So it’s about how much of the galaxy is actually well-charted and how much of it is dangerous territory because it isn’t well-charted. Okay.

That makes sense to me.

It’s a remote outpost somewhere on the edge of wild space that was once very popular. However, after the development of hyperdrive, it became much less busy. That anonymity made it a destination for people who didn’t want to be found.

This is something that’s always bothered me about the Star Wars universe. In a…

but I’m going to give this new Alice a chance (at least for the reason of the season

The logical choice would be Daken, the half-Asian son of Wolverine, but Marvel probably doesn’t have the rights to him since he’s Wolverine’s kid. It really sucks that the X-Men and the rest of Marvel are currently cinematically divided.

Wait, murdering Meryn Trant who, if you’ll recall, beat the crap out of her (not to mention a couple of other innocent girls) before she killed him hardly makes her a serial killer, does it? Trant deserved everything he got. And so did Walder Frey. In the horrific brutality of this world, Arya’s violence to me seems…

To paraphrase the series motto, when you play the game, you win or you die. Of all the remaining Starks, Sansa is the one I have the lowest hope for making it to the end of the series. Unlike the other Starks (and Jon), who seem entirely uninterested in “the game” which I think bodes well for their future.

When can I get my purr-mit?

I’ll admit nothing! ;) Okay, it had it’s moments. To be fair, I was in high school when it came out and was already a jaded horror fan by that time. (Clive Barker was my jam at that point.) I will agree with you on one point though: I too hope it isn’t just a gorefest. That would be such a cop-out for a movie like…

It is, but I have a pretty good record of predicting successful films if I do say so myself. Of course, more information is needed before I’ll fully commit to that, but it is the impression I get from this teaser. 

I reread the novel this last winter to review for my blog. I recommend reading that. I promise it’s a short review.

This is already an immense improvement on the TV miniseries. Damn. This movie is gonna be the next The Shining, I think--artful and scary and intense.

But King is hardly the only writer to ever do that, and many of those other writers’ works have been successfully translated. In fact, one of King’s most inner dialogue-laden novels, The Shining, has arguably the best film interpretation of any of King’s books (despite some unnecessary changes to the plot). It think…

***contains ‘Dark Tower’ spoilers***

Really? I mean, I did feel Roland’s confrontation with the Red King was pretty anticlimactic, but I loved the concept of his eternal rebirth. Roland is sort of SK’s version of the Eternal Champion. You could tell that same story an infinite number of ways, which is the only way the…

Yeah, while It is high on the list, I have to agree that The Dark Tower (as a whole) is his best work, followed by The Stand. For me, It ties with The Shining for third place. That’s still pretty damn good though, considering how many books he’s written.

Well, let’s be honest: we’ve all become pretty jaded to the evil-looking scary clown. It was something fairly new back in the early 90s, but now we’ve seen thousands of them on the internet. The scariness of this film is going to depend on a lot more than whether the clown creeps you out at a glance, and that’s…

For a massive book that was jammed into a little over three hour-long TV movie, there sure were a lot of slow parts in it, weren’t there? With all the good stuff available to them from the book, you’d think the writers could’ve made it a little more fast-paced, but somehow they managed to make a movie that both cut…

This guy has pulled so many dick moves, he should have one named after him. How about the Vox Day Gambit?

Methinks thou doth protest too much. Look, this was a damned if you do, damned if you don’t kind of situation. If they’d made a bigger deal out of it right off the bat, it would’ve been much too easy for it to fall into that gratuitous, PC-for-the-sake-of-being-PC slot of storytelling, especially in this period of…

Huh. I saw it and thought: a more benevolent Tywin Lannister.