Movie Review: The Salton Sea
I wanted to see The Salton Sea the moment I saw its intriguing trailer on Apple’s Quicktime site, but it seemingly spent only about five […]
Movie Review: The Company of Wolves
The Company of Wolves is one of only two Angela Carter stories to make it to the big screen so far (which is a shame, […]
Movie Review: Murder by Decree
Murder By Decree is a 1979 film directed by Bob Clark that was released on DVD in 2003. Previously, it wasn’t even widely available on […]
Rubber mask theater
“Ian McKellen was really awesome in that movie, but he’s never gonna win an Oscar for it because it’s rubber mask theater.” “Rubber mask theater” […]
Copyright Law: Merger Doctrine
U.S. copyright law is intended to foster artistic and intellectual endeavors by protecting creators’ rights and thus their livelihoods. However, copyright law can easily turn […]
Why it’s a bad idea to pay a vanity press to publish your writing
Vanity publishers will publish anything if the author has the money, be it a family history to distribute to relatives, a guide for classes, or […]
The Earth’s Moons
Everybody knows that the Earth has a moon: Luna* is roughly a quarter of the size of our planet and is second only to the […]
Meeting Chuck Palahniuk
I met Chuck Palahniuk at this past weekend’s Bram Stoker Awards convention in sunny Burbank, CA. Palahniuk’s phenomenal short story “Guts” was up for the […]
Movie Review: Road to Perdition
Road To Perdition is a wonderful film based on a graphic novel of the same name written by Max Allan Collins and illustrated by Richard […]
Movie Review: Laws of Attraction
Laws of Attraction is about the two best divorce lawyers in New York City (played by Pierce Brosnan and Julianne Moore) who do fierce battle […]
Movie Review: The Sum of All Fears
The Sum of All Fears is the fourth Tom Clancy story to make it to the big screen. This latest Clancy adaptation tells the tale […]
Book Review: The Silent Gondoliers by S. Morgenstern
“Where The Princess Bride was lightheartedly brutal, this story is gently whimsical, well-complemented by Paul Giovanopoulos’s zany drawings.”— San Francisco Chronicle The Silent Gondoliers is […]