Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Give the Superheroes a Rest?

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Alan Stanley Blair recently penned a piece at Airlock Alpha on the boom in movies (and television) based on superhero comics titled "E...
Saturday, August 28, 2010

The End of James Bond?

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Collected in The Forgotten James Bond . Back in April the producers of the James Bond film series announced that the next film is on inde...
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The End of James Bond? (Continued)

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Reboot Still, I wasn't terribly intrigued by the idea of the "reboot" that was discussed some time afterward. I'm not big...
Friday, August 20, 2010

Review: Matthew Reilly's Jack West Trilogy: Seven Deadly Wonders, The Six Sacred Stones, The Five Greatest Warriors

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Seven Deadly Wonders . New York: Simon & Schuster, 2006, pp. 401. The Six Sacred Stones . New York: Simon & Schuster, 2008, pp. ...
Tuesday, August 3, 2010

The Triumph of the Thriller: How Cops, Crooks, and Cannibals Captured Popular Culture, by Patrick Anderson

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New York: Random House, 2007, pp. 288. As Washington Post book reviewer Patrick Anderson notes at the start of his book, the bestseller l...
Friday, July 30, 2010

Mad Men: My Two Cents

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Earlier, while taking a look at SyFy Channel's first year in my July 20 posting on that matter , I said I'd get in my two cents on t...
Tuesday, July 20, 2010

The Caryatids, by Bruce Sterling

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New York: Del Rey Books, 2009, pp. 304. "Caryatid" is a term from Greek architecture referring to supporting columns sculpted in...

The SyFy Channel: Year One

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It has been over a year since the Sci-Fi Channel rebranded itself The Syfy Channel. (The changeover, about which I had plenty to say last y...