Samuel R. Delany's The Start Pit is one of my favourite short stories by my all-time favourite author. So it's a real treat to come across this recording of The Star Pit radio play aired in November 1967 over New York's WBAI-FM station. Much gratitude to pseudopodium.org for proving the MP3 conversions and to Boing Boing for providing this link ( Read more... )

The good news: this is everything you would expect of a summer blockbuster. The bad news: that's all it is. It's not a classic, no risks were taken, not one, it is forgettable, and come Christmas you're going to be thinking twice about buying the DVD. The real crime here, as I've harked on about before, is that with Spielberg's clout this movie ( Read more... )