While certain members of my circle will insist, "Never read anything written before 1980!", (And true, there's a wealth of quality works, enough to last you the rest of your life, written before

Back on the blog, and maybe it's just becauuse I think I have a bit more to say of recent... or that I have a new tablet. Allow me to begin by plugging the app Hoopla Digital: Free eBooks, audiobooks,

Alpha is a good movie. Who's a good movie? Alpha! Alpha deserves a cookie. Yes it does. A movie set in the last ice age that captures the natural danger of the harsh environment, and doesn't rely on whipping

A defining line between Action & Adventure is the integration of Location into the action. While Action may happen in an Adventure movie, Harry Callahan isn't likely to run from stampeding rhinoceri

[Frank Nelson Voice] Yeeeess? It seems like the SJWs at SFWA just aren't going to catch a break. As others have been posting, the San Jose WorldCon concom has been taking heavy flak over, of all things,

Research is the key to bringing foreign locales to vivid life, and you don't necessarily have to travel there yourself to get decent reference. In my first post to what will be at least a three part series

Everyone's hometown is exotic to someone if you study the history and place access to the fantastical within it. Most places where people live already contain elements of the fantastic & adventures

A Quiet Place was a movie that illustrates that while poor communication can kill, talk is cheap when it comes to Love. We could A Quiet Place, John Krasinski's directoral debut, "Patriarchy: The

Jordan Peele used the Horror genre to illustrate the anxieties of black men in 2017's Get Out. Now, Leigh Whannell uses Cyberpunk & Film Noir to similar effect for working class white men in Upgrade.

Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson might have the lock on playing the classic "Pulp" hero. The cinematic Rampage starts playing with both trope & genre, as astronaut/scientist Dr. Atkins

Maybe the real #ReadyPlayerOneMovie was the #GamerGate we made along the way. It's an insane amount of salt being thrown at this film by any variety of libprog identitarians who seem butthurt over the

If #GuillermoDelToro's #PacificRim was a love letter to the Kaiju film genre, #PacificRimUprising is a form letter. Imagine you're walking down a lonely beach and you stumble upon an old oil lamp half

"Oi! Where's yer Tomb Raidin' loicense?" Lara Croft's bland & canned 'adventure' fails as an adaptation of the original (reboot) video game, drawing towards an unsatsifactory close because

Maybe reviewers would have been more forgiving of this film if Bruce Willis had sex with a fish. The mainstream media has a nigh inability to honestly review, or consider with any clarity, the gun-toting

Okay, so I'm watching a YouTuber by the name of "The Dom" do a review in his series Lost in Adaptation and he really (some would say Justifiably) hates everything 50 Shades of Grey. Understandable.

Pureflix Studios' first attempt at a direct action/epic for their Christian audience is an ambitious step away from their core product of lightweight comedies, melodramas and movies about debating God

The Wakandan Man's Burden Let's get the least interesting part of any discussion of the Black Panther out of the way first. Yes, I'd give it a solid 3.5 out of 5, or maybe a 4. It was a thoroughly crumulent

Koji Kabuto isn't a pussy. I cannot recommend taking a young person to see Mazinger Z: Infinty enough. If nothing else for the fact that Koji Kabuto is a hero of another era, a hero of an age when a rebellious

After two fairly decent outings, the finale of the Maze Runner trilogy; The Death Cure, stumbles when it should sprint. Chief among the problems with this film are the logisitics- the "heros"

Peter Maass engages in the war on masculinity in The Inctercept with "It's Time to Wage War Against Movies that Glorify 'Outdated' Models of Masculinity." (Like hell I'm linking the original.