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Some years ago News Corps' shutdown of the Gold Eagle imprint that once loomed so large in action-adventure fiction seemed to go complet...

Early in the pandemic my expectation was that the blow to an already fragile film business--the disruption of a much-weakened and eroding ha...

In discussing Balzac's depiction of publishing in Lost Illusions I remarked how, in contrast with so many who light-mindedly tell peopl...

I'm not quite sure how things stand here these days, but back when self-publishing exploded circa 2010 the writer who endeavored to go t...

In the last several franchise sequel-packed, and flop-packed, years we have time and again seen mighty movie franchises put out a very big m...

We now hear that Captain Marvel 2's production may have run Disney some $275 million, including $220 million "net" (the part t...

Another day, another revelation that makes Disney's finances look even worse than before--with, once again, Disney-Marvel's milking ...

If you have recently visited any major retailers with which you have been long familiar--a supermarket or convenience store, for instance--y...

One of the things that makes what the Internet has degenerated into so useless is that, far from being an open field for ideas we were promi...

Recently Seymour Hersh interviewed Thomas Frank over lunch . During the meal Hersh and Frank said a good many things of interest, but I thou...

I did not particularly care for Spike Jonze's film Her . There were many reasons for this. MANY reasons. But the one I want to discuss...

I remember all too well the foolish cyber-utopianism of the '90s, not least that aspect of it that held it to be some great leveler, wit...

In the 11-week period beginning in the first weekend in May and ending with the third Thursday of July the summer movie season of 2023 was a...

With Labor Day behind us it seems that the summer movie season of 2023 has run its course, making it possible to start evaluating the season...

Back in the '90s there were rumors of a Mortal Kombat sequel video game containing "nudalities." The rumor, so far as I know...