totalfilm: Director James McTeigue talks The Raven TF scored an early screening of the trailer for The Raven at Comic-Con earlier this year and now Edgar Allan Poe fans can see it online.    Hot on the heels of that trailer, director James McTeigue has also whipped the horses and started the press bandwagon rolling properly.  The film is described as a gritty thriller, in which Poe (John Cusack) joins forces with a young Baltimore detective (Luke Evans) to hunt down a mad serial killer who’s using Poe’s own works as the basis for a string of brutal murders.[FOR THE FULL STORY, CLICK ON JOHN CUSACK OR FOLLOW THIS LINK] The film is described as a gritty thriller, in which Poe (John Cusack) joins forces with a young Baltimore detective (Luke Evans) to hunt down a mad serial killer who’s using Poe’s own works as the basis for a string of brutal murders. So, this is Castle and Murder She Wrote: The Movie, but with Poe? 
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Director James McTeigue talks The Raven

TF scored an early screening of the trailer for The Raven at Comic-Con earlier this year and now Edgar Allan Poe fans can see it online.  
 
Hot on the heels of that trailer, director James McTeigue has also whipped the horses and started the press bandwagon rolling properly.
 
The film is described as a gritty thriller, in which Poe (John Cusack) joins forces with a young Baltimore detective (Luke Evans) to hunt down a mad serial killer who’s using Poe’s own works as the basis for a string of brutal murders.

[FOR THE FULL STORY, CLICK ON JOHN CUSACK OR FOLLOW THIS LINK]

The film is described as a gritty thriller, in which Poe (John Cusack) joins forces with a young Baltimore detective (Luke Evans) to hunt down a mad serial killer who’s using Poe’s own works as the basis for a string of brutal murders.

So, this is Castle and Murder She Wrote: The Movie, but with Poe? 

A generational shift is taking place in which longer forms of writing are being replaced with shorter ones, and sustained thought with shallower forms of multitasking. Those skills have value, but a growing percentage of students are arriving at college without ever having written a research paper, read a novel, or taken an essay examination. And those students do not perceive that they have missed something in their education; after all, they have top grades. In that context, the demands of professors for different kinds of work can seem bewildering and unreasonable, and students naturally gravitate to courses with more-familiar expectations. Without a carefully structured curriculum with required courses and regulation of standards across comparable courses, it’s possible to graduate without acquiring foundational skills.

A Perfect Storm in Undergraduate Education, Part 2 - Advice - The Chronicle of Higher Education (via infoneer-pulse)

—This is a little bit scary.

No, not a little bit. This is a whole lotta scary.

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Some dude is standing on the bay with his arms up looking at a symbolic light. The Midwest didn’t have so many metaphors! What a CREEP!

The Hindu : Literary Review / Columns : Twitterature: What Next?

In all honesty there are too many book for me to keep track of every year, but this one takes the cake. I guess an upside is that I hear of it at least a year after the fact. I figure that if these books had really caught on I would have heard about them sooner. This just sounds like such an ignorant idea. As a joke, sure, but there are many, many jokes that should never become a reality. These ruin the integrity of the works because the beauty in the writing is lost, it’s all about plot, not about substance. Oh god, I just picked up Hunter S. Thompson again, first time in a year, I scared myself by re-imagining the Wave Speech from Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas as tweets. I guess in this format it would be a tweet. Everything that makes that speech so beautiful is lost. I hope these fall out of publication soon.

Source: hindu.com