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“Nathan,” you ask, “why are you so silent? What are you working on that keeps you away from your own blog?” That’s a fair question. I wish I had more to tell you, or more that was in a stage at which it could be told about: I’m under contract to edit a couple of…

Feast (2005) – If you’re looking for a movie which concurrently honors and subverts horror movie tropes, forget the criminally overrated Scream. Feast does it much better.  In classic fashion, a mismatched assortment of stock characters (no character names, only labels and life expectancies) are trapped in a middle-of-nowhere bar by a trio of fast, vicious…

I’ll be at World Horror Con, April 28th through May 1st in Provo.  Here’s my schedule as it currently stands: Thursday at 2pm: “Revisiting Lovecraft: Why is he popular and who is writing Lovecraftian horror?” (with Dan Wells, Jason V. Brock, Michael R. Collings, Eric Swedin) Thursday at 9:30pm: “Surviving the Zombie Apocalypse” (with Carter Reid, Michaelbrent Collings, Jaleta Clegg, and Joe McKinney)…

The Saratov Approach (2013) – Let’s get this out of the way, okay?  The two main actors are too old to convincingly play twenty-year-old LDS missionaries, but not by much. There were definitely elders in my mission whose ages I originally guessed to be about ten years more than they were, and Corbin Allred and Maclain…

What’s the difference between Comic Con and Comic Con FanX?  I still haven’t figured it out, but I’ll be there for FanX (March 24-26), and you can find me on these panels: Friday, March 25: 10 AM: “We’ll Always Judge a Book By Its Cover” – Covers are far more important than the platitude implies. Make…

Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation (2015) – The Mission: Impossible franchise is in danger of becoming like the James Bond franchise: You can remember that you saw them, and you can remember that you enjoyed them, and you can remember some of the scenes and stunts, but you just can’t remember what happened in each…

I got slammed on Facebook for sharing this article about the wage-gap myth and President Obama’s reporting requirement which is going to cost “only” $400 per employees for employers with 100+ employees. Actually, what I mostly got slammed for was my comment introducing it: “Dear Mr. President: Screw you, and every jackass that voted for…

I really gotta start thinking of titles for these, because I hate seeing stuff with names like “Untitled #22.”

Jack the Giant Slayer (2013) – I’m mostly glad that this take on “Jack and the Beanstalk” wasn’t a standard-issue Hollywood revisionist take (you know, where the good guys from the original story are really the bad guys and vice versa, like in How the Grinch Stole Christmas and Maleficent and…).  Other than that, it was…

Sculpted from polymer clay.  I think I’ll call it “This Noble Visage.”  (Pop can for scale, and also because I had to set it somewhere to take the pictures.)