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Star Wars Celebration VII Post Mortem

I’ve been away for a while. Away from everything, including writing. I was in Southern California, back in my old stomping grounds, attending the Star Wars Celebration, an event for which I’d been waiting for two long years. I bought my 4-day pass the day ticketswent on sale, and it seemed like the day would never come. But finally it did. Butwas it worth the wait? Read on and see.

I love Star Wars. Seeing Episode IV in 1977 is one of my earliest memories. And it was a life changing experie...

Netflix’s Daredevil: The Verdict Is In

I’m just going to come right out and say this. Netflix’s original series, Daredevil, is one of the best things Marvel has ever done. And this is coming from someone who’s never been a huge Daredevil fan, especially after the 2003 Ben Affleck fiasco. But this new series is definitely something special, and here are five reasons why I think it just might be a game changer.

5. Great storytelling.

This is the cornerstone of every great movie or TV series. And I don’t know who is in charge of sto...

The Lurkers And Other Strange Tales FREE on Amazon

For a limited time, my short story collection, The Lurkers & Other Strange Tales, will be free on Amazon. You really can’t beat that price. Lurkers is a genre-spanning anthology featuring Lovecraftian horror and science fiction. There’s even a story that ties in with The Heart Thief, so if you’ve read that book, you definitely won’t want to missthe short. Check out the product description below:

Penny and her husband, Richard, pull up stakes and move to a small island off the coast of Maine...

This Is A Very Dark Ride

I’m going to attempt this: writing about how I really feel. You’ve been warned. If you don’t want honesty (at least according to how my defective brain considers it), please read no further.

It’s been a while since I updated. The past few weeks have been extremely discouraging and difficult. I’m so close to finishing the first draft of book two, but I can’t seem to cross the finish line. Probably because I haven’t written anything in days. It’s not writer’s block in the typical sense. It’s a...

More Character Posters For Avengers: Age of Ultron

As expected, Marvel has released more character posters in its Avengers: Age of Ultron marketing campaign. And like the previous two posters featuring Iron Man and The Hulk, these new additions fail to thrill.

The posters released today feature Thor, Black Widow, and Nick Fury. And as you can see below, there’s nothing particularly special about any of them.

My big problem with these character posters is that they’re not really showing us anything new. They’re just the same heroes we’ve seen se...

Leonard Nimoy: The Final Frontier

My day just got a billion times sadder. Our galaxy just got a billion times darker. , whom we all knewand loved from film and television, especially for his portrayal of Mr. Spock on many differentiterations of Star Trek, has died.

According to the New York Times, Nimoy died in his home this morning in Los Angeles at the age of 83. His wife, Susan Bay Nimoy, confirmed the cause of death as end-stage chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Nimoy revealed last year he had COPD...

Harrison Ford To Reprise Blade Runner Role

The 1982 sci-fi thriller Blade Runner, starring , is one of my all-time favorite science fiction movies. I love everything about it—the story, the setting, the cinematography, the characters, everything. In fact, I recently got around to reading the original source material for the movie, Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, and it was amazing. So, I was cautiously excited when I heard that a sequel was in the works.

But for me to really be on board with this, two...

Hulk Smash! New Age Of Ultron Character Poster Revealed

Movie studios spend millions on marketing their films, especially their tentpoles. And this summer’s Avengers: Age of Ultron is as big a tentpole as they come.

First off, I have to say I like what a lot of these studios are doing in relation to marketing. Some of the viral campaigns that have been launched in recent years are pretty amazing (my favorite has been what Lionsgate hasdone with the Hunger Games movies). A staple of marketing campaigns these days is the character poster, and today M...

Glover/Hutcherson Sound Off On Spider-Man Casting Rumors

With the revelation that Spider-Man would finally be joining the Marvel Cinematic Universe and that Andrew Garfield was out, a lot of speculation has been flying about who will be cast as the new web-slinger. Two of those supposed possibilities, Donald Glover and Josh Hutcherson, have both made recent remarks regarding the speculation.

Both names were bandied about the last time the coveted role was up for grabs. And there isa strong contingent of people who think it’s time the iconic superher...

New Pics From Marvel’s Daredevil Series Are Here

I cannot say enough how much I love what Marvel Studios and Disney are doing with their MCU (Marvel Cinematic Universe) properties. I feel like they’re hitting it out of the park with almost everything they do. Have I been ecstatic with everyfilm? No (Iron Man 3 didn’t blow me away). But by and large, they really seem to know what they’re doing over there. And whenit was confirmed that Spider-Man would be joining the MCU, I was overjoyed. Over the freaking moon.

And they’re showing no signs of...