Almost three years ago, I dismissed the movie "Pulse 3: Invasion" while reviewing "Pulse 2: Afterlife" by penning the following unflattering characterization: “Pulse 3: Invasion,” directed and written by Joel Soisson, occurs in a world reduced to rubble thanks to the...
Originally published in Shawnee News, a middle school newspaper (June, 1999) The question in this article's headline is not going to be answered. The fact of the matter is, there may never be such an answer, for how can you explain the events in Littleton, Colorado?...
This is the first movie review that I ever had published. It appeared in the June 1999 edition of "Shawnee News," the school newspaper of "Shawnee Middle School" in Easton, PA. Its title was simply, "Movie Review."To better understand who I was as a human being when I...
This is the story of how I was assaulted and given a concussion by members of the Lehigh Valley Tea Party on February 3, 2022. They never told me why, but I had been invited to the event and was attacked shortly after one of the members saw one of my Salon articles....
“Bad day? Kill yourself. Heart broken? Kill yourself. Parking ticket? Kill yourself.” When Dean (Nadine Crocker) utters this line in the 2022 film “Cont;nue,” it is with a wry, glib and darkly self-aware gallows humor. In lesser stories, that approach might be a mere...
My Introduction… to Medium (as shown on medium.com): On Feb. 3rd of this year, an attorney named Tom Carroll physically attacked me. He wasn’t alone; two other men helped him, but I don’t know their names. I do know this: I suffered a concussion, and still have...
Today marks a sad occasion. Exactly 136 years ago, a veteran who was injured serving his country during the Civil War was humiliated by a president... a man who had hired a substitute. The Civil War veteran was Alfred Denny. During his time of service, he was thrown...
As a film critic, I try to have an open mind about the movies that I watch and rewatch. In the case of “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre” — not the 1974 classic directed by Tobe Hooper, but the 2003 cult classic directed by Marcus Nispel — I return to the flick again and...
"10,000 BC" does not deserve its bad rap. It is not the worse reviewed film in director Roland Emmerich's oeuvre (that distinction belongs to "Moon 44"), but it is perhaps his most infamous. "Boring" is a word that I often hear from casual moviegoers who have watched...
The “Pulse” trilogy is to the Internet what certain episodes of “The Twilight Zone” are to space travel and computers. (I am going to focus on the second movie, “Pulse 2: Afterlife,” but also discuss the other two films.) That anachronistic take on tech is one of the...