This 1987 film is celebrated as a cult classic for its depiction of self-destructive young Englishmen at the end of the 1960s. We discuss how creator Bruce Robinson got it made, and whether it congratulates its characters for their alcoholism or criticizes their generation and the end of that era of British culture.

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• Withnail & I

Additional Resources:

• How "Withnail & I" Became a Cult
• Withnail and I
• BRUCE ROBINSON Interviewed by Peter Murphy
• The World According To Grant
• 13 Loaded Facts About Withnail and I
• Withnail & I Comes Of Age This Year - If Only The Fans Would Too
• Withnail and I Facts and Trivia
• The Cult of Richard E. Grant’s Withnail and I Is Finally Having Its Moment
• We Hate It When Our Friends Become Successful: “Withnail & I”
• Withnail and Brexit: Why the cult classic is the perfect movie for our troubled times
• https://www.grough.co.uk/magazine/2020/03/09/withnail-and-i-fans-prepare-for-lakeland-alfresco-screening-of-cult-film

This 1962 novel is being reappraised by critics and fans as a creeping meditation on 1950s housewives, agoraphobia, and good old-fashioned New England persecution.

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• We Have Always Lived in the Castle

Additional Resources:

• We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson – a house of ordinary horror
• The Witchcraft of Shirley Jackson
• Flavorwire Author Club: Shirley Jackson’s Haunting Final Novel, ‘We Have Always Lived in the Castle’
• SILVER, M. (2013). Is It Real? On Shirley Jackson’s We Have Always Lived in the Castle. Southern Review, 49(4), 665–667.
• Savoy, E. (2017). Between as if and is : On Shirley Jackson. Women’s Studies, 46(8), 827.
• BOYD TONKIN. (2015, July 29). Her dark materials: how Shirley Jackson became the ‘sorceress at the sink.’ Independent (UK).
• Shirley Jackson. (2020). Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 6th Edition, 1.
• We Have Always Lived in the Castle: A Prelude to a Myth
• How 'We Have Always Lived In The Castle' By Shirley Jackson Novel Made Me Love Horror — Even Though I Hate Being Scared
• The Haunted Mind of Shirley Jackson

This 1945 children’s book by Tove Jansson began a publishing empire in Finland that is worth millions of dollars. We look at Jansson’s beloved allegory about a world where a family survives turmoil and everyone is accepted for who they are.

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• The Moomins and the Great Flood

Additional Resources:

• Tove Jansson: Love, war and the Moomins
• Brown, Ulla (November 2004). "A Quest for What Lies Hidden" (PDF). Outwrite. 7: 8–12.
• 'It is a religion': how the world went mad for Moomins
• THE HANDS THAT MADE THE MOOMINS
• How Tove Jansson's Moomins conquered readers' hearts
• My search for the real Moominland
• How Tove Jansson and the Moomins continue to inspire
• The Evocative Powers of Tove Jansson – Moomin Museum – Tampere Finland – Jude Cowan Montague
• The dark side of the Moomins

This 2001 record is praised as being metal for the thinking man. We peel back the lyrics and the time signatures to understand why this band inspires an almost-religious devotion in its fans.

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• Lateralus

Additional Resources:

• 10 THINGS YOU DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT TOOL'S 'LATERALUS'
• Lateralus
• Publication: Modern Drummer Date: June, 2001
• Fibonacci in Tool's Lateralus
• Spiral Out: Practical Wisdom in Tool’s Lateralus
• Looking Back at Tool’s “Lateralus”
• THE OUTWARD SPIRAL: HOW LATERALUS GALVANISED TOOL’S CUTTING EDGE
• ‘Hammer of the Gods’