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Continue reading →: Quests, Heroic and Otherwise
I never actually owned a copy of HeroQuest, the 1989 game that introduced a generation of young nerds (myself included) to the idea of the dungeon crawl and TTRPGs. A neighbor owned one, instead, and it entrhalled me. Still does, a bit. I now have the board and box cover…
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Continue reading →: “Sometimes the sun sets so suddenly…” – The Ghost of Sierra de Cobre (1964)
The fact that a movie like this can still exist without my ever having heard of it before now is one of the things that keeps me alive. Conceived as a pilot for a supernatural TV series that never happened (it would have been called The Haunted), The Ghost of…
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Continue reading →: While I Was Away
Twenty years ago, I did something that remains the best thing I have ever done: I married the love of my life, my spouse and partner, Grace. We celebrated our anniversary over the last few days, during which time we stayed in an adorable cabin next to a mountain stream,…
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Continue reading →: It’s a Metaphor
Tonight, I watched Men, a movie that is more awkward to write/talk about than anything since Us (2019). I had a good time and liked it fine. I’m not here to write a review, though you may be able to extrapolate something of a review from what I’m about to…
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Continue reading →: Panicked
Well, another Panic Fest is more-or-less over. Technically, there’s another night or two of programming, and there’s a chance I may go out tomorrow night to catch Watcher or The Sadness, but give or take, it’s done. I saw a few good movies, the best of which was probably Spider…
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Continue reading →: Apocalypses, Cancelled and Otherwise
Anyone who has been following me very long will be familiar with one particular shot from Pacific Rim; a scene from the film’s (great) world-establishing montage, in which a kid puts toys of jaegers and kaiju on a toy shelf. It’s the shot I always use when I’m talking about…
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Continue reading →: Now, More Than Ever
As you saw in my last post, a lot has been going on lately. I mentioned a few things, all of them adjacent to the movies, and now it’s time to talk about them a little more… First off, Panic Fest starts next week. For those who aren’t local to…
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Continue reading →: Nightmare of Empire
By now, it is no longer a matter of much surprise that I have been working extensively on the newest attempt to bring the Iron Kingdoms, setting of games like Warmachine and Hordes, to the world of tabletop roleplaying. And I think that I’ve made it pretty clear already that…
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Continue reading →: “You got to suffer to be born again.” – The Unknown Terror (1957)
What feels like a lifetime ago but was, in actual fact, only a decade, Silvia Moreno-Garcia and I co-edited a little anthology called Fungi that was about, well, I think the title makes it fairly clear. This was the culmination of a pretty much lifelong fascination with fungal creatures, on…
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Continue reading →: “It’s so boring living in the spooky town with its creepy witchcraft museum.” – Incubus (1982)
“Movies like this aren’t totally worthless. They provide employment for a number of people.” – Vincent Canby John Hough directed one of my favorite haunted house movies, The Legend of Hell House, which somehow manages to have a PG rating while still containing all of the lurid, sweaty sexuality of…
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