Raritania

Those of us who get only reviewers rather than claqueurs cannot count on the rave review the way those better-positioned than ourselves can....

Remember when Will Smith slapped Chris Rock at the Oscars? Of course you do. Remember what led up to that infamous confrontation? Probably...

On its much-delayed release the film Cherry 2000 was not a commercial success, and rather predictably so--the backers, unsure of how to mar...

In comparing the original 1989 American Gladiators series with its 2008 NBC remake one sees the distance between one epoch and another in t...

The career of Gina Carano would seem to have its points of interest for those considering the fortunes of celebrity broadly today, not least...

Discussing the decline of celebrity some factors seem to have relevance across that whole range of activities which make celebrities of indi...

The STARZ Channel's series Spartacus was not a hit on anywhere near the scale of, for example, The Sopranos , or perhaps more comparabl...

Reading of STARZ's revival of its Spartacus television series put me in mind of that first big Sam Raimi-Lucy Lawless period drama coll...

Howard Fast's Spartacus would not seem to be much read today and it is not at all hard to understand why that is. If Fast's book is...

Those authors who elected to self-publish their books using such services as Kindle Direct Publishing these past two decades placed their ho...

For those inclining toward the left of today's very far rightward center the extreme narrowness of opinion the American news media ordi...

Has video game creation become stagnant? As is so often the case the answer to that question depends on which standard one has in mind when ...

Not long ago I had something to say about the comparative poverty of fan discourse in North America regarding anime compared to other subjec...

First taking an interest in anime a long time ago I noticed that while it seemed that anime is very, very widely watched in North America th...

Sitting down and properly watching the Gene Roddenberry scripted and produced made-for-television film (and would-be series pilot) Genesis I...