Book and Film Reviews Archive
Feature Articles The Wicker Man: the Return of the Pagan World (1973 edition) The Wicker Man is a remarkable story of the duality between the Christian and pagan ways, set against a Scottish background. In recent years, the story of the movie itself has been used as the struggle between the old Christian establishment and the reintroduction into Western society of “pagan movies”, of …
Conspiracy Times – V for Vendetta From the makers of The Matrix Trilogy, V for Vendetta paints the story of a vengeful terrorist – or freedom fighter? – which, whether in Thatcherite Britain of the 1980s or Bush’s America after 9/11, has an eternal message. by Philip Coppens “Remember Remember the Fifth of November…” November 5 in Great Britain is notorious for being Guy Fawkes’ …
Feature Articles Twin Peaks In 1990-1, the question of who killed Laura Palmer caught the television audience by storm. The answer was to be found in a bizarre, other dimensional reality. by Philip Coppens Actress Sheryl Lee was almost destined to play the dead lead actress twice: she was the face of the murdered popular schoolgirl Laura Palmer, largely an acting role limited to …
Feature Articles Stigmata In the movie Stigmata, a strange mixture of stigmata, exorcism, the intrigues of the Vatican and the suppression of secret documents are all mingled into one, to come up with an explosive story. by Philip Coppens Stigmata, as the movie makes clear, are normally only found on the most devout Christians. Nevertheless, the presence of stigmata on the body is a …
Feature Articles Star Wars: Beyond the Force Apart from one of the biggest theatre successes of all time, the six Star Wars movie also are one of the biggest on-screen renditions of archetypal mythology, set against a deep space background and a war between good and evil. by Philip Coppens Few films have become the subject of such intense interest as Star Wars has. …
Feature Articles The Sphinx Mystery Robert Temple’s The Sphinx Mystery delves into the history of a monument that is both unique and able to instil unique feelings in every human being. by Philip Coppens The standard view of the Sphinx is that it was built by Khafre, a pharaoh of the Fourth Dynasty, who built his pyramid at Gizeh, following in the footsteps of …
The Aqua Corner THE SOUND STAGE Andrew Collins British author Andrew Collins has rediscovered and entered a previously unknown cave system beneath the Pyramids of Giza. It had long been rumoured in myth and legend, and in 1817 Henry Salt, the then Consul General to Egypt, discovered its entrance west of the Great Pyramid. The discovery, presented in Beneath the Pyramids (Fourth Dimension Press, 2009), …
The Secret Vault Published by Frontier Publishing & Adventures Unlimited Press. To order, visit the store SYNOPSIS Was Berenger Saunière, the priest at the centre of the enigma of Rennes-le-Château, controlled by a secret society? Yes is the answer, but which one? Freemasonry? The Rosicrucians? None of the above; the group was known as the A.A., said to be the successors of the Compagnie de …
The Secret Vault Published by Frontier Publishing & Adventures Unlimited Press. To order, visit the store The Vault of Notre-Dame-de-Marceille by Philip Coppens A surgeon ventured along the river Aude at the beginning of the 20th century, in order to make careful observations. Professor Philippe-Henri Lonet arrived from the Bordeaux region. He came because he devoted his leisure time to the photography …
The Secret Vault Published by Frontier Publishing & Adventures Unlimited Press. To order, visit the store The AA: a secret society to protect “The Secret” by Philip Coppens There was a “movement” named AGLA, about which we know very little. As a secret society, it maintained its nature very well. On first appearance, it seems they were an underground movement that was …
