[This post began as a response to some comments made by Douglas Storm on Amber’s most recent post.] The name…
A D & Jeremy Talk about Movies: X-Men: First Class
A D: Much like how you hated The Tree of Life, Jeremy, I hated Bryan Singer’s two X-Men films. Hated…
An Interview with Me at Untoward
just went up—well, Part One did, in which Matt Rowan asks me questions about my first book (Amazing Adult Fantasy),…
A D & Jeremy Talk about Movies: Source Code, Moon, and Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
[You click this link, you go back to the first installment, which found me and Jeremy unable to get service…
“Is Your Villain Appropriate?”—Examining Character Construction in Different Media
Every Monday, I read Mark Rosewater’s weekly column “Making Magic,” partly because I have a casual interest in the collectible…
My Favorite New Movies of 2010
Hello and welcome to 2011. Time to make a list of what I liked and didn’t like in 2010. A…
Schrödinger’s Laura
I had a stray thought recently about Otto Preminger’s classic 1944 noir Laura (1944), based on Vera Caspary’s 1943 novel…
Seventeen Ways of Criticizing Inception (AKA, All Knowledge Isn’t Equal)
[This can be considered a response to this post, and its comments thread.] 1. You’ve just become the fiction editor…
More on Inception: Shot Economy and 1 + 1 = 1
Some good questions came up in the comments section of my lengthy Inception critique (“Seventeen Ways of Criticizing Inception“), and…
Scott Pilgrim vs. Inception for the Future of the Cinematic Imagination
Regarding my impassioned critique of Inception, many have asked me: “What could Nolan have done differently?” Which is one way…