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As someone who has dabbled in the world of creative writing, I have to say: endings are hard…. I mean like, really, really hard....
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As someone who has dabbled in the world of creative writing, I have to say: endings are hard…. I mean like, really, really hard....
One of the most enjoyable subgenres of 1950s sci-fi film is the “Big Bug” subgenre, also known as the “Insect Fear” or “Giant Insect”...
Two disasters in one week. One of them not too far from my home. (West, Texas is only a couple of hours up I-35...
We humans are a narcissistic lot. There is nothing we like better than to think that we are the end all be all of...
On April 4th, the world lost pretty much the last of the classic writers of the original generation of film criticism. Roger Ebert wasn’t...
It has been my experience that summer movies are usually ‘safe’ movies. Now what I mean by ‘safe’ are projects that are bound to...
Oz the Great and Powerful, they say? Meh, I say. More like Oz the Dull and Feckless. Director Sam Raimi’s trip back to the...
As we all know, South By Southwest started off as a music festival, only adding the film nearly 10 years after they started. So,...
There are many other similar articles like this scattered around the net, but this one is written with a couple of specific things in...
Any woman who tells you that we can’t be just as shallow as the guys when it comes to looks is frankly, full of...
In my very humble opinion, this is the most wonderful time of the year for sports fans. Winter marches to the end and spring...
When I was a teenager living in Connecticut, my favorite television was Kung Fu Theater. It came on around noon on Sundays, and I...
BEWARE THE IDES OF MARCH!! That was the cry of the soothsayer in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar. It’s also been the cry of anyone foreseeing...
There I was, minding my business, picking up some groceries when the background music in the store came into focus and I recognized the...
In my last column, I discussed Italy’s sword-and-sandal movies. These movies yielded to Italian (“Spaghetti”) Westerns by 1965. But the Westerns yielded to giallo...
My home state has been through a lot over the last 200 years. This Saturday, March 2nd, is Texas Independence Day. That’s the day...
I’m not ashamed to admit that I’ve been counting down the days to the premiere of HBO’s Game of Thrones since the clock struck...
Valentine’s Day is a fraud. There. I said it. Ok, it’s not a very controversial position. Really, only sorority girls and Hallmark employees like...
Readers of Otaku Lounge may remember an article I wrote some months ago about Western-friendly Japanese pop and rock music. I still have about...
By Jess Barnes When it comes to romance, I’m not ashamed to tell you most of what I’ve learned is from the movies (which...
Now that the Oscar nominees have been announced, I can tell you how wrong they are. Here are my five favorite movies of 2012....
For more than 10 years now, fantasy film fans have been feasting at a smorgasbord. Scarcely a month seems to pass without the release...
Ok. Fine. I’ll do it. Here ’tis. My five favorite movies of 2012. But I’m gonna do this differently. This is the first in...
When I reflexively opted for 1988 as the focus of this Round Number Anniversary Edition retrospective, it was under the likely mistaken notion that...