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Category: Books & Film
Nurse Chapel is dead
Over the last few weeks, I’ve really enjoyed watching the digitally remastered three seasons of the original Star Trek Series. If you’re a fan and haven’t experienced the cleaned, effects-enhanced episodes, I recommend them. For die-hards, just go ahead and buy the seasons; for everyone else, rent or stream them from Netflix. One of the…
Spock 2.0
One of my childhood idols is back…and hotter than ever. Let the foaming of the mouths begin.
The Apostle Lestat?
I always knew Anne Rice’s fiction was florid overrated nonsense, but I never, in my wildest dreams, suspected the author herself was a fool. What’s next, J.K. Rowling for Islam? Torah readings by Stephen King?
42 minutes in
As is usual with M. Night Shyamalan, I took the bait. He’s that rare filmmaker who once made such a good movie that you can’t be faulted for hoping that, even by accident, he’ll do it again. Even if nearly all his output since The Sixth Sense has demonstrated that he’s only a self-important bore….
I Shit on Your Face, Part 1
In 1978, Meir Zarchi’s then dismissed Day of the Woman crawled into theaters and disappeared shortly afterward. In 1981, the film was re-released under the far more interesting and provocative title I Spit on Your Grave, and gained enough notice to cause decent, upstanding citizens (who cared) to call it a festival of misogynistic violence….
Muslims and the cowards
Sherry Jones wrote a novel about the relationship between Islam’s Muhammed and A’isha, his 9 year old bride, with whom he consummated their relationship when she was 11. Random House was supposed to release this book on August 12. A day or two beforehand, they decided not to release the book because “credible and unrelated…
Surrealist fiction lives!
My friend, Erik Secker, has reached that most special of milestones for a writer: his first published story, “The Red Door.” You can find it in the current online edition of Farrago’s Wainscot, a “Gallery of Weirds.” I love this story, not just for its clean, neatly colored writing, its excellent sense of place and…
You do not get to own Indiana Jones
Over the weekend, I had the distinct pleasure of seeing the new Indiana Jones flick. Twice. I’m so close to Indy that I can’t possibly write about his movies with any sense of objectivity — he’s been in my life since I was 15 years old. ‘Nuff said. I will, however, steadfastly refuse to surrender…
That big-screen feeling
I look back on the ambitious failures of science fiction cinema over the last few decades and a few stand out: Mission to Mars, Supernova, 2010: Odyssey 2, The Fountain. These are movies made by the best in the business, and I walked out of each one dejected that it wasn’t the next 2001: A…