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Saturday, January 26, 2013

Coming This Year, Part I: Star Trek: Into Darkness

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Star Trek: Into Darkness , the sequel to the 2009 big-screen reboot of the half century-old Star Trek franchise, is of course one of the maj...
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Thursday, January 10, 2013

The Decline of the Sex-Themed Blockbuster

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Yes, you read that right. The old adage has it that sex sells, and the conventional wisdom holds that pop culture is becoming markedly more ...
Wednesday, January 9, 2013

Skyfall and the Trend in Spy Movies: Which Way Will They Go?

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Skyfall is now a billion-dollar hit, and in all likelihood just a few days away from being the highest-grossing Bond film of all time in in...
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Wednesday, December 26, 2012

This Year at the Movies: The Commercial View

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Since the 1970s North Americans have typically gone to the movies four to five times a year. When the figure falls toward the low end of the...
Monday, December 24, 2012

The End of Leverage

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It was with some dismay that I heard about the cancellation of the TNT show Leverage , one of the few shows (and fewer non-genre shows) I...

And the Best Science Fiction Novel of the Twentieth Century Is . . .

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Frank Herbert's Dune , according to a poll taken by Locus Magazine, the results of which were published Saturday , part of a larger ...
Sunday, December 16, 2012

The Star Wars prequels and The Hobbit: Audience Expectations

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Reflecting on the likely response (long as well as short-term) of audiences to the release of The Hobbit my first thought was for what migh...
Wednesday, December 12, 2012

Watching Smallville

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As with most of the young adult-oriented WB fantasy dramas of the late 1990s and early 2000s ( Charmed , Angel , Supernatural ) I missed the...

Reading the Jack Ryan Novels

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Tom Clancy is widely remembered as the writer Patrick Anderson hailed in the New York Times as the "king of the techno-thriller,...
Saturday, December 8, 2012

My Five Most Important Science Fiction Novels

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Here are what I think of as the five most important science fiction books (and in some cases, series' of books) that I have read. By tha...
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