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I missed seeing this film in theaters, something for which I am fairly pleased. It is so terrifying just on your home TV, I can hardly imagine it on a screen twenty feet tall. I regard it as one of the better horror films of the ’00 decade, scary and intense without being gory, and solidly done in every category.… Read more →

Anonymous, which suggests Edward De Vere as the author of the Shakespeare corpus instead of Shakespeare himself, is one of the most marvelous works of imaginative fantasy in a long while. That it is entirely wishful thinking does nothing to detract from the enjoyment to be gotten from the film. Edward De Vere, Earl of Oxford – genius, mastermind, passionate,… Read more →

The Immortals Trevor Morris Rating: *** out of ***** I have been a fan of Trevor Morris ever since his excellent scores for The Tudors television show began to air, so I was naturally a bit surprised and pleased that he had been signed to score The Immortals, a 300-esque knockoff exploiting various elements of Greek mythology for slow-motion battle… Read more →

A lot of writers enjoy reading dictionaries and encyclopedias and thesauruses. These same have only rarely drawn me. Yet there is one sort of dictionary I can’t stay away from, and that’s the dictionary of symbolism. Collecting the symbolic meaning of virtually everything and providing literary examples, these prove to be both helpful and fascinating. I have here collected some of… Read more →

My review for Veronica Roth’s excellent debut novel Divergent is now live over at Fantasy Book Review. Check it out. Read more →