I came to a conclusion while watching “Rampage.” Many cinematic adaptations of video games stink because folks in Hollywood think they know more about good storytelling than th…
From the first frame, “A Quiet Place” hooks you and draws you into its world. There’s no introductory montage to set things up, a la “The Fellowship of the Ring”. No voic…
Early Monday afternoon, I was sitting in my reading room (aka The bathroom) revisiting an old interview with Megadeth’s Dave Mustaine when the lights flickered. They flashed on a…
First things first: the film adaptation of “Ready Player One” is massively, MASSIVELY different from the Ernest Cline-penned novel it’s based upon. The story unspools differe…
In October of last year, I decided to stop screwing around and declare war on my over-abundant body mass. Weight loss has always been a herculean task for me. I imagine it is for e…
In today’s world of endless cinematic franchises, sequelitis is a malady movie audiences see far too often. Sequels get overcooked, bloated with unnecessary side plots and charac…
I think I understand how the dinosaurs might have felt when they first caught a glimpse of that fiery ball of death that descended from space to end their world. I can best describ…
Every day at a scheduled time, author Jeff Wheeler shuts off his phone, dons a pair of noise-cancelling headphones, turns on a white noise machine and sits down at his computer. Hi…
If you see enough movies these days, you’re bound to come away from more than a few feeling that you’ve seen that before. Less prevalent are the movies that make you feel like …
Nothing we own on this Earth is actually ours. The particles in our belongings, our loved ones, ourselves … they once belonged to our celestial predecessors, to stars that di…
It’s said that the devil is in the details, and editing and pacing are two interlinked details of cinema that can sink a movie even when it has a lot of other things going for it…
Execution is everything. You can come up with the greatest idea of all time, but it will all come to nothing if don’t do a good job realizing it. History is littered with the wre…
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