Raritania

Looking at popular fiction today it certainly seems that the first person point-of-view is more popular than it used to be, and one might wo...

As The Double Four opens country squire Peter Ruff is summoned to Paris to meet with the mysterious old woman heading the titular organizat...

I remember often thinking that the 2005 Fantastic Four movie was overcriticized. It was by no means ground-breaking--but it was entertaining...

Just as we have been deluged by Marvel and DC superheroes at theaters, so have we been on network TV. This past season the CW, an obvious ca...

Again and again I have been struck by the staying power of the boom in superhero movies--up to eight movies a year, with this looking like t...

I would not account myself a particular fan of Zak Snyder's work, but his film version of Watchmen has always struck me as grossly over...

The career of E. Phillips Oppenheim can seem an object lesson is how hugely popular writers can fade into utter obscurity, while relatively ...

Looking at Hollywood's run of product recently I find myself wondering if the action film genre has not seen its best years already--and...

Those who offer a straight answer about just "What is a Novel?"--beyond its being a "book-length" work of prose fiction-...

Is science fiction flourishing, or is it dying? Some vehemently insist on the former, many insist with equal vehemence on the latter--and bo...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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