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Friday, June 19, 2020
Reevaluating Christopher Nolan's Batman Films
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Some years ago I offered my thoughts on The Dark Knight Rises- -which were less than complimentary. But I had received its two predecessors ...
Annoying, Empty Phrases: "It's a Reflection of Our Times"
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One phrase that has long annoyed me (yes, I know there are a lot of them) is "It's a reflection of our times"--or in regard to...
The '60s-Era Batman Series: Reflections
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Earlier this year H & I has started rerunning a number of older series, with its Sunday afternoon line-up now dominated by action-advent...
Star Trek: Picard
; Et Tu,
Next Generation
?
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I have, for the most part, ignored Star Trek since the untimely but unsurprising demise of Star Trek: Enterprise . I have seen the first two...
Is Anyone Else Sick of Being Told This is a "Golden Age of TV?"
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It seems that since at least The Sopranos, but especially during this past decade, I have heard people say over and over and over again tha...
Tuesday, June 9, 2020
Review:
Specter of the Past
and
Vision of the Future
, by Timothy Zahn
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MILD SPOILERS AHEAD After revisiting Timothy Zahn's sequel trilogy to the original Star Wars trilogy I found myself picking up the ...
The Continuation Bond Novel Writer's Dilemmas: Bond Movie on Paper, or More Fleming? Write Like the Original, or Only Pretend to Do So?
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Those who have gone on flogging the James Bond series in print as in film have made much of being true to the original. "Not the last t...
The Inconsistencies of Star Trek's Utopianism
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Watching Star Trek one does not hear its sociology spelled out, but most conclude that the Federation is the sort of thing that Wellsians an...
Reflections on a
Dragon Warrior
Playthrough
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I recently played all the way through the original Dragon Warrior --something I haven't done since I first got the game way back when it...
Cousin Bette
: The Movie
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Some time ago I ran into the Des McAnuff film version of Honore de Balzac's classic Cousin Bette . The novel is a sprawling soap opera...
On Reading John Green's
Paper Towns
: Some Thoughts
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Checking the reviews of John Green's Paper Towns on Amazon I was struck by how many were annoyed with Quentin's adulation of Margo-...
From Page to Screen: Percy Jackson
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On the bestseller lists Rick Riordan stood comparison with Suzanne Collins and Stephanie Meyer as a writer of young adult fantasy and scienc...
Friday, May 1, 2020
THE SHADOWS OF OLYMPUS
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Manhattan art dealer and sometime art thief Ashley Sutton has been blackmailed by a mysterious client into the most dangerous job of her car...
Sunday, March 1, 2020
Why Are We Still Talking About James Bond in 2020?
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To say that James Bond is the most famous of fictional spies, defining if not the image of the spy then at least a particular popular image...
The Real Reason No One is Reading Your Blog
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I have long regarded what we so inaccurately call "self-help" with deep distaste. Ultimately, the reason for all that is that it...
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