Classics

Sequels are unnecessary and more often than not, feel like a missed opportunity. There are though, a few rare exceptions. Psycho II is one of them. Anthony Perkins had already starred in eleven feature films before director Alfred…

Directed by Adrian Lyne, the 1993 film Indecent Proposal stars Robert Redford as John Gage, a billionaire playing a game of greed, seduction, and manipulation with David and Diana Murphy (Woody Harrelson and Demi Moore). The Murphys are…

Before there was Serial, there was Charles Dickens. Offering weekly or monthly morsels of fiction, Dickens was an international literary sensation. If he were around today, he'd be writing for television and he'd be a superstar. One…

Many publications—and, well, all publishers—are in the business of telling us which books are best. From TIME magazine, to the Guardian, to Entertainment Weekly and the Modern Library, endless and ever-changing lists of the world’s…

Maurice is a short three part children’s story by a writer who remains best known for the gothic horror of Frankenstein. I came upon Maurice by accident and I can hazard a guess that I am not the only gothic fiction reader who wasn’t aware…

You're here on Headstuff having a poke around, so I'm going to assume that you love to read and learn about new things. May I ask you something personal? Why do you read? And what criteria do you use to select the books you read? All…