The Man in the High Castle: A Season One Review
The Man in the High Castle, Amazon’s adaptation of Philip K. Dick’s 1962 novel, is an intriguing, well-plotted spy […]
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Read This: The Stress of Her Regard
The Stress of Her Regard is a cheerfully well-written, rollicking, swashbuckling, action-and-garlic packed adventure, a sometimes-loopy page turner, and a very different view of vampires than is today’s standard.
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Read This: The Peripheral
The Peripheral happens in two futures—the first a resource-depleted one not far from our present, and the second a depopulated but vastly rich time about seventy years further on. Certain wealthy, second-future ‘continua enthusiasts’ utilize secret Chinese servers through which they can contact and manipulate the past for their own gain.
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Ash vs. Evil Dead: Deadites and Loving It
We are now three episodes into Ash vs. Evil Dead, and I think it’s time to review where it’s […]
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Chappie: A Soul in a New Machine
Set in the too-close-for-comfort near-future of 2016, Chappie is a take on artificial intelligence that focuses on emotion instead of intellect. According to his creator, Chappie is gifted with “proper, full artificial intelligence”—which, here, includes the ability to love.
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Spectre: The New Classic James Bond
Spectre is a fine, glossy addition to the James Bond canon. And as in the previous Daniel Craig Bond films, Spectre gives us more than just the dizzying ride.
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Read This: Ian Fleming’s Goldfinger
Goldfinger’s literary James Bond has an internal ambivilence that many of the big screen Bond’s ignore. While both books and films have reveled in plot twists and gagetry, Ian Fleming fleshed out his character in a way that only the last three films (and I am certain Spectre, too) have begun to seriously tap in to.
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Read This: Something Wicked This Way Comes
Ray Bradbury’s iconic October novel, Something Wicked This Way Comes, taps into the sadness and longing that lurks behind what frightens us.
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Watch This: Tales From the Darkside
George A. Romero’s Tales From the Darkside, in first-run syndication from 1983-1988, was part of a great eighties revival of horror/weird anthology TV. The format lent itself to clever, twisted half-hour stories made on the cheap with low-tech special effects and great enthusiasm.
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NYCC 2015: A Nerd In the Crowd
As a fan without a specific focus, I did my best to show up with few preconceived expectations and a willingness to learn what the NYCC is all about. I got there nice and early, and was pleased to find the line to enter moving quickly. And by noon, the venue was packed.
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