Another Teaser Trailer For the Amityville 2 Project
I swore to avenge myself upon Dino De Laurentiis someday. This is how I'm going about it. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MH2C5BRky00&w=560&h=315]
42 after ’71 (Final Part)
Here's the last installment of my forty-two favorite movies since 1971. (I was born in 1971 and I'm 42 years old, see...) Here are parts one, two, and three. 32. Blazing…
A Little Tease For My Side Project
Casey Raiha and I of MMIP Riffs have been busy riffing Amityville 2 (because, honestly, what other use does that film have besides target practice for two jokesters.) I'll be talking…
Thinking Fiction
Join my new little discussion group over at Goodreads to dig into the connections between philosophy and fiction. Thinking Fiction 63 members Writers and readers come together to discuss a…
How Long Do You Want Me To Be Scared?
Accorting to Slate, Michael Robbins's Slate book review of Atheists: The Origin of the Species is one of Slate's more circulated articles, probably because few subjects (except porn) drive traffic as much as atheist trolling.…
What Should Germany Do With Mein Kampf?
Yesterday, the U.S. Holocaust museum held a Twitter chat about the impending emergence of Hitler's manifesto Mein Kampf from copyright and what the former owners, the city of Munich in particular…
42 after ’71 (Part 3)
As those who've read the previous two parts of this post know, I'm talking about my 42 favorite films since my birth year, 1971. These aren't in any particular…
Name a Great Story With A Bad Title
I just saw one: Edge of Tomorrow. It's as fun a summer blockbuster as you'll find. The premise unites the ideas behind Groundhog Day and Aliens in a way that feels more original than…
“Something very worrying is happening in France.”
Writing Summer of Long Knives meant spending a lot of time immersed in the crimes of the Nazi regime. It would be pleasant to imagine that those crimes, and the mindset…
42 Since ’71 (Part 2)
Click here for Part 1. Last week I covered the first ten of the list of my forty-two favorite movies made since the year of my birth, 1971. Here's the…