Long Overdue Updates
Okay, much to cover, so let’s crank. For starters, we have my review of the videogame adaptation of Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, titled, appropriately enough, Prince of Persia: The Sands of...
View ArticleAn evening with Joe R. Lansdale
To celebrate the Underland Press release of The Complete Drive-In, author Joe R. Lansdale, hisownself, will be introducing two big screen presentations based on his own works: the classic Elvis vs...
View ArticleMy review of Toy Story 3
For the fine folks at Moving Pictures, I reviewed the latest Pixar movie Toy Story 3. Save for the Oscar-winning “The Return of the King” and the classic “Goldfinger,” third installments typically...
View ArticleA waste of time & money: I review Grown Ups
Over at Moving Pictures, I reviewed the latest Adam Sandler film Grown Ups. Like the majority of Sandler’s films — he co-wrote and produced the movie — the often weak, stereotype-based jokes grind on...
View ArticleReview of Inception at SF Signal
My review of Christopher Nolan’s science fiction thriller Inception is up at SF Signal, and for a change I’m actually quite positive. Early in director Christopher Nolan’s Inception, dream extractor...
View ArticleInstallment Four of “Watching the Future” Is Up
Though remakes have a long history, their recent sheer numbers appear to border on epidemic. One cannot hear of movies currently in production without learning that it is a remake of this work or that....
View ArticleBooger Town
In the course of my job, I often have to work with municipal home rule charters. Last week, I was researching the Borger, Texas charter when I stumbled on their warts and all description of the city’s...
View ArticleForthcoming selections
We recently determined our selections for the rest of the year. October 13 The Walking Dead, Vol. 1: Days Gone Bye by Robert Kirkman and Tony Moore November 10 Kull: Exile of Atlantis by Robert E....
View ArticleTired of Relying on Environmentalists, Walden Pond Takes Protective Measures...
In a decidedly odd occurrence, tiny freshwater jellyfish have sprung up at Walden Pond and nobody knows how they got there. Perhaps, as my title suggests, Walden Pond is developing its own way of...
View ArticleHitler’s Monkeys
In October 1941, Godfrey ordered Montagu to investigate why the Germans had suddenly imported one thousand rhesus monkeys, as well as a troop of Barbary apes. Godfrey speculated that “it might be an...
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