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Owing to the mighty emancipation which Twitter is undergoing, I made myself a new account there (I deleted my old one a couple of years ago, and had stopped using it a year or two before that). If you feel the urge to follow me, it’s @NathanShumate. At present, I’m just retweeting with commentary (which…

Compound Fracture (2014) – An adult son, with his fiancee and his orphaned teenage nephew, finally goes home to the compound where his estranged father still lives, his lifelong paranoia about the supernatural exacerbated by his declining mental faculties.  But it turns out that something else “came home” with him, something that turns Dad’s supernatural…

[cross-posted from GoodReads] On the one hand: This was written to be part of an “Ace Doubles” volume, and it shows the flaws common to most of those “filler” novels: arbitrary worldbuilding, characterization by convenience, an obligatory de minimis love interest, and an unquestioned faith in the viability and desirability of a coercively realized utopia…

The Midnight After (2014) – A rickety little shuttle bus running from one part of Hong Kong to another in the wee small hours with a cadre of idiosyncratic passengers runs into a bizarre problem: When they get where they’re going, they discover that everyone else has disappeared. The whole city, and possibly the world. …

Mr. Canton and Lady Rose, aka Miracles: The Canton Godfather (1989) – Right after Jackie Chan’s first flush of for-real American stardom, he started making two movies a year — one American and very Americanized, and one in Hong Kong.  This is the Hong Kong feature for 1989, and Chan (director and star) plays it up…