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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...
Saturday, December 19, 2015
Review:
The Last Command
, by Timothy Zahn
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New York: Bantam Books, 1993, pp. 407. As the third and final volume of Zahn's Thrawn trilogy opens, Thrawn's using the Katana Fle...
While We're On the Subject . . . (More on Jodorowsky's
Dune
)
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Also well worth checking out: Terence Blake's post at Xenoswarm on the same documentary from last year . In his post Blake discusses th...
Jodorowsky's Unrealized
Dune
: A Critical View
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After recently seeing the 2013 documentary about Alejandro Jodorowsky's plans for a film version of Dune back in the 1970s, I decided t...
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Wednesday, December 16, 2015
Ready to Go Boldly, Part II
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Recently I suggested that the most valuable thing a new Trek series could offer would be a rational, humanistic, progressive vision of the f...
Tuesday, November 24, 2015
Showing and Telling Katniss Everdeen
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The fourth and final installment in the Hunger Games saga arrived in theaters this past weekend, and made $100 million, which by any normal ...
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