Chuck Wendig’s Zeroes Stages a Brute-Force Attack on the Techno-Thriller Genre
If there’s one plot device that’s hard to successfully translate to the page, it’s computer hacking; it’s no simple task to generate…
Rich Rosell
The Red: First Light Is a Scarily Plausible Military SF Thriller
Linda Nagata is best known for her loosely interwoven series The Nanotech Succession, considered by those in the know to be one of…
Decoding the Storm: Mark Z. Danielewski’s The Familiar, Volume 1
If dictionaries consisted of complete phrases, and if in that special dictionary you were to look up “humongously complex magnum…
Preaching the Unholy Scriptures of Clive Barker’s The Scarlet Gospels
It can be a treacherous journey when an author decides—decades later—to resurrect a beloved character as the centerpiece of a new…
Throwback Thursday: Riding the Midnight Meat Train with Clive Barker
In the mid-1980s Stephen King famously proclaimed, “I have seen the future of horror; his name is Clive Barker.” This was…
Sci-Fi/Fantasy Throwback Thursday: True Neuromance
With the new William Gibson book The Peripheral, the author’s first far-future story in two decades, arriving this month, it…
More Masterpieces for People Who Love Downton Abbey
We can’t get enough of Downton Abbey. From Lady Mary’s love triangles, to the sumptuous costumes, to every disapproving glare…
Can’t-Miss Classics to Buy in The Criterion Collection Sale
Any true film buff is, by definition, also a Criterion Collection buff. It’s the go-to source for important and classic films on DVD…
Boxed Sets on DVD and Blu-ray
Who doesn’t enjoy a good binge-watch? Whether it’s savoring the full run of a popular television series, studying the early…
Wide-Angle Madness In David Cronenberg’s Consumed
David Cronenberg is a film director with a flair for the visually abstract (Scanners, Videodrome, eXistenZ, Crash), and a particular talent…