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"In This Together" at Strange Horizons 20 Aug 2013 | 10:42 pm
I have a new column up at Strange Horizons this week! "In This Together" talks about the opposing (but sometimes complementary) explorations of duality presented by two very different movies set just...
Counting Cards 15 Aug 2013 | 10:30 pm
I went to the Cloisters yesterday for a little unicorn research (best kind of research). Though they are not big on anyone taking pictures and therefore I only have one of a flower waving merrily from...
The White Queen 12 Aug 2013 | 10:31 pm
Over at The AV Club on Friday, I reviewed The White Queen, the BBC coproduction now hopping the pond to Starz, where its ten episodes will acquire approximately 70% more butts than previously and make...
The Girl Stays in the Picture 4 Aug 2013 | 11:40 pm
Eight Silent Films and the Women Who Made Them Legendary The silent-movie boom of the early 20th century left an indelible mark on pop culture, and is perhaps the cinema era that cinema loves best. F...
TV Movies and Other Accidental Horrors 2 Aug 2013 | 11:52 pm
Sometimes I tell friends to watch things that are awful. It's harder if the only recommendation I have is, "No, you can't imagine how bad it is until you see it." It gets more awkward if it's somethin...
The Supersizers: Regency 1 Aug 2013 | 12:31 am
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a man in possession of historical foodstuffs must be in want of someone willing to eat wine-soaked rarebit at 10pm. That means another Supersizers, because...
AV Club Roundup, and Axe Cop 30 Jul 2013 | 02:04 am
So, I’ve been writing some things for AV Club, and it’s roundup time! The theatre-nerd part of me loved It’s the Hard Knock Life, which was a great no-frills documentary about a choreographer determi...
The Sharknado Drinking Game 19 Jul 2013 | 12:04 am
So, everyone experienced Sharknado the first time around, I hope? I know some people didn't, because they were asleep, or locked in barns by prankster friends, or staying in major hotel chains that do...
The Circus Tresaulti heads for Brazil! 17 Jul 2013 | 10:02 pm
Now that it's on the Darkside Books site, hopefully it's all official and okay to post about here: Mechanique will be coming to Brazil! (Oh, and the cover's kind of gorgeous, just saying.) O Circo M...
Pacific Rim. 12 Jul 2013 | 09:57 pm
I'm at convention this weekend; I had planned to arrive in time to watch the late-night rerun of Sharknado, because there was no way I was missing Sharknado. As it turns out, there was a way, since th...
