Seen for Halloween
Hey, it’s Halloween time, which means I’m watching Halloweenish shows and movies. And I have opinions. (Spoilers for everything) The Shining (1980): Supposedly one of the greatest horror movies of all...
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Hey, it’s Halloween time, which means I’m watching Halloweenish shows and movies. And I have even more opinions here in part 2. (Spoilers for everything) His House: If it weren’t for the next film on...
View ArticleEven More Seen for Halloween
Hey, it’s Halloween time, which means I’m watching Halloweenish shows and movies. And I have even more opinions here in part 3, also known as “part last”. (Spoilers for everything) The Innocents: This...
View ArticleA Holiday Post and a Thank You
First of all, thank you for all the kind words about my sister. I’m grateful for every kindness at a time like this. Second, I plan to cook up a little treat for my family so we can have a little...
View Article“There’s No Such Thing as an Anti-War Film”: Power Fantasies, Gritty...
Yeah, this post is full of spoilers for The Batman. The good kind, but still. It’s probably not the case that Francois Truffaut explicitly said that it was impossible to make an anti-war film, although...
View ArticleMy Father’s Favorite Team Will Play in the Super Bowl this Weekend
Roman Gabriel. He’s the first Eagles quarterback whose name I remember. I’m old enough to have known about Norm Snead or Pete Liske, but I didn’t have much interest in the game at that age. Besides,...
View ArticleThe End of Netflix Mail-Order Discs
Friday the 29th is the last day Netflix will be mailing out discs for their mail order movie rental company and even though I live in a city, have reasonably good internet and access to a bunch of...
View ArticleFollowup to the end of Netflix DVDs
Friday was the last day Netflix was sending out discs, and that morning I found an email in my inbox saying thanks and goodbye and use this link if you want to download your queue, history, ratings,...
View ArticleA Child of Many Mothers: Sequels, Asterisks, and the Expanding MCU
So, I went to see The Marvels when it premiered. Takeaway: I enjoyed it despite its flaws. It was funny. It was goofy. It had big, complex battle scenes. It established that flerkins have Hammer Space...
View ArticleWriting Update, Personal Update, Pop Culture Update
It’s been too long since I dropped an update and talked about some random news, so let’s see if I can squeeze some time in for that right now. Progress on the new novel has been glacial. I know that’s...
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