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Author’s Note: I’m told that Project Hail Mary is doing boffo b.o. in the American cinema currently. It looks like a really good movie, and I look forward to seeing it. It’s also based on an Andy Weir book, and I am a big fan of the film adaptation of his first book, The Martian.…
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Unless you’re over forty, or from the U.K., you’ve probably never heard of the great 80s/90s band World Party. It was the creation of a Welsh dude named Kurt Wallinger, who, like many other musical geniuses (Lindsey Buckingham springs to mind) wrote all his own songs, and made demo tapes by playing every instrument. Pretty…
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A lot of movies have been made about a so-called eco-apocalyse, in which catastrophic climate change, or pollution, or crop-failure, or overpopulation, or some mixture of all-of-the-above wipes out big swathes of humanity. And some of those scenarios might yet play-out if we keep sleepwalking (make that speed-walking) into the future. Right now, however, environmental…
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Last year, I wrote a post about a fine non-fiction book called Paperbacks from Hell: The Twisted History of ‘70s and ‘80s Horror Fiction. I enjoyed the book primarily for the way the author, Grady Hendrix, mixes his obvious love of old, pulpy horror novels with an enormous amount of mockery and snark. Basically, he…
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Author’s Note: This morning, I read that the 2026 Oscars Ceremony, which was held last night, omitted the great character actor Tom Noonan from its In Memoriam segment. I can’t throw stones at the Oscars. When Noonan passed away a few weeks ago, I didn’t say anything about it, either, in part because I had…
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I’ve been reading an excellent non-fiction book by Paul Fischer called The Last Kings of Hollywood: Coppola, Lucas, Spielberg—and the Battle for the Soul of American Cinema. It’s very similar to another great book I read recently (and subsequently wrote a post about), Don’t Stop: Why We Still Love Fleetwood Mac’s “Rumours,” in that both…
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I was very proud to see that Nole has an entry on Kevin Burton Smith’s excellent website The Thrilling Detective! Thank you, Mr. Smith!!!
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Despite a youth in which I read literally hundreds of sci-fi novels, I somehow missed the works of Clifford D. Simak. I would blame the fact that Simak wrote his best books long before I was born, in the Golden Age of Science Fiction, but I managed to read other giants from that period like…
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Ash Clifton, Writer 