When I heard about the Netflix remake of 'Death Note,' I was incredibly skeptical. Every new piece of information - from the Americanization to the casting - made me sink down a little lower in my metaphorical chair. I didn't expect much when I took the plunge into giving it a try, so I was… Continue reading Netflix’s Death Note: The Good, the Bad, and the Negative Examples
I never do writing prompts, for several reasons. There isn't enough room for me to explore and describe everything I want, I have difficulty connecting with characters in 500 words or less, and often prompts feel pointless. I've enjoyed short stories in the past, but prompts? They're much too short. I'd rather not. Yesterday, knowing… Continue reading The Prompting
The Legend of the Sword, Hollywood's newest take on the legend of King Arthur, is nothing mind-blowing or utterly original. However, it has my favorite cinematic portrayal of King Arthur to date as Charlie Hunnam takes the role of reluctant legend and gives us something rarely seen on-screen: An Arthur with charisma. I have loved… Continue reading Charisma and Pretense: The Legend of the Sword
I'm not really sure what happened with War for the Planet of the Apes. It was like the executives sat down and said, "Yeah, the last two were good, but let's do something different. Let's do something like Unbroken meets Predator meets The Great Escape." Someone may have said, "You realize our main characters are… Continue reading That Which Is Caesar’s: Apes and Apotheosis
I used to believe firmly in genres, and in the idea that a author could only write one of them at a time. Either a book was high fantasy or it was science fiction. Occasionally you could blend two of the together and write, say, a historical steampunk novel, but there were strict rules to… Continue reading What Fullmetal Alchemist and del Toro Taught Me
