Tag: SelfMadeHero

John Seven reviews 'Maggy Garrisson'

John Seven reviews 'Memoirs of a Book Thief'

'Blossoms in Autumn' reviewed by John Seven

Everyone knows about the wider mythologies that creep their way into childhood, everything from Bigfoot to Slender Man that infects young brains in a...

In some ways aiming to be the Black Mirror of graphic anthologies, I Feel Machine features six cartoonists each exploring the intersection between humanity...

Lip Hook takes some of the best conventions of the British folk horror genre and uses them to perfect effect. Outsiders becoming stranded in...

The noir genre has one dynamic at its center that repeats so often it’s hard to tell if it’s a cliche or an archetype...

From Moses to Mad Max, wandering in arid desert lands evokes a journey for self, for destiny, and of course for survival. Usually it...

In Frederik Peeters and Loo Hui Phang’s The Smell of Starving Boys, the words “virgin land” are used several times to describe America’s West....

This mysterious work adapted by Booker-nominated author Deborah Levy from her own story captures the dynamic between two advertising men, Tom and Nikos, who have...

Walking a line between a depressing coming of age tale and a Kafkaesque expression of emotional hurt manifesting itself physically, Outburst ends up twisting...

If you're looking for a real-life badass heroine, you won't find a better one than Josephine Baker.