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You’ve probably heard that V, the ABC alien-invasion series, has been picked up for a second season. The show is based, of course, on the 1983 NBC miniseries, its sequel, and a short-lived weekly series. If you haven’t seen any of these (they’re all on DVD), you can check out the various spin-off novels. Start [...]

I know it came out four years ago, but I just recently watched The Hoax, Lasse Hallstrom’s film version of Clifford Irving’s 1981 account of his infamous faking of Howard Hughes’ autobiography. Well, the movie is wonderful. Richard Gere absolutely nails his performance as Irving, playing him as a creative and talented writer whose defective [...]

Let’s say you don’t know a thing about making a video. You don’t have a fancy camera. You don’t know any actors. You couldn’t light a shot if your life depended on it. Heck, you’re a writer–the whole visual medium thing should be left to the James Camerons of the world, anyway, amirite? I can’t [...]

It’s now by turns a grim and darkly ludicrous part of our daily routine: monitoring the oil catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico, or the Gulf of Oil, as various fundits and pundits have it. Amid all the desperate and, if it wasn’t so horrific, absurd attempts to stop the undersea gusher, I’ve been thinking about [...]

I just found out — and I’m very upset with you for not telling me sooner — that there’s going to be another Planet of the Apes movie. It’s called Caesar: Rise of the Apes (or just Rise of the Apes, depending on which report you read), and apparently it’s a prequel to the original [...]