The impossibly pure image of the Victorian gentleman in Robert Louis Stevenson’s novella is fascinatingly changed into the image of the white oppressor in 1976's Dr. Black, Mr. Hyde. Like the best of the more direct adaptations of the novella, this features a Jekyll, in this case named Dr. Pride, who isn’t simply a…

First, apologies to you few but faithful readers. Work stress and a broken modem prevented these two reviews, so I’m combining them into one post. A silly shocker and a gothic ghost story. A cursed object and a surreal town. Episodes 6 and 7 run the gamut of Ito stories.

I’ve said before I’m a sucker for stories about groups of characters trapped in a house or a ship or some place else, preferably dealing with a haunting. So I liked the 2011 Doctor Who audio play The House of Blue Fire which begins in a house where four amnesiac strangers have been gathered. Ultimately, the story…

*cries for Clone Club* it’ll all be over soon...

Well... this is interesting if true. Definitely a grain of salt here, but Batman-on-Film is reporting that the Justice League movie is doing some pretty major reshoots. Re-shoots that may run from June all the way through August, which is kind of insane. That’s basically enough time to film an entire movie. According…

So... where to start? Without giving away anything?

There are three kinds of hard truths; the kind you find hard to face, the kind other people find hard to face, and the kind everyone finds hard to face. 2016's Sausage Party is mainly about the second kind but it’s more sensitive than you might imagine. Particularly for a movie about talking food getting massacred and…

I watched the subbed version (English) of the first episode. The sub is bad, but I like the show enough that I want to watch the second ep.

I know some here teach literature. I actually am writing this paragraph after I wrote the rest. I think Joseph Rosenberger is a good cautionary tale about writing for a living. How hard it is even for a truly prolific who published 300 novels plus articles. How it can lead to bitterness and does not always lead to a…

I lean heavily to pulp that is action driven and or leans to fantastical. Fantastical seems to be dead. Edgar Rice Burroughs was a master at fantastical fiction.

Seeing all the reviews for the new Marvel superhero movie AntMan really made me think I’ve seen a different movie. It’s not bad. It’s funny and the FXs are nicely done. And it reasonably well fits into the MCU. But, a five star movie this is not.

I’ve endured Falling Skies this far and will see it through to the bitter end because I’m stubborn that way. The last couple of episodes bode poorly for a decent finish though. “Never send to know for whom the bells tolls; it tolls for every viewer of Falling Skies.” Spoilers ahead.

LG’s display arm recently showcased a detachable organic light-emitting diode (OLED) panel that’s thin and light enough to stick to a wall using just a magnetic mat.