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The Matrix Resurrections review

    THE MATRIX was never a movie that needed a sequel and the Wachowski sisters originally wanted to do a prequel that eventually became THE ANIMATRIX "Second Renaissance" shorts. Instead, we got the controversial Matrix Reloaded and Matrix Revolutions. I personally loved the movies more for their world-building than their actual content. I was very excited but somewhat iffy about a fourth movie in the franchise since I wasn't sure where the movie could possibly go.

    Hilariously, the first thi...

Blade Runner 2019 vol. 1: Los Angeles review

    Anyone who knows me, knows that I am a huge BLADE RUNNER fan. I mean, I am a fan to a ridiculous level and I have an addition to not just the original film but the sequel, original DO ANDROIDS DREAM OF ELECTRIC SHEEP, its comic book adaptation, and even own a copy of the video game. So, I was definitely going to get these comic book spin offs even before I knew if they were any good. Are they any good? Oh hell yes. This is one of those rare comic books that I think is something that p...

Detroit: Become Human (video game) review

    DETROIT: BECOME HUMAN by David Cage was something that I bought a long time ago but never got around to playing because I'd heard so much bad about it. I also heard about David Cage's general awful behavior and that soured me on it too since he was both the writer as well as director of the game. However, since the game was bought used and I'm a fan of Bryan Deckhart, who plays one of the three protagonists, I decided to give it a shot.

    Overall, my feelings are mixed. On one hand, the ga...

Writing for 2022

Space Academy Dropouts: Basically, I signed a deal with Podium in hopes of expanding my audiobook audience (I love Crossroad Press don't get me wrong and am sticking with them on my other series) to do a humorous wacky space opera series in the same respect as The Rules of Supervillainy is for superheroes. Vance Turbo is the eponymous Space Academy drop out who gets conscripted/press ganged onto a suicide mission of similar misifts by Division Twelve. A bunch of sun destroying weapons are lost i...

The Murder of Modius is out

I still enjoy a good tabletop RPG and decided to make a supplement for the first time since HALT EVIL DOER! a decade ago. It's for VAMPIRE: THE MASQUERADE FIFTH EDITION and presently out. Special thanks to Robert Sullivan for editing it and providing the art.

"Modius is dead and the whole city of Gary is a suspect!"

The Murder of Modius is a Chronicle for Vampire: The Masquerade 5th Edition made for 2-5 players. It is set in Gary, Indiana where the player characters have been summoned in ord...

Liches: Dance Macabre review

    I just finished reading this supplement and wanted to actually talk about it. So, if you don't want to hear me discuss a third party supplement about Voldemorts, Azalins, Vecnas, and Saurons then this is probably not the thread for you.

    First of all, I've never really thought much about liches in games. For whatever reason, I've never had much call for them and that might be because I tended to do lower level games. By the time the player characters were to the point they mig...

Cyberpunk City: The Machine Killer by D.L. Young review

    CYBERPUNK CITY: THE MACHINE KILLER is a cyberpunk thriller that I very much enjoyed. As anyone who knows me can attest, I am a huge fan of cyberpunk. Almost as much as I am of vampires. There's no vampires here but unlike the undead, the cyberpunk genre has a dearth of books being put out every year. So I was very happy to find a series that would make use of all the tropes of the near future dystopias envisioned by William Gibson, Mike Pondsmith, Ridley Scott, and Bruce Sterling. If ...

Reminiscence (2021) review

    

    Reminiscence is a movie that very strongly reminds me of a forgotten cult-classic called Strange Days starring Ralph Fiennes, Angela Bassett, Juliette Lewis, and Tom Sizemore. It was directed by Kathryn Bigelow and written by James Cameron and Jay Cocks. It takes a lot of the elements of that film about a conspiracy, memory recordings, and civil unrest then adds elements of Chinatown as well as Alfred Hitchcock.

    It also updates the setting from then near-future 1999 to a global-w...

Blade Runner: Black Lotus episodes 1-4 review

    I admit, before I begin my full review, I have mixed feelings regarding this one. I am a big fan of Blade Runner but it is often imitated and never duplicated. It has been an immense influence on countless works of sci-fi dystopia as well as the cyberpunk genre as a whole. My own Agent G series owes a significant debt to it. The closest anyone has come to making anything as good was, of course, Blade Runner 2049. That movie, though, was not a financial success at the box office. So it surpri...

Psycho Killers in Love Author notes

Some interesting annotations for PSYCHO KILLERS IN LOVE. Basically, just random bits of trivia for those who enjoyed the book.

1. Psycho Killers in Love is a prequel to the United States of Monsters series, taking place in the year 2000 before the Reveal of the supernatural in 2006. 2. Billy England is named after Billy from BLACK CHRISTMAS (the first slasher) and Robert Englund a.k.a Freddy Krueger. 3. Billy's Santa-themed murder spree is inspired by SILENT NIGHT, DEADLY NIGHT as well as the ser...