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Critic’s Notebook: The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Movies of the 1980s
Introduction “Interest in film, pop and television stars and science fiction peaks between the ages of 12 and 13.” Media Genres and Content Preferences by Carmelo Garitaon and Jose A. Oleaga, Patxi...
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80sSFF: Apocalypse Now (1979) and Apocalypse Now Redux (2001)
The first part in a series dedicated to examining the science fiction and fantasy films from 1979 to 1989. The series will investigate whether these films possess certain ineffable qualities missing...
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What I’m Reading 2012 and Other Business
What I’m Reading 2012 Overview: I’m currently reading five books. Each poses certain challenges (in some cases, self-imposed challenges) to me as a reader, reviewer, critic, historian, and aesthete....
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Driftless Area Review Metapost
A Thank You, CCLaP, and NYJB First off, thank you to all the followers of the Driftless Area Review. Those following via email updates, on Twitter, or on Facebook. Thank you, all 222+ of you. I’m...
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80sSFF: Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
A series dedicated to examining the science fiction and fantasy films from 1979 to 1989. The series will investigate whether these films possess certain ineffable qualities missing from today’s films...
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Commonplace Book: Ghostbusters on print media
In memory of Harold Ramis (1944 – 2014) Janine Melnitz: You’re very handy, I can tell. I bet you like to read a lot, too. Dr. Egon Spengler: Print is dead. Janine Melnitz: Oh, that’s very fascinating...
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Commonplace Book: Jack Burton on Paying Your Dues
Compelling passages, notable quotables, bon mots, disjecta, ephemera, and miscellany. Via When some wild-eyed, eight-foot-tall maniac grabs your neck, taps the back of your favorite head up against the...
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