The Tao of D&D

So, you're a group of aliens and you're watching the earth... and you notice that while the earthlings are interested in throwing up...

The film blog Safety Last managed to climb over 200 page views yesterday (it's at 233 now), having reached 11 posts with a visit to eve...

Going to take a short break and write another post today. I just finished watching Madame Web. I'd like to talk about it. Went into it w...

For fun.

This isn't a post about worldbuilding — but there will be more of those. This is a post about the failure of art.  I once sat in on a fi...

"The Miracle of the Andes", that's what they called it. Many people come up to me and say, that had they been there they surel...

Following up on the last post  about film criticism, I tactfully declined to talk about "critical thinking."  So, what is critical...

I like questions.  I understand there are people who fear that someone will ask them a hard question, but for me, questions are a gift.  A q...

Watching the 2009 movie, The Trotsky .  They're talking about making a change through protesting, and the aged law professor is saying, ...

It annoys the hell out of me when I see people bitching about superhero films.  Compared to the wide, deep, incomprehensible stream of garba...

Mazes and Monsters is a 1982 made-for-TV morality play that warns viewers against the dangers of participating in role-playing games, sugg...

Featuring a full post. It starts here. Let me preface by saying that this post is not about the new, 2019 movie, Joker .  I have not s...

My chance tonight to see the film, so at last I can stop dodging every word written about it on the internet. I'd like to deconstru...

As I might have predicted, Brie Larson, aka Captain Marvel, is being raked over the coals prior to the opening of the film on March 7th by a...

I like films.  Enormously.  I don't really care what the subject of the film is, so long as it is done in a way that causes me to think,...