I mentioned in one of last posts how great a writer Stephen King is. I just finished two of his recent novels, The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon and Blaze, which was written under his pseudonym Richard Bachman. The first of the two is probably the most realistic. 9 year old Patricia McFarland is walking [...]
“Blaze” of Glory: Review for “Blaze” and “The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon” by Stephen King
I, Spy: Review for “Burn After Reading”
The Coen Brothers are back from their Best Picture winning No Country for Old Men, one of the darkest films of 2007. The brothers are famous for such black comedies as Raising Arizona, The Big Lebowski, and Fargo and their newest film, Burn After Reading, is one of their funniest. When Osbourne Cox (a fantastic [...]
Take One: The “King” of Horror
One of my favorite writers is Stephen King. Yes, he writes lots of scary stuff, but 1. what’s wrong with writing in a certain genre and 2. he doesn’t just write horror. Or, if you think about it, everyone writes horror to some extent. But my point is that King is a good writer period, [...]
War Games: Review for “Tropic Thunder”
Tropic Thunder is the story of stereotypes in the movie nusiness. Robert Downey Jr. does a terrific job as method actor Kirk Lazurus, this time playing a black guy. Before production, he went under skin pigmentation. Kirk is like Daniel Day-Lewis on crack. Kirk has five Oscars and is from Australia. Jack Black plays an [...]
