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A minute-by-minute analysis of Richard Linklater’s 1993 film, Dazed and Confused. Blending film criticism with creative nonfiction, each book in the Timecodes series focuses on one film, exploring it minute by minute beginning with minute one, and ending with the final minute before the...

Brooke and Sugar are killers. Bird is the boy who mysteriously woke beside them while between towns. For miles, there is only desert and wilderness, and along the fringes, people. The story follows the middling bounty hunters after they've been chased from town, and Bird, each in pursuit of their own sense of belonging and justice. It features gunfights, cannibalism, barroom piano, a transgender birth, a wagon train, a stampede, and the tenuous rise of the West's first one-armed gunslinger.

Die nahe Zukunft. Models, menschenähnliche Androiden, haben die Arbeiten übernommen, die die Menschen nicht mehr machen möchten. Sie sind so gebaut und programmiert, dass sie emotionale Reaktionen zeigen können, und oft verschwimmen die Grenzen zwischen Mensch und Maschine. Familienvater Charles Wright begegnet eines Nachts dem Model Saul, das ihn um Hilfe bittet: Saul braucht ein Update, und nur ein Mensch kann es autorisieren. Doch Charles ist unsicher. Hilft er einem Wesen, einer neuen Lebensform, das sich einfach nur weiterentwickeln möchte?

A new arrival at an isolated school for orphaned boys quickly comes to realize there is something wrong with his new home. He hears chilling whispers in the night, his troubled classmates are violent and hostile, and the Headmaster sends cryptic messages, begging his new charge to confess. As the new boy learns to survive on the edges of this impolite society, he starts to unravel a mystery at the school's dark heart. And that's when the corpses start turning up.