Console Wars: The Secret History of Gaming

Console Wars: The Secret History of Gaming

I just finished reading Console Wars: Sega, Nintendo, and the Battle that Defined a Generation. This intriguing book's subtitle is somewhat misleading for two contradictory reasons. First, it doesn't only deal with Sega and Nintendo, but touches on almost every industry player worth mentioning from the 1983 video game crash…
July 4, 20165 Comments
The Conjuring 2

The Conjuring 2

With The Conjuring 2 dominating the weekend box office, now seems like a good time to expand on my short review from the most recent episode of Geek Gab. The sequel to 2013's The Conjuring, also helmed by director James Wan, this installment features the dramatization of another case from the…
June 14, 2016
Which Iron Man Film Is the Best in the Series?

Which Iron Man Film Is the Best in the Series?

It's the series that turned a comic book character nobody had cared about since the Cold War into the hottest IP on the planet and redeemed its star's career in the process. Initially considered a huge gamble, the Iron Man franchise kicked off the Marvel Cinematic Universe--a coup that the competition…
June 6, 20168 Comments
John C. Wright’s Iron Chamber of Memory

John C. Wright’s Iron Chamber of Memory

The mystery of an island where the past never ended. Riddles in an ancient house whose doors remain locked; not to keep thieves out, but to keep ghosts in. A quest for the Holy Grail, and a love triangle worthy of Arthurian legend. Murder plots, skin changers, cases of mistaken…
May 25, 2016
Gorilla Mindset by Mike Cernovich

Gorilla Mindset by Mike Cernovich

Western civilization is teeming with men who've grown up with weak or, increasingly, absent fathers. Meanwhile, consumerism breeds ever greater atomization, destroying the very concept of friendship. A serious danger of this deepening isolation is that once-common knowledge and skills are no longer being handed down from one generation to…
May 15, 20162 Comments
JD Cowan Reviews Nethereal

JD Cowan Reviews Nethereal

From ...And Between the Wasteland and the Sky: Nethereal by Brian Niemeier is a different kind of book. I'm not the most well-read in science fiction, but then, this isn't totally a science fiction book. It's not really fantasy, either. But then, it's also not horror. It's a mixture of…
April 25, 20162 Comments
Book Review: The Cunning Blood by Jeff Duntemann

Book Review: The Cunning Blood by Jeff Duntemann

The dawn of 2016 finds my to-be-read pile one book shorter. A hard sci-fi book review should augur well for the new year. The hard SF book in question is The Cunning Blood, authored by a publishing industry veteran who's worn pretty much every hat in the business: the esteemed…
January 2, 20162 Comments

Geek Gab Episode 36: The Force Awakens

Join a schlock hack SF writer and the infallible Daddy Warpig for the only review of Star Wars: The Force Awakens you'll ever need!
December 27, 2015
Creed (2015)

Creed (2015)

I'm glad that Daddy Warpig and Red Letter Media made me aware of this hidden gem. Otherwise I would have missed it amid the hype surrounding other Christmas season movie releases. For the sake of those who haven't seen the movie yet, I'll keep this review as spoiler-free as possible.…
December 26, 2015
Operation: Silent Night

Operation: Silent Night

The wait is over! Star Wars: The Force Awakens has finally been released to enraptured audiences. Unfortunately, I was not among them. The only showing that wasn't sold out was in 3D, which to me doesn't make movies look three-dimensional so much as it turns them blurry and induces migraines. Instead…
December 19, 2015