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This category includes reviews of books, films, TV shows, SF conventions, and opinions.
This adult animated movie haunted my dreams when I was a kid. Why am I thinking about it tonight? Because Animafest started today, the most awesome animation festival on the planet and it happens to be held in my home town. 😉 Also, am writing about it and will enjoy working late this evening – […]
Read More Heavy MetalI grew up watching a lot of films that were totally inappropirate for my age. There was no control. There was a VCR and a lot of Betamax tapes we just called beta for short. I was lucky: my family was very well off and I actually owned a VCR. The beta tapes, as far […]
Read More End(er)Figured out what I am going to be doing for Halloween this year. Instead of watching Arsenic and Old Lace (a tradition of mine) I thought I’d go for a movie marathon, of Three Flavours Cornetto trilogy, especially since I still have not seen the latest installment, The World’s End. Which is SF.
Read More HalloweenWhen you dive into another person’s fiction so deeply that you feel their characters as if they are of your own making, or, if not that, then at least as if you can move them outside boundaries that media like television imposes on them, then you’re a bit like a mad woman, a crazy old […]
Read More Reading fan-fiction (and sometimes, more often, writing it)