I am a promising movie reviewer!

I was so excited to learn this, via a shitty spam comment that I just deleted: Hi, We’ve browsed through your reviews and thought that they are really original and interesting! We would like to invite you to publish your reviews on [a site with no traffic that obviously no one reads], which provides an … more…

more ‘Doctor Who’ fan fiction

Are you sitting down? I’ve finally posted the next installment in my ongoing Doctor Who fan fiction story Tristan’s Father. It’s been almost a year since I posted the previous installment, which I acknowledge is just plain crazy. What forced me back to it — it’s always running through my head, but finding the time … more…

next to no posting today…

…except for the web video I’d previously scheduled to run. The something that had to give is finally this site, at least for today. Normal posting should resume tomorrow.

more about criticism as a full-time job

Apparently my QOTD yesterday about the state of film criticism caused a few ripples around the Web. I found a long post at a blog called Conversation | Film in response to it, a few points in which I feel merit a response in return. (The blog’s author appears to be one Matt Schneider, though … more…

I always feel like a real chump…

…when I’m asked by a publicist to hold my review of a film till opening day, and I agree to do so, and then I see that lots of other critics have already posted their reviews. Look for my review of Green Zone at 12:01am on Friday.