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Probably your favorite bartender / real estate magnate returns ( The Quarry , 2023) in an interweaving blend of eras and narratives. Almost ...

 I've recently watched the Jordan Peele produced The Twilight Zone , and thoroughly enjoyed Get Out when it came out a few year's ag...

I went and saw Joker last night - dutifully.  It was violent, very well made, well acted (and heavily acted), wonderfully shot, all like ...

I'm not entirely sure what this post will entail, but as it's the first of the fright month, and I'm watching Alien: The Direct...

I watched the surprisingly fun  The Mummy   reboot (or sequel?, i couldn't quite tell...).  It was pretty immediately forgettable, but ...

I went last night to see Say Anything  in a public venue with (i'm gonna say...) 1000 (300?, i'm really bad at estimating) people. ...

This morning I learned that we lost a great literary and philosophical mind with the passing of Umberto Eco at 84.  I have long been a f...

Of late there has been a ghastly pall of fog drifting over the spires of downtown Milwaukee (also, I've been reading some H.P. Lovecraf...

While re-reading I Am Legend , the great precursor novel to most modern zombie films and fiction by Richard Matheson, the following passage...

In his latest collection of short stories, Stephen King puts forth an argument for his own brand of "non-literary" fiction.   Ful...

*Note: This entry went unfinished for a long time (currently writing most of it 13 January 2010), so it isn't very well thought through...

I went to see Al Gore's movie An Inconvenient Truth this afternevening & it was, i think, the scariest fucking movie i've ever ...

So, yesterday i hosted my own private Lost party. And man, i just cannot believe it. What a cliffhanger, so many unanswered questions, who ...