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Resident Evil: Afterlife

review up here. and, that big, hammer-axe zombie: coolest ever. want to know its whole story. want a movie about it, really.

ChiZine interview

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Every Good Thing That Could Ever Happen in a Movie, it Just Happened in Machete. And then Some.

I remember, I remember I remember The night Grindhouse opened, I somehow lucked into sitting there at the Alamo Drafthouse, where the cups were special that night, matched the movie somehow, and the trailers, man: Hobo With a Shotgun, Thanksgiving, and Machete. Danny Trejo not just in a bad-ass role, but inhabiting that character. Explosions [...:]

Shotgun Exorcism

In a movie, no matter the genre, you will always become that which you were just pretending to be. So, this charlatan exorcist in The Last Exorcism, exposing exorcisms as fraudulent for a documentary crew, what do you think? In a horror movie, will he finally have to become a real exorcist, or might he [...:]

Two More Novels

Every once in a while, something especially cool happens. Like this — two-book deal with Dzanc, for Flushboy (2013) and Not for Nothing (2014). Which, a quick sort-of breakdown: -Flushboy's what I wrote when my wife said I never write any love stories. It's this kid, pretty much indentured into working the drive-through window at [...:]

Living Twice at Once

Most directors can do one thing just really, really well. David Lynch, say, he can follow a telephone cord up and up such that you get all caught up in the languorous spiral, and that becomes not just the whole room, but the whole story. Wes Craven, he can rig a chase through a tight [...:]

The Fifth Element is Story

M. Night Shyamalan had his work cut out with The Last Airbender. Not only did he have to run with a different title than the original Nickelodeon series—thanks, James Cameron—but he also had to somehow condense sixty-one episodes (1342 minutes) into something feature length. Or, the trailers didn't tell us otherwise, anyway, but let me [...:]

Three Movies, One (-ish) Book

Or, "What I did with my yesterday," yeah.
Book: PARKER: THE HUNTER. Pretty fun; very straightforward, and cool art. Though, the night before I was up until two or three in the morning, unable to look away from the second volume of SCALPED, "Casino Boogie." I've always thought that SANDMAN or Y THE LAST MAN were [...:]

All the Updating that's fit to Update

New/excellent/killer/wonderful cover and isbn for the story collection, now called The Ones That Got Away.
Was lucky enough to be in the fifty stories Brian Evenson selected for Wigleaf.
Clutch of new stories over at Shadowbox, here.
New story "Sunsets Unlimited" at Hobart.
Review of Splice at the San Antonio Current.
I think I've got an entry coming up here, [...:]