Blogworthy is a regular column dedicated to blog posts that I’ve read and enjoyed. It’s a direct outcome of my RPG Blogs Reading List on Feedly. 5 Reasons Someone Might Build a Dungeon Filled With Clues, Tests, and Riddles: DM David runs[…]
Read more
I’m a huge monster movie guy (as our occasional Monster Weeks demonstrate). It’s perhaps debatable whether Jurassic Park and its kin are truly creature features, but I love them regardless. Fallen Kingdom, the follow up to Jurassic World, looks suitably bonkers. Dinosaurs? Check. Volcanic eruptions?[…]
Read more
Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 2 is an unapologetic comic book movie that embraces the bright colors, superhero logic, and heart-on-your-sleeve emotions of the best of Marvel’s vintage titles from the 1970s and 80s The first movie felt more like[…]
Read more
I’ve got a soft spot for lost worlds in general, and Skull Island in particular. I love the idea of worlds that time forgot, wrapped up in mystery, mysticism and maybe a touch of the occult. In many ways, King[…]
Read more
Resident Evil: The Final Chapter is a bad movie. It is a terrible, ridiculous, over-the-top, spectacularly bad movie … and that’s why I loved it. Look, let’s be clear — there are no good Resident Evil movies. They’re all bad[…]
Read more
Live video streams and vidcasts are the big thing in role-playing games right now. Combined with the throwback Netflix series Stranger Things and the 80s-infused gamer novel Ready Player One the shows have helped produce a resurgence of Dungeons &[…]
Read more
Jaws, one of my favorite creature features, returned to theaters for a one-night-only screening on June 21st to honor its 40th anniversary. I was there, and as I watched one of my favorite movies in the company of a few[…]
Read more
It’s the night before the night before Christmas … and I have a cold. It seems to be a fast moving cold — it hit me yesterday afternoon, and made last night miserable, but today I’m half human and I[…]
Read more
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies is either too short, or too long … I haven’t decided which yet. Regardless it’s a movie filled with spectacular moments, tremendous visuals, and a sense that there’s a story that was[…]
Read more
We are trapped on Earth. It’s something I felt keenly as a kid, which is why the destruction of Challenger, and then Columbia, hit me so hard. Hell, I still tear up just thinking about January 28, 1986, but neither tragedy changed my mind about the importance of space exploration and colonization.
Read more