Sat 02 May 2009 – 01:11:03
I was inordinately pleased to learn, while working my way through the archives at the invaluable Horror-Movie-A-Day, that Omar Khan made a horror film. The often-wry reviews posted at The Hot Spot Online (A/K/A the most awesome ice cream shop ever) can be helpful in learning a bit about the context of Bollywood/Lollywood horror movies.
Thu 15 Jan 2009 – 20:34:28
Patrick McGoohan is dead. The Prisoner inspires Trekker / Browncoat levels of devotion in me. (When I saw last week that AMC is streaming the original series online, my first thought was, “which episode order are they using?”) It was my first exposure to science fiction TV other than Star Trek, and it shaped my [...]
Fri 09 Jan 2009 – 14:53:47
Gizmodo: Palm Stock Jumps 34.85% On Palm Pre News. I am pleasantly surprised that the new Palm Pre is getting such positive initial buzz. I’d long accepted that Palm was on death watch, and for good reason: “stagnation” doesn’t even begin to describe how badly they’ve botched product development this millennium. It will be interesting [...]
Fri 09 Jan 2009 – 13:21:44
Elizabeth Bear may well be right when she says that this is the best Amazon review ever. Hysterical satire. (Update: Not surprisingly, the spoilsports at Amazon have apparently pulled the review. Rather surprisingly, the spoilsports at Amazon have apparently put the review back up! Good for them. Here’s another copy, just in case.)
Mon 01 Dec 2008 – 01:03:17
Variety describes the novel The Straw Men as a crime thriller about a detective brought out of retirement to solve a series of bizarre murders connected by dark conspiracy . Which makes me wonder if the intent is to make the least interesting of the novel’s three main characters the protagonist of the film version. [...]
