I enjoyed GenghisCon 2015 so much that I was inspired to volunteer for two positions for GenghisCon 2016: running a Killer game, and co-programmer of panels.

More details of the Killer game will be released closer to the time of the con, but I will say that it's based on John Carpenter's The Thing. Right now, I'm looking for panel suggestions and ( Read more... )

On a day when the federal attorney-general defended bigotry as a right (though we don't actually have a Bill of Rights), hot on the heels of the far-right abominable Tony Abbott announcing that there will be no investigation of a murder committed in the Manus Island concentration camp, it would have been easy to fail to notice this story from the ( Read more... )

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A great interview with Joss Whedon, mostly about his low-budget modern-dress film of Much Ado About Nothing.

Last night, I went to see Children of Men, a good and intelligent sf movie (helped by a great performance by Michael Caine), with the tagline: "No children. No future. No hope." Without giving too much away, it's set in a near-future world where no children have been born for eighteen years. The British government's response to this has been ( Read more... )

Culling these VHS movies (mostly ex-rental) from my collection:

Battle of the Bombs
The Big Chill
The Godfather
The Godfather Part II
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Mystery Men
Once Upon a Time in America
Unforgiven

If you want any of these, let me know, and you can pick them up at planetfantastic or at fandomedia.

Like many of you, I'm in the process of downsizing my movie collection by replacing videotapes with DVDs ( Read more... )

Kevin Smith recounts his experiences writing the script for Superman Lives here.

"In Hollywood, you just kind of fail upwards."

My review is up at imdb.com. Warning: mild spoilers.