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Tuesday, March 22, 2016

Crystalis: A Review

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It seems appropriate to spell out my viewpoint at the very start of this. I not only look at this game with a certain nostalgia, but as a pl...
Sunday, March 20, 2016

Remembering Crystalis

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SNK's 1990 video game Crystalis has some standing as a cult game, very fondly remembered by some, but by others not really remembered a...

Why Crystalis is Not a Zelda Clone

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I have often seen Crystalis called a Zelda II clone . While The Adventure of Link remains a favorite of mine from the NES era, the claim...
Saturday, March 5, 2016

The Cult of Ian Fleming

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When one looks at the history of the spy genre from the standpoint of significant innovation and precedent, Ian Fleming's claim to a pla...
Sunday, February 7, 2016

Review: Trigger Mortis, by Anthony Horowitz

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With Original Material by Ian Fleming New York: HarperCollins, 2015, pp. 320. It is not easy to make judgments about the James Bond cont...

A Sympathetic Review: Trigger Mortis, by Anthony Horowitz

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With Original Material by Ian Fleming New York: HarperCollins, 2015, pp. 320. A case can be made that Anthony Horowitz's Trigger Mor...

A Critical Review: Trigger Mortis, by Anthony Horowitz

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With Original Material by Ian Fleming New York: HarperCollins, 2015, pp. 320. WARNING: SPOILERS AHEAD In taking on Bond Anthony Horowi...

The Bond Girls of Trigger Mortis: Pussy Galore, Logan Fairfax and Jeopardy Lane

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WARNING: SPOILERS AHEAD At the close of the acknowledgements section of Trigger Mortis , Anthony Horowitz writes that he "tried to st...

Time Capsule: Crowther on Goldfinger

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At the time of Goldfinger 's release Bosley Crowther, in his review of the film for the New York Times , spent much of his piece complai...
Saturday, January 23, 2016

The "Top-Heavy" 2015 Box Office

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Recently the Box Office Mojo's Brad Brevet noted the "top-heavy nature of the 2015 box office," in which a handful of high gr...
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