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I'm not sure what to think yet.

I liked 300 fine for what it was, but it's not something I'd ever make an effort to watch again. I don't know how Snyder's style will ultimately work with the ultra-grittiness that is Watchmen; it might be too slick, too shiny. But there were moments...the owl-ship...Rorschach speaking the famous words aloud... ( Read more... )

“It will be the greatest film ever made.” - Deniz Cordell, Summer 2007

The time is very nearly upon us. In just shy of sixty hours, Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight will land in theaters with a seismic thump in thousands of midnight screenings all across the country. Demand for these screenings has been so high in some areas that theater ( Read more... )

O my brothers, it's been a devilishly long time since I posted here. Been very preoccupied. To wit: I moved to Brooklyn and am living in my own apartment for the first time ever. I'm working for the same publishing company, in a different division, and am scripting my first comic-book miniseries, which will be published online and via print-on- ( Read more... )

My (obscure and in-poor-taste) joke aside, this really sucks. Gary Gygax, the man largely responsible for creating Dungeons & Dragons, has died at the age of 69. As horribly, horribly geeky as tabletop roleplaying is (and it is), it's a hobby that means a lot to a great many people, myself included, and it wouldn't exist if not for Gygax and the ( Read more... )

Got my ass kicked last night, re: my picks. Only 10 out of 21 correct predictions, a horrific 48% accuracy. In my defense, I also had three "should wins" that in fact came away with the victory, so that improves things slightly.

Good Things: Four wins for No Country For Old Men, three for The Bourne Ultimatum. An almost-complete shutout for ( Read more... )

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HARLAN ELLISON ON THE WRITERS STRIKE SETTLEMENT ( Read more... )

Given the amount of time and energy I've expended in the production of theatre, which far outstrips the equivalent I've spent in other artistic fields if only in terms of concrete achievement, I have written surprisingly little about it ( Read more... )

Good News:

- Having already finished their next feature, Burn After Reading and commenced work on another, A Serious Man, the Coen brothers have a third new project in the pipeline: an adaptation of Michael Chabon's novel The Yiddish Policemen's Union-With the writers' strike almost certainly over, ABC has picked up several of its series for next ( Read more... )