Darkness delivered sweetly: That's what drew together the improbable partnership of gentle-voiced Norah Jones and pop-punk arena rocker Billie Joe Armstrong, who leads Green Day.
It's lifted by its setting, though, which makes superb use of the crumbling opulence, juxtaposing abandoned supercars and vast tropical fish tanks with the usual head-stomping, corpse-charring brutality, and also by its retelling of Joseph Conrad's Heart Of Darkness, delivering countless opportunities for Apocalypse Now references.
The book asks the existential, and perhaps nostalgic, question: 'How does one best live in a world of images?'" "In Artificial Darkness Elcott delivers further inspiration to those experimentalists interested in early cinema as he adds new marvels to the canon beyond the magic lantern performances of the Phantasmagoria and the shadow plays performed at Le Chat Noir.
She stood at the microphone dressed in black, in almost complete darkness, and delivered her songs with calm intensity, accompanied only by a guitarist.
When he walked off stage, the senator turned in the darkness and delivered the kind of deep bow that oozed disdain for a convention that had cheered him wildly when he walked out just ten minutes earlier.
Despite those hefty X-Men numbers, overall the market is still 6% behind the equivalent frame from 2013, when The Hangover Part III, Fast & Furious 6, Epic, The Great Gatsby and Star Trek Into Darkness all delivered solid returns.
The Yager-developed Spec Ops, meanwhile, draws from Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness to deliver a denouement that may make you feel awful for playing through the preceding hours (two words: white phosphorous).
The mice were placed in constant darkness before delivering ECS.
The twisted lovechild of Jackanory and Tales of the Unexpected delivers darkness and laughs.
Tony Law is certainly a surrealist – his freewheeling style is wonderfully devoid of structure and, frequently, sense – but he also delivers darkness in spades.
Often, it's from this unfettered darkness that the author delivers her best lines, the words strung together with a kind of plain-mouthed beauty.
