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I'll put in my American two cents. My mom's worked for 911 emergency services for over 10 years and it's basically higher alert for minors and people believed to be in danger (abducted and that kind of thing). For someone with a history of mental illness, I would imagine that they would move...

I think I was watching the same channel that night... It's a good one, very fun and kooky. Far cry from the disturbing James Whale version. Never has "have a potato" been so damn creepy.

My friend made me suffer through Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day a few months ago. I knew it was going to suck (so did he) but maaaaaaaaaaaaan, that sucked. Even with several drinks in me and sitting in my own house, I wanted to leave. It is offensively stupid. I will say that for how...

Surprisingly, Will Smith cannot buy credibility or talent for his son (he and his wife were producers on that trash heap).

There were a few things that were just bafflingly stupid in terms of logic. If those handful of things were either fixed or omitted, it wouldn't have gotten nearly the amount of hate that it got. That being said, I enjoyed it when I first saw it. The cast is mostly good and I had fun, but I'd...

One of these days, I'll post a movie that you've never seen, Victoria. :P

The Swimmer (1968) A few years ago, a friend of mine said this was my kind of movie. She was right, as usual. A well-liked, upper class man (Burt Lancaster) discovers that there is an unbroken line of swimming pools that goes all the way across the county, from his friend's house to his own...

Ballad of a Soldier (1959) A young Soviet soldier gets a bit of luck and blows up two enemy tanks. As a result, he gets six days of leave time and just wants to go home to see his mother. Everyone and everything wants to distract him with errands or pleas for help, and he's too good of a guy to...

Is it at least hilarious in its ineptitude? It might be worth watching with some friends, drinks, and shouted insults if that's the case...

Phase IV (1974) The only film directed by legendary designer Saul Bass. Sadly, the poster and the premise don't do this one justice. In short, it's like 2001: A Space Odyssey with ants instead of HAL. That is, the pacing is very slow (though it's only 83 minutes), but if you're into that kind...

Finally got The Stranger (1946) off of my dvr. Orson Welles as a nazi war criminal, masquerading as a small-town prep school professor (also director) and Edward G. Robinson as the nazi hunter who has to prove to everyone what kind of monster Welles' character really is. A couple of lulls here...

My favorite review of this movie comes from my grandmother: "It really makes you think...I don't trust those Koreans."

The Last Airbender (2010): Oh god, I knew this was going to be bad - I was hoping it would be bad - but I wasn't expecting it to be this bad. The story is all over the place, there's narration from a minor character for only a few minutes, then it never pops up again, the acting is terrible...

I'm of the curmudgeonly "never the twain shall" meet opinion, but I'll elaborate just the same. There's always going to be something that's lost in an adaptation, always. So super-fans will almost never be satisfied (in my experience, anyway). That's not to say that I always hate adaptations...

I hardly need to mention PKD again, but I will. And second on Burroughs. Just read The Soft Machine and loved it (and there is a kind of sci-fi story in there with the time-traveling, body-switching secret agent).

Got the urge to rewatch Evil Dead (1980) for the 20th or so time on Monday. The first half is certainly goofy and cliche-ridden, but I'd argue that it's a 60/40 split between horror and (subtle) comedy. But then there's the last 30-45 minutes - violent, creepy, and very tense. Not to mention...

I mean, after they went to college in part III, what other worlds do they have to conquer?

Roger Corman's The Trip (1967). I'm a big fan of acid-sploitation (it is too a word, it means "exploitation film with LSD as the main focus") and this one was pretty good. Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper are quite enjoyable in this pre-Easy Rider flick (actually, this movie was used to raise...

So Christian Nash and I have been chugging away at a short fantasy novel for the past two months and we're just about ready to start sending it to beta readers. Here's the first 800 words. Shouldn't need more explanation than that. ------------------------ Human fat makes for the best...

[I might not be in the right section, but it's the one that made the most sense to me. Apologies if that's not the case.] So my pal Christian Nash and I have been hard at work on a short, collaborative fantasy novel that we're just about to wrap up in the next week or so. Is anyone interested...