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May 4, 2022

Immortality Is Overrated: The Lost Boys

I spent around seven years working as a freelance editor/proofreader for a fairly large publisher of romance novels.  I hit all the subgenres—Regency, contemporary, sweet, erotic, and of course, paranormal.  It was a fun job for some…

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May 4, 2022

Defending Your Life: A Plausible Purgatory

As a young teen, the movie Defending Your Life provided my curious mind with an incredibly imaginative idea as to what lay ahead in the afterlife, couched in the familiar form of satirical courtroom drama reminiscent of my favorite TV sitcom at the …

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April 30, 2022

After the Apocalypse: Mad Max: Fury Road

This is the way the world endsThis is the way the world endsThis is the way the world endsNot with a bang but a whimper. -T.S. Eliot, “The Hollow Men”   Mad Max: Fury Road (and all the other Mad Max films for that matter) belong …

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April 30, 2022

In Support of the Rewatch: Raising Arizona

The first time that I clapped eyes on Raising Arizona I was 11, and I was baffled.  My humor had not evolved beyond appreciation of more obvious comedy, and the idea of an action movie where the hero gets beat up and doesn’t deliver venge…

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