It’s my birth-month! But you’re the one that gets a gift! The gift of all the awesome stuff I’ve found!
This is Monthly Mentions!
Category Archives: Movies and Tv
Monthly Mentions: June 2015
Another month gone, another batch of awesome stuff. This, is Monthly Mentions.
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Trailer Talk: Marvel’s Ant-Man
It’s a bird!
It’s a plane!
It’s not even from the same universe as Superman!
IT’S ANT-MAN!
Collin Pearman: Three Pathways To The Future Of Science Fiction
So, a little more than a month ago, I wrote a guest blog post for my good friend Collin Pearman, author of the excellent book “A Timeless Abandon“. In return, he wrote an article not only responding to my own, but going further on the topic.
This my friends, is that article.
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Three Pathways to the Future of Science Fiction
As he often does, Brandon Scott got me thinking. Recently, I had the honor of having him write a guest post for my blog, on the future of science fiction as he’d like to see it. His one word for what he’d like to see? MORE. And he’s right, of course. More is what we most certainly need. But how? I present to you three pathways (principles?) to making this future a reality. First and foremost, we need to actually care about the future of sci-fi. Continue reading
Monthly Mentions: May 2015
A bit late, I know, but I think it’s about time for a batch of last month’s best!
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Monthly Mentions: April 2015
This month has been a tad hard on me.
But there was still a lot of cool stuff I came across.
In fact, I have a whole list of them.
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Trailer Talk: Batman vs. Superman, Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens, and Ted 2
I’ve missed out on reviewing some BIG trailers lately.
So I say it’s about time for a…
Trailer Talk!
Starting with:
Batman vs. Superman
Oh, the delicious dichotomy. The current Superman movie was terrible, but the recent Batman movies were all really good.
So I must ask, who’s directing this one? The guy who made Man of Steel…and Sucker Punch? Oh, this is going to be such a let down. Continue reading
Review: Home
Home is a difficult movie to talk about. Mainly because it is a massive waste of potential. There is an echo of a good film here. Hints of nuanced morals and allegories. But all of that is thoroughly kneecapped by being shoved into the template of a kid-friendly movie.
Reviewers, Critics, Or Analysts?
Oh boy, a short and controversial article? One that deals with semantics and definitions?
I see no way this could possibly go wrong!
Monthly Mention: March 2015
March has been a great month for me, entertainment wise.
So allow me to share the spoils, with the third ever Monthly Mentions!
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Trailer Talk: Paper Towns, Pixels, Tommorowland, and Mission: Impossible – Rouge Nation
It’s time again, boys and girls!
Time to examine the new trailers the only way I know how!
With a Trailer Talk! Starting with:
Paper Towns
So, I have a problem: I’ve read the book. Continue reading
Monthly Mentions: February 2015
Another month has come and gone.
So here’s the stuff I liked during it!
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Favorite Blog Articles:
- Going Pro—Earning Rhino Skin & Learning Which Opinions Matter
- WRITING: “HOW DO YOU DO IT?”
- How to Lose your Mind in Ten Days
- Do’s and Don’ts of the Slush Pile
- Talk It Out: How To Punctuate Dialogue In Your Prose
- 25 THINGS I WANT TO SAY TO SO-CALLED “ASPIRING” WRITERS
- Sensing Comparison Experiment
- SCHOOL SUSPENDED BOY WHO CLAIMED TO BE THE LORD OF THE RINGS
- 10 Practical Writing Tips from the Greats
- An Author’s Complicated Relationship with Self-Promotion
Trailer Talk: 2/21/15
As winter ends, the movie landscape begins to shift.
Let us observe these changes with the time-honored tradition…
…of a Trailer Talk.
Starting with:
The Lazarus Effect
#Evilwillrise, and it will steal all the subtlety. Continue reading
Review: Paddington
This movie is:
- Charming
- Cute
- Whimsical
- Beautiful
- Heart-Warming
- Uplifting
- Lovable
- Poignant
- Imaginative
- Brilliant
- Cuddly
and perhaps most of all: incredibly British.
When this movie was first announced last year, I was dubious about its quality. The trailer consisted of just an extended scene of prat-falls and vaguely gross-out humor. Additionally, it was strictly a kids film, and it was based on an old book series. Continue reading
Monthly Mentions: January 2015
Another ongoing series!
As if I don’t already have enough of these!
As the month comes to a close, I thought I would make it a habit to set a record of the things I liked/discovered over the month so that I can take a look back and see how my taste in media grew and changed.
It also seems like a really great idea for an article, and a chance to give some shout-outs to my blogger friends.
So, allow me to present my favorite things this month, presented by category, but not in any particular order.
As a side note, these are not necessarily things that were made this month, just things I enjoyed during the time period.
Here we go! Continue reading
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