It's slightly old news by now, but as of December of last year I have joined Locus as part of their stable of reviewers. I'm still working out how this is going to work-the monthly schedule is a bit intense, and as readers of this blog know I have never felt obliged to review books as soon as they are published, which Locus prefers to do. So expect ( Read more... )

Making a movie is a complicated, time-consuming endeavor. Releasing a movie-especially with an eye towards the major film festivals and awards circuits-is arguably even more so. The game we critics like to play, therefore, in which we grab at several movies released around the same time and try to identify a common theme, is more often the product ( Read more... )