Scott Brick is one of my very favorite audiobook narrators, which is why not too long ago I picked up the audiobook of Wild Fire by Nelson DeMille. Scott Brick, as usual, does a great job, but the actual novel itself? Well, it had potential. Here’s the synopsis from Goodreads: Welcome to the Custer Hill Club, [...]
Awhile back I got an email from Steve Colca, the Manager of Internet Marketing at W. W. Norton, asking me if I’d like a copy of one of their upcoming books. As you can imagine, my answer was simple but direct: Yes! So a few days later an advanced reading copy of Microstyle by Christopher Johnson [...]
Every hear of auteur theory? It’s a film term that basically says a director’s films are so unique in the way they’re shot and edited and the themes they hold that anyone viewing the film without knowing who the director is beforehand will instantly know. Or something along those lines. The directors are auteurs, the [...]
In 2008, Flume Press released a limited edition chapbook by Randall Brown called Mad To Live. It sold out almost immediately. Through the last few years I had always heard about the collection but never had a chance to read it because copies were almost impossible to come by. But everyone I talked to who [...]
The other night I had a chance to watch the documentary This Film Is Not Yet Rated, which takes a very close and scrutinizing look at the MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) and its rating system. Basically, the system was set up so films would no longer have to be censored, only, in a [...]
Or so says Frank Sinatra, and I’m pretty sure he knows what he’s talking about. But anyway, this past weekend I had the pleasure of seeing Inception. As I mentioned before, this was the only movie I was really anticipating this summer, and it was well worth it. I highly recommend seeing it and plan [...]
Gus Van Sant’s 1998 remake of Psycho was an interesting experiment that failed, despite being a reverent, shot-for-shot remake. The reason was simple: It’s impossible for us to be that shocked, surprised and horrified a second time. Not just because we know what’s coming, but because we can’t forget what we know and imagine what [...]
