Originally published in Fantastic Stories of the Imagination, January 2017. You know what kind of stories we don’t see much of, anymore, in print or visual media? Well, that’s actually one of those questions possessed of multiple answers, and always will be, because the fact of the matter is that certain sub-genres fall in and […]
Look, the worst thing that can happen to you at the movies is the commentary track from the fellow patron who understands nothing, who doesn’t get the point, who sometimes advises his fellows what’s happening with absolute certainty even though his explanation suggests that he’s watching a completely different movie on his phone. We all […]
Interspecies love story just seen theatrically: THE SHAPE OF WATER (2017), starring Sally Hawkins, Doug Jones, Richard Jenkins, Octavia Spencer, Michael Shannon, and Nick Searcy. This is the one about the mute lady falling in love with a merman. I love Sally Hawkins. I really only know her from a very few movies, of which […]