Reviews

Reviews

New (to me) volume of The Obscure Cities coming soon!

I ran across this preview of The Theory of Grain and Sand at CBR:   The second book of The…

8 years ago

Lost Review: Attack the Block

Beginning in December 2005 with my history of apes in film essay “Gorilla of Your Dreams” (the substantially update and revised version appears in The Apes…

9 years ago

Polish edition of STEAMPUNK inspires national pride

  While doing my weekly search for online mentions of Tachyon books, I ran across a review of the Polish…

10 years ago

The fascinating and surprising LFO comes to DVD

At the 2013 Fantastic Fest, I was lucky enough to catch the inventive low budget Swedish picture LFO and starting…

11 years ago

Rayguns Over Texas garners several honorable mentions

  Even though though Gardner Dozois's The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-First Annual Collection came out back in late August,…

11 years ago

My Fantastic Fest Curtain Call

Here are my final reviews for Fantastic Fest 2014. Between illness and tech issues, I ended up seeing far less…

11 years ago

(Guest Post by Mark Finn) MondoCon 1: The Little Show-Within-A-Show That Could

I've been blessed over the years with many good and talented friends. One of which is aging hipster, writer, and…

11 years ago

Dude, Where Are All Your Fantastic Fest Reviews?

  You probably have noticed1 that I've only posted two days worth of reviews from Fantastic Fest, while the festival…

11 years ago

A trio of reviews from Fantastic Fest Day Two

  Fantastic Fest Day Two was full of potential and missed opportunities. A very odd film, Creeping Garden chronicles the…

11 years ago

Fantastic Fest Day One featured a mix of walruses, clones, and realities

Day one of Fantastic Fest 2014 delivered one excellent film and two lesser outings. Here's all the gory details.  …

11 years ago