author of a popular children’s book series and takes the gig at a book festival for the money. No Words takes us back to Little Bridge Island along with Jo Wright. Sorry to ruin your life like that, but it’s Meg’s fault. I don’t know that there is a better romance trope out there now. This one might be my favorite thus far.įriends, No Words is enemy WRITERS to lovers… at a book festival. I enjoyed No Judgementsand its sequel, No Offense, so seeing that the Little Bridge Island series was continuing with No Words made me very happy. Books and movies.Īt BookCon 2019, I ended up getting to briefly meet Meg while getting an ARC of her new romance series signed, and I was a total nervous fangirl about it. I grew up with Amelia Mignonette Thermopolis Renaldi in my life, therefore I love Meg Cabot. I stepped through the hedge gap to find three men confronting a woman so lovely I knew her at once as the maiden acclaimed throughout the County of Kent as Lady Mirdath the Beautiful. The last time I paused, lost in solemn glory of the coming twilight, I heard to my right, beyond a gap in the hedge bounding the country road, the din of strident voices, some low and coarse, but one higher, as of a person in distress. It was the joy of sunset that brought us together, as I walked alone, far from home with my oak staff in hand, pausing often to view with wonder the clouds forming, row upon row, the battlements of evening in the sweet, gathering dusk of the year 1827. Nothing else survived, nor does anything remain around the manor except a stand of ancient oaks and a small, family cemetery. The charred fragments of the story we now call “The Night Land” were discovered in an iron box in the burned ruins of an ancient country residence in the County of Kent. Chapter One and Two of The Night Land, A Story Retold, my rewrite of William Hope Hodgson’s masterpiece. |