Movie Review: GET OUT
SPOILERS AHEAD! Jordan Peele, the writer-director of the satirical horror/suspense film Get Out (2017), has said that he once didn't...
Give in to the Dark Side
MY STAR WARS HISTORY, PART 2 As I explained in my earlier post, the Star Wars phenomenon landed on Earth in the late 70s like an...
A Long Time Ago
MY STAR WARS HISTORY, PART 1 With the release of The Last Jedi this weekend, it seems appropriate for me to relate my personal history...
How Not to Build a Cinematic Universe
In early December, DC Films announced its updated slate of comic-book movies in development, and it looked a little different from the...
10 Fave Lit-Flick Ladies
In the classic 1987 film Throw Momma from the Train, Larry the creative writing teacher is reading the titles of the books his students...
Villain as Hero
Because of a huge backlash by consumers and politicians against horror and crime comics, the four-color publishers got together in 1953...
Words' Worth
"A picture's worth a thousand words." A very famous saying, and quite true. It's one of the major reasons I love comic books: their...
These Movies Deserve Justice
Yesterday, I saw the new Justice League movie, which I'm not going to review here. I mention it because it more or less inspired this...
A Penny a Word
I like pulp fiction. Not the movie--though I like that, too--but rather the prose tales, printed on pulpwood paper, that were so popular...
Movie Review: ARRIVAL
Following the above prompt, which I found online, I now present my review of Arrival (2016). SPOILERS AHEAD! The film opens softly, with...
