Everyone has their pulp — the stuff they read to relax and escape. Martin reads mystery novels; Steve likes westerns; I like short horror and fantasy. I have dozens and dozens of horror and fantasy anthologies; some of them are very good, very prestigious. Most of them are not. My approach to reading them is [...]
Archive for November, 2009
(Untitled) is a funny, intelligent satire about the avant-garde art world. But it is an extremely loving depiction, and all the main characters are bright, likeable, and sincere — well, almost all, you just can’t like the frightfully successful bad boy English artist who displays taxidermied animals festooned in pearls and sucking vacuum cleaner tubes. [...]
Movies are far more ephemeral and fleeting than books. The books I need to review I can stack up in my inbox against that time when I have time. This method of procrastination does not work for movies. As we have seen a number of movies recently — good and bad, classic and contemporary, pulp [...]
