Trainwreck (2015)
Aug24

Trainwreck (2015)

Phony Cutting Edge, Phony Movie: Trainwreck (2015)   Where the hell do I even start with how much I hated this film? I was having a rare evening at the cinema with my ex- partner, so unusually I had looked at a few reviews.  Our track record on going to the cinema when we were together was nothing short of abysmal. Very different tastes, to put it mildly.  Still, the word on this one was so good that I didn’t even look too wistfully...

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The Chronicles of Conan : Volume 12 – The Beast King of Abombi : Part 2
Aug24

The Chronicles of Conan : Volume 12 – The Beast King of Abombi : Part 2

Death of a Queen: The Chronicles of Conan Volume 12 The Beast King of Abombi And Other Stories Part 2   These ongoing pieces are overviews rather than reviews and therefore contain spoilers galore.     The wild sea is beating Against the grey sands; The woman, the sea-woman, Stretches her hands. Her eyes they are mystic And cold as the sea, With slender white fingers She beckons to me –   There are woods in the sea Though the leaves...

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The Innsmouth Cycle – The Taint of the Deep Ones
Aug18

The Innsmouth Cycle – The Taint of the Deep Ones

The Innsmouth Cycle The Taint of the Deep Ones Selected and Edited by Robert M.  Price An Occasional Look at Lovecraftian Anthologies: 6     The first thing I have to do here is to give a truly geekish fanboy rave to the introduction by Robert M.  Price, who also selects the tales and poetry here.  Yes, that’s what I said: the introduction. I was two pages into this near-eight pages of really tiny type when I stopped, shook...

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Revisiting Larsson’s The Girl Who Played with Fire
Aug12

Revisiting Larsson’s The Girl Who Played with Fire

Revisiting Larsson’s The Girl Who Played with Fire       “I’ve had a miserable week and I’m in a bad mood.  You know what the worst thing is?  Every time I turn around there’s some fucking pile of shit with a beer belly in my way acting tough.  Now I’d like to leave.  So move it.”           — Lisbeth Salander   There is a scene late in Stieg Larsson’s 2006 novel The Girl Who Played with Fire where investigative journalist Mikael...

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The Chronicles of Conan  Volume 12  The Beast King of Abombi
Aug12

The Chronicles of Conan Volume 12 The Beast King of Abombi

The Chronicles of Conan Volume 12 The Beast King of Abombi And Other Stories Part 1   These ongoing pieces are overviews rather than reviews and therefore contain spoilers galore.     It’s always a little surprising to me that so many fans of writer Roy Thomas and artist John Buscema’s 70s Marvel Comics run of Conan the Barbarian would seem to have preferred it if these stories had been reprinted on that original, more...

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