There's no good way to approach a review of this without sinking neck-deep into the current socio-political quagmire. There just isn...

Another short but hopefully thought-provoking post today. First, I know this has the potential to draw in issues of social justice and o...

Now that we've gotten that no doubt controversial post title out of the way - yes, according to this article on The Passive Voice Blog ,...

A bit of a brief post today, as I'm in what's typically the busiest week of the year at work. If you've been around this blog fo...

Today I'm starting a new push towards regular blogging, and with that, a Monday post every week about some kind of media - film, televis...

More than seven years ago, while I was writing KILLER INSTINCTS, I read Brian Garfield's 1972 crime novel DEATH WISH for the first tim...

(Yes, I know it's been over nine months since I wrote a blog post. That's a loooooong story. But here we have a new post, so...yay!)...

I was able to attend an advance screening of the film BLACK MASS this past Thursday, followed by a question and answer period with Dick Le...

Note: Not actually based on true events... There are a lot of cheesy, low-budget World War Two movies out there, especially in the last ...

It has been many years - too long, really - since I've seen any of the original three Mad Max movies in their entirety. I know I'v...

It's been two days, and I'm still processing my feelings about this movie. It was grim, brutal, intensely graphic, and both heroic...

I'm not a huge comic book fan. Not because I dislike the medium - I think comics can tell some amazing stories - but because they can ho...

When I first saw the trailers for Sabotage, I was enthused but otherwise wasn't expecting much. I've been happy to see Schwarzeneg...

The first three Dirty Harry movies came out between 1971 and 1976. Then, there was a hiatus of seven years, until 1983's Sudden I...

I've seen this movie kicking around on Netflix for a while now, as well as Amazon Prime Instant Streaming, and since it falls into a t...