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Richard Brody, 2001, and the Cardinal Sins of the Critic
The New Yorker’s Richard Brody is an interesting film critic — and an actual critic, not just a reviewer (unlike waka waka Anthony Lane, or David Denby who inexplicably liked Troy but hated Iron Man)....
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Some Thoughts on “Man of Steel”
I finally saw Man of Steel a few nights back. It was about what I expected; usually my feeling for this sort of movie is that I judge it pretty leniently while totally seeing the point of view of those...
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I Am Lame (The Film Version!)
I’ve seen one movie on Film Comment’s list of the 50 Best Films of 2013. One! It was Gravity. My moviegoing is pretty much limited to things I’ll watch with either my wife or my son; or, more and more...
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“A wicked thing to do”– Priest on Tidhar
Christopher Priest is not a fan of Lavie Tidhar’s The Violent Century: English prose can be subtle, exciting, descriptive, rhythmic, mood-inducing, beautiful, shocking. Good prose is a required art,...
View ArticleTheories of Nerddom and the Horrors of Fandom
This is a pretty interesting conversation — Lev Grossman and Adam Sternbergh discuss theories of nerddom, sub-categories and all: Grossman: I like to think of myself as a three or even a four-quadrant...
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Review – Beyond the Rift
The Canadian biologist and SF writer Peter Watts, in the somewhat sour and defensive afterword to his selection of short stories Beyond the Rift, comments ruefully on the terms he finds often applied...
View ArticleThe William Blake-Peter Venkman Connection
Reading a little William Blake last night, I finally figured out who he reminds me of. From The Four Zoas: Los was the fourth immortal starry one, & in the Earth Of a bright Universe Empery...
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