Reacher Season 2 – Amazon Executives Ruin Everywhere
Season 1 of Reacher worked because he was a man alone. In Season 2 he can’t get away from an ensemble of sidekicks.
The Saints Row Reboot Misses What Made the Games Great
The Saints Row games were an anarchic remix of tropes gamboling through a cheerfully offensive catastrophic wasteland. The Saints Row reboot was put together by...
The Tragedy of Macbeth’s Tragedy Isn’t In Scotland, It’s In Hollywood
The problem with Denzel Washington playing Macbeth isn't that he's black, it's that he's a movie star. Washington isn't just a movie star. Like Tom...
The Rise and Fall of Psychohistory
When Isaac Asimov pitched Astounding editor John W. Campbell on the Foundation series, future histories were the hottest thing in Science Fiction worldbuilding. Robert Heinlein...
Obi-Wan Kenobi Series Review – Going Nowhere in Style
Obi-Wan Kenobi concludes with Ewan McGregor donning the outfit that he's going to wear until he ages into Alec Guinness. Fans are expected to appreciate...
Spider-Man Remastered’s New York City is Completely Wrong
When Spider-Man Remastered came out, it was praised by Screen Rant as, "one of the most accurate video game representations of New York to date."...
The French Dispatch – Movie Review
The French Dispatch is the kind of movie that an older Max Fischer, the protagonist of Wes Anderson's breakthrough movie, Rushmore, might have made. It's...
The Strangeness of Spam
For most of us we have long ago gotten used to spam. We are no longer struck by the strangeness of getting bulletins from Nigerian...
Diary of a Cobra Viper
June 10th - Arrived at our latest secret base hidden inside an active volcano. I hear it took 6 years of hard labor by the...
The Value of Plagiarism?
Reading through a collection of Philip Jose Farmer's stories, I came across Uproar in Acheron, which Farmer claims was plagiarized to make a Twilight Zone...