Happy New Year, everyone. This is around the time I post my "Best of/Worst of the Year" lists but I'm going to hold off for ...

A pair of small time gangsters join a raucous party in a converted barn when they're attacked by vampires in 2025's Sinners , not ...

A quick-witted, cynical private detective tackles a murder case in the desolate California town of Bakersfield in 2025's Honey Don...

Brigitte Bardot has died at the age of 91. I guess I'll be thinking about her all day. How do I convey what she meant to the cultural ...

Well, AI is wrong again, and about Indiana Jones again. After writing about The Last Crusade yesterday, I went to lunch and afterwards I ...

Happy third day of Christmas, everyone, though many of you are still in the 26th, Saint Stephen's Day, aka Wren Day, aka Boxing Day. I c...

Happy Christmas Day to those of you who've just entered the zone. You do plan on celebrating all twelve days, don't you? Don't...

Merry Christmas, everyone. It's already Christmas Day here in Japan and I watched a Japanese Christmas movie a couple days ago, the on...

There's a new chapter of my webcomic, Dekpa and Deborah , online to-day. See if you can spot anything sexual in the imagery or story. ...

The trailer for Christopher Nolan's adaptation of The Odyssey is out. I don't know, I like Christopher Nolan but I kind of think ...

In 1993, a battle occurred in Somalia called the Battle of Mogadishu in which 19 American military personnel were killed. The event is dra...

I finished watching season two of Deep Space Nine and couldn't resist starting the next. That was always an effective finale to premier...

Recently, Quentin Tarantino faced some backlash regarding his criticism of actor Paul Dano, whom he called, among other things, "weak s...

Ally McBeal seems like it has a million Christmas episodes so this seems like a good time of year to go back to it. But this week I watched...

The first episode of Fallout , season 2 premiered on Amazon Prime last night, written by showrunners Geneve Robertson-Dworet and Graham Wa...

What would it be like to live in constant, unrelenting, physical pain? I'm lucky not to live with such a condition but the protagonist...

The world just keeps getting uglier. There's the recent shooting at Brown University, the antisemitic rampage in Australia, and the vari...

As Agent Cooper once said, Yesterday I was at McDonalds for lunch reading a book on Japanese history. I read about the formation of the ...

I haven't been enjoying the Bajoran political episodes of Deep Space Nine so much on my recent rewatch but I did like the 1994 episode ...

The long cultural life of 2000's American Psycho is kind of fascinating. I've never read the Bret Easton Ellis novel it's based...