The Archive

  • Movie of the Week Poll

    Movie of the Week Poll


  • Devil World

    Devil World

    It’s fair to say that I was disappointed here. Perhaps a victim of my own expectations, this was the first revisit of an author in the series, and Eklund was the star to this point, so I was excited to see his name again. However, though certainly not the worst entry in the Bantam series,…


  • Trek to Madworld

    Trek to Madworld

    This novel is a perfect example of a situation where just because you can doesn’t necessarily equate to meaning you should. The narrative here is perfectly in line with some of the more outlandish, but still frequent, episodes of the show. Clearly even as early as 1978 Star Trek had become suffused with nearly omnipotent…


  • Horatio Hornblower

    Horatio Hornblower

    The trick with any discussion of this movie will be to divorce it from the very powerful childhood memories I have of the novel series upon which it is loosely based. I had read books before I came to C.S. Forester’s historical fiction, but they were of a decidedly more juvenile bent. Works like The…