Virtual Virago Posted by Jennifer Garlen on February 18, 2011

I'm still playing with shadows and camera angles for my LEGO shoots. This time it's scenes from Double Indemnity (1944), with Barbara Stanwyck, Fred MacMurray, and Edward G. Robinson. I wanted to do something with a good femme fatale, and it's hard to beat Stanwyck as scheming Phyllis Dietrichson. O   read more

Virtual Virago Posted by Jennifer Garlen on February 14, 2011

I keep a record of every movie I watch; I started it when I first began writing for Examiner.com, and I have now been keeping track for almost two years. It's an interesting document - to me, anyway - because it reveals certain trends in my film viewing. It also...   read more

Virtual Virago Posted by Jennifer Garlen on February 14, 2011

I keep a record of every movie I watch; I started it when I first began writing for Examiner.com, and I have now been keeping track for almost two years. It's an interesting document - to me, anyway - because it reveals certain trends in my film viewing. It also...   read more

Virtual Virago Posted by Jennifer Garlen on February 13, 2011

"The dead ride fast" - Stoker quoted an earlier work for this line from Dracula, but it still makes one of the novel's most haunting sentiments. At the very end of the 19th century Gothic timeline, Stoker created a story that would dominate what Gothic came to mean for the...   read more

Virtual Virago Posted by Jennifer Garlen on February 13, 2011

"The dead ride fast" - Stoker quoted an earlier work for this line from Dracula, but it still makes one of the novel's most haunting sentiments. At the very end of the 19th century Gothic timeline, Stoker created a story that would dominate what Gothic came to mean for the...   read more

Virtual Virago Posted by Jennifer Garlen on February 11, 2011

Between the Laird Cregar films and The Castle of Otranto I am still much concerned with the Gothic mood. Today I stole a little time from my other pursuits to put together a few LEGO vignettes illustrating two Gothic set-ups, one Victorian and one more in line with Walpole's medieval...   read more

Virtual Virago Posted by Jennifer Garlen on February 11, 2011

Between the Laird Cregar films and The Castle of Otranto I am still much concerned with the Gothic mood. Today I stole a little time from my other pursuits to put together a few LEGO vignettes illustrating two Gothic set-ups, one Victorian and one more in line with Walpole's medieval...   read more

Virtual Virago Posted by Jennifer Garlen on February 11, 2011

Between the Laird Cregar films and The Castle of Otranto I am still much concerned with the Gothic mood. Today I stole a little time from my other pursuits to put together a few LEGO vignettes illustrating two Gothic set-ups, one Victorian and one more in line with Walpole's medieval...   read more

Virtual Virago Posted by Jennifer Garlen on February 10, 2011

Character actors always attract my attention, but lately I have been especially interested in Laird Cregar, who appeared in pictures for only five years before his death ended a very promising career that might have given Vincent Price a run for his money. Like Price, Cregar excelled at playing vill   read more

Virtual Virago Posted by Jennifer Garlen on February 10, 2011

Character actors always attract my attention, but lately I have been especially interested in Laird Cregar, who appeared in pictures for only five years before his death ended a very promising career that might have given Vincent Price a run for his money. Like Price, Cregar excelled at playing vill   read more

Virtual Virago Posted by Jennifer Garlen on February 10, 2011

Character actors always attract my attention, but lately I have been especially interested in Laird Cregar, who appeared in pictures for only five years before his death ended a very promising career that might have given Vincent Price a run for his money. Like Price, Cregar excelled at playing vill   read more

Virtual Virago Posted by Jennifer Garlen on February 7, 2011

It's obvious to me that the internet is already sufficiently overrun with personal blogs, but when has that stopped anyone else? Having far too many thoughts on a variety of odd subjects, I intend to jot them down here for the amusement of my friends and the occasional curious student....   read more

Virtual Virago Posted by Jennifer Garlen on February 7, 2011

So I am having something of a Gothic week already, having read The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole (again) and watched two Laird Cregar thrillers, The Lodger and Hangover Square. These things are all Gothic in different ways, the films in the latter sense of the term, the novel...   read more

Virtual Virago Posted by Jennifer Garlen on February 7, 2011

It's obvious to me that the internet is already sufficiently overrun with personal blogs, but when has that stopped anyone else? Having far too many thoughts on a variety of odd subjects, I intend to jot them down here for the amusement of my friends and the occasional curious student....   read more

Virtual Virago Posted by Jennifer Garlen on February 7, 2011

So I am having something of a Gothic week already, having read The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole (again) and watched two Laird Cregar thrillers, The Lodger and Hangover Square. These things are all Gothic in different ways, the films in the latter sense of the term, the novel...   read more

Virtual Virago Posted by Jennifer Garlen on February 7, 2011

It's obvious to me that the internet is already sufficiently overrun with personal blogs, but when has that stopped anyone else? Having far too many thoughts on a variety of odd subjects, I intend to jot them down here for the amusement of my friends and the occasional curious student....   read more

Virtual Virago Posted by Jennifer Garlen on February 7, 2011

So I am having something of a Gothic week already, having read The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole (again) and watched two Laird Cregar thrillers, The Lodger and Hangover Square. These things are all Gothic in different ways, the films in the latter sense of the term, the novel...   read more