I have nothing to say. I don’t know enough about theme. Or plot. Or subtext. People will laugh at it. It’s not as good as those finished books I read and loved as a kid. I don’t know how to write. My spelling sucks. I didn’t go to college, or…

For decades, the editors of mainstream magazines would only consider fantasy stories by mainstream fantasists such as Roald Dahl, Charles Beaumont and John Collier. …

My parents were blue collar Democrats. This meant nothing to me as a little boy. I thought people who didn’t agree on things with my parents were just adults. My folks still went out to dinners, or ‘times’ with those people. They came over for parties. I remember the living…

“It would be unrealistic, if not downright foolish, to believe we can claim victory in the war on terrorism if Saddam is still in power.” “I don’t consider the war on Iraq the war on terror.” “Diplomacy over avoiding war is dead. … I do not see any alternative. …

COMPULSION (1959) is a solid fictionalized drama about the Leopold and Loeb murder. Dean Stockwell and Bradford Dillman play the sorta-kinda-you-know-what-we-mean “strange” friends who think they’re pretty hot stuff, better than everyone else. Without a lot of warning, they kill a boy, because they can. If you don’t know anything…

You don’t even have to read about his life to know that Rod Serling had a particular hatred for racism. In interviews with family and friends the topic comes up repeatedly. …

With apologies to Jerome Bixby and Rod Serling It’s a REAL GOOD THING that Democrats ran away from their jobs in Texas and spread COVID in DC while pulling this pointless stunt! Oh, I think it’s just GREAT, and so does EVERYONE ELSE! And who could think it’s bad that…

You ‘resisted’ while crying about ‘unity.’ But don’t worry; no one ever believed you wanted to unite with people you think are dumb and evil. Some of us DO wonder about all your supposed love for diversity, though. …

VANISHING ON 7th STREET does such a good job at creating a nightmare situation that I happily ignore the truly dumb plot element that could make you dismiss the whole movie. Though you have to get past a major flaw in its logic, its situation is genuinely nightmarish. One night…