2 days agoMOVIE REVIEW: The Darkest Hour (2011)After visiting my brother and his family, a friend called me and wanted to know if I wanted to hit the movies. I said yeah, and we went. Not a lot of movies to interest me this holiday season, the least of which was the new sci-fi movie The Darkest…Alien Invasion4 min read
Jun 17MOVIE REVIEW: The Wolf Man (2010)When I saw the trailer for this movie, I immediately said, “I hope they have some sort of werewolf battle at the end.” I went to see it, and I was not disappointed. …Werewolves3 min read
May 31Guns, or Why News Webpages Disabled or Removed the Comment Box EntirelyI recently had the displeasure of commenting on a CNN article on Facebook: “Canada’s Trudeau announces bill to cap sales, transfers and imports of all handguns in the country” and I could not believe the feedback. It was one thing to correct me about the difference between an assault rifle…Gun Violence6 min read
May 17MOVIE REVIEW: Chernobyl Diaries (2012)The 1980s were a busy decade for major disaster events across the globe, and 1986 was no exception. The two big stories were the Challenger Explosion above Cape Canaveral, FL, USA (an event I witnessed on television in school) and the Chernobyl nuclear disaster near Pripyat, Ukraine, USSR. The Challenger…Chernobyl5 min read
Apr 14MOVIE REVIEW: Sin City — A Dame to Kill For (2014)When most people think of comic book movies, they think of movies like Marvel’s The Avengers, WandaVision, Wonder Woman, and the “Snyder Cut” of Justice League. I think of those too, but I also think of movies where the art direction eliminates confusion about what you’re watching —not a film…Sin City6 min read
Mar 18OBITUARY: Mom Said Prince is a SickoWhen I was young, we got cable TV and the first thing we children did was put it on the channels we would watch for roughly the next 18 years: MTV, VH1, Nickelodeon, and so on. We were all about MTV, since my sister was a pre-teen and my brother…Prince3 min read
Feb 21MOVIE REVIEW: Cyber Bride (2019)[CW: depictions of domestic violence & animal cruelty] The idea of robots and androids — specifically the female-presenting kind — has fascinated me since I was a child. These “fem-bots” held a hope for me, a socially-awkward boy nerd, whereas I could buy or build myself the perfect female companion…Cyborg5 min read
Feb 7ANIME REVIEW: Lily C.A.T. (1987)I stopped by my local used book store in Miami, called Paperback Book X-Change. It was a subdued affair, picking up books to read on my trip to work, and I decided to get some VHS tapes to transfer to DVD. I picked up two VHS tapes: Sword and the…Anime Review3 min read
Jan 9OBITUARY: Ric Ocasek (1944 -2019)As art is the decoration of space, music is the decoration of time. Memory can bind them together in ways we can never truly express or understand. Such is my experience with the songs of the New Wave band The Cars and its lead singer Ric Ocasek.Obituary3 min read
Nov 12, 2021MOVIE REVIEW: Marvel’s Eternals (2021)The latest installment in Phase 4 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe™ is Eternals, based on the MANY comic book series bearing the name of the titular beings in them. You might think that means the numerous comic series end and they bring it back because they were popular: ever since…Movie Review9 min read
