The A-Z of Geek Cinema: J is for Jurassic Park
So, I try to make these columns about more than just “Holy crap, you guys, this movie is awesome.” I want to find a theme, a through-line, something to write about other than how...
So, I try to make these columns about more than just “Holy crap, you guys, this movie is awesome.” I want to find a theme, a through-line, something to write about other than how...
We all contain multitudes. That’s what Whitman said, right? All of us are many people. Daughter, sister, mother, aunt, coworker, friend, acquaintance, enemy… all in one body & mind. Every day, we put on...
The Hellboy films of Guilermo del Toro bear increasingly little resemblance to their source material as they go, and this, I feel, is for the better. They show all the hallmarks of del Toro’s...
What responsibility do we have to history? Should it be something held up as sacrosanct, or is it as malleable an object as the truth appears to be? History is written by the winners,...
Death is an inevitability. We all are born, we all live, and we all eventually must die. Different people handle it differently, though. There are those who scream against the injustice, those who mourn...
The King Arthur legend is a weird one. With roots in both traditional British myths and French fables, as well as what some have come to believe as historical fact, the legends have been...
There was a brief period in the late 90s til about 2001, where there was a spate of weird sci-fi films, ones concerned with reality and consciousness, with whether the world was real or...
The future is unwritten, at the best of times. Though, in this statement, there is the unspoken acknowledgement that yes, our children are the ones who will be the ones to write it. So...
High school can seem like hell, like the difference between life and death. Every moment is supposed to be leading to the “best years of your life,” and every decision is given momentous importance...
So hi. I am Nicholas. You may know me as the really funny one from the Nerds on the Rocks podcast, or maybe from the best nerd-punk band around, Robots and Racecars. In any...