Movie Review: The Matrix Reloaded
Overall Impressions (Possible Slight Spoilers) The Matrix: Reloaded is one of the few movies I’d been looking forward to seeing for literally years. In this […]
TV Review: Aqua Teen Hunger Force
“Shake power activate! Master is my name, and thirst is what I tame. “Baffle yourself with flavor!” — Master Shake “The bun is in your […]
Movie Review: The Return of the King
This final installment in Peter Jackson’s filmed trilogy based on Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings is a hard film to review properly because there’s so […]
Book Review: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Princeby J.K. Rowling, illustrated by Mary GrandPreArthur A. Levine Books (July 16, 2005)ISBN: 0439784549652 pages I know a fair number […]
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 […]