I think my movie list is getting pointless. Like I opined last year, I spend quite a bit of time watching movies in other venues, and this year I can add Hulu to the mix of media I use to keep abreast of entertainment. The stationary bike, at least prior to surgery, kept me in front of Hulu more tha...

So here's my list of best singles, album tracks, and EPs from 2008. Unlike my Best Albums List, songs that were from a 2007 album but were released as singles in 2008 are eligible. But single reissues are not. (Which is why "Time to Pretend," Friendly Fires and Pacific are absent from ...

This'll be one of my last posts before Christmas, because I'm leaving for Sydney pretty much straight after work tomorrow and my internet access is limited when I'm away. I'll try to do a Christmas post, though! Dollhouse sneak peek! It's only a sort of extended scene from some bits we've seen befor...

"Best of the Year" lists start appearing as early as November, so we are perhaps a little late in asking folks around the community: Q: What were the best genre-related books, movies and/or shows you consumed in 2008? [We also added this note: They don't have to have been released in 2008. Feel free...

The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham My review rating: 5 of 5 starsA prophetic book. In the opening pages, you might see this as a neo-conservative warning against the socialism of post-War England, but closer reading delivers a different message, namely how fragile our civilization really is. In...

In a good week for reissues, Matador Records releases a remastered edition of Pavement's Brighten the Corners tomorrow. The 2-CD edition contains the remastered album, as well as 34 non-album tracks and a 62-page booklet. Other reissues out this week include four Flipper discs, and three albums each...

In a good week for reissues, Matador Records releases a remastered edition of Pavement's Brighten the Corners tomorrow. The 2-CD edition contains the remastered album, as well as 34 non-album tracks and a 62-page booklet. Other reissues out this week include four Flipper discs, and three albums each...

It begins like the fade-out at the end of a song. Barely sputtering guitar. A throbbing hum, a splatter of percussion. Way back in the mix, Shoeb Ahmad’s voice shouts with the bleak futility of a preacher in Hyde Park. His pent up monologue dimly echoes the likes of Ian Curtis or Vini Reilly. ...

I feel like bitching. I could bitch about the three local radio stations that have gone to "all Christmas carols; all the time" since about two-weeks before Thanksgiving, but I bitched about that last year and the year before as a matter of fact. But given that Thanksgiving has passed and ...

Looks like interesting times for sci-fi, horror and generally fantastical television: Sci-fi fans must be wondering what they did right. Twenty-seven years after the BBC last remade Day of the Triffids for television, the corporation has announced a new production of John Wyndham's book - and this i...