Gods of Wokeness
The golden age is over. Works of art are no longer produced to quench a bored populace, who thirst for…
The golden age is over. Works of art are no longer produced to quench a bored populace, who thirst for…
All artists are influenced by the previous generation of artists. Westerns were part of John Carpenter’s cinematic diet growing up….
Now that this sad shit-show of a saga is over, the only thing we have left, is the thought, ‘what…
If there’s one thing John Brunner is known for, it would be the culture shock he gives readers via his…
Life imitates art. It inevitably has to, because art starts off by imitating reality in an attempt to explain it…
In the end, when one encounters a monster, be it a shark or a homicidal terrorist, it doesn’t really matter why the monster is doing what’s it doing, understanding it is not the issue. Getting away from it and surviving is. But, for an audience, the unknowable, the ‘why’, is the most scariest aspect of all, and the Halloween series of movies have explored every aspect of this.
I once bought a novel, Robopocalypse (2011) by Daniel H. Wilson, at an airport bookstore for a fast, time-killing read and while I…
When Flash Gordon was ‘again’ resurrected back (thanks, Princess Aura for the first time) into pop culture by Seth MacFarlane in his…
There’s nothing more bewilderingly mind-numbing than watching a science-fiction movie franchise get butchered and killed then brought to life again,…