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The Spoiler Show Notes – Episode Twenty-Seven: Hypocalypse Now!
Hey there! Very special episode for you this week, what with the Apocalypse on the way and all, Marcus and I decided to do a public service announcement concerning all the myriad ways we might snuff...
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The Spoiler Show Notes (Supplemental) – Let’s All Go to the Lobby with KEVIN...
Hey folks, Matt here with a supplemental Spoiler Show episode for you. This week, I had the privilege of sitting down on the couch at The Lobby and talking to Kevin Martin, owner and operator of that...
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2012 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: 4,329 films were submitted to the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. This blog had 54,000 views in 2012....
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Sitting in the Dark With Strangers 2012: Part One
Hey there folks, it is once again time for the fifth (!) installment of my annual movie review post! The first few were on facebook, and I actually had to hunt around for them in preparation for this...
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Sitting in the Dark With Strangers 2012: Part Two
Continuing on with the big list of movies I saw this year (Part One here). There’s a few here I might not be able to summon up a lot to say about, so please bear with me if that’s the case. 30. Ted I...
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Sitting in the Dark With Strangers 2012: Part Three – The Big Finale!
Long after anyone cares, in true This Nerding Life fashion, here’s my top ten movies of 2012. If you look around you can find tons of stuff written about most of these movies, so I won’t elaborate...
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The Evil of Banality: Spring Breakers and F. Scott Fitzgerald
It was serendipity, I guess, that brought these two topics together. I’d been very excited to watch the new Harmony Korine film Spring Breakers after seeing its critical reception and its exciting...
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Late to the Party: Daniel O’Thunder by Ian Weir
“Spectacle, dear boy. Never mind the mirror held to nature. If they want nature they’ll look at a tree. Bangs and whizzes — startling effects — characters who shriek and stab and get on with it. That’s...
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Notes on MAN OF STEEL (spoilers)
As it looks like I’m probably not going to be able to record a proper Spoiler Show episode about Man of Steel, the new Zack Snyder/Christopher Nolan Superman movie, I decided to get a few of my...
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Late to the Party: The Teleportation Accident, by Ned Beauman
This was a great book. A breakneck mix of Pynchonesque rollicking party scenes, hardboiled dialogue, a milieu that recalls Isherwood, Orwellian down-and-outs, with the spectre of Lovecraft lurking...
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Late to the Party: Eutopia, by David Nickle
In the mountainous Kootenai region of Idaho, there exists a town named Eliada. The dream of a rich industrialist named Garrison Harper, by the year 1911 Eliada is a booming Utopia fiercely devoted to...
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Late to the Party: Sacré Bleu, by Christopher Moore
It is turn of the century Paris, and the bohemian demimonde is all abuzz after news of the great artist Vincent van Gogh’s death in Arles reaches them. The apparent suicide is complicated somewhat by...
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Late to the Party: Boxer, Beetle, by Ned Beauman
When Kevin “Fishy” Broom, a collector of Nazi memorabilia, stumbles upon a secret communique from Adolf Hitler to an English aristocrat named Erskine, he uncovers a mystery that has lain dormant in...
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Review: Night Film, by Marisha Pessl
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. A disgraced journalist is brought into a case involving a young woman who has disappeared from her father’s million-dollar estate. He teams up with a plucky...
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Review: Bleeding Edge, by Thomas Pynchon
As some of my friends from university who I subjected to drunken attempts at getting them to read The Crying of Lot 49 might attest, trying to condense a Thomas Pynchon story into a short synopsis is a...
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Review: Dr. Brinkley’s Tower, by Robert Hough
Musical Accompaniment: “Will The Circle Be Unbroken”, from the Bioshock Infinite OST (Courtnee Draper — vocal, Troy Baker — guitar) Mexico: 1931. Across the Rio Grande from Texas lies Corazon de la...
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Review: S. by J.J. Abrams and Doug Dorst
WARNING: There may be some slight spoilers for some aspects of this book in the review. As the element of surprise and the feeling of discovery is one of the pleasures of reading this story, you might...
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Late to the Party: The Ladies of Grace Adieu, by Susanna Clarke
The Ladies of Grace Adieu is a short story collection released shortly after Susanna Clarke’s stellar first novel, Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell. The nine stories collected here mostly take place in...
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Late to the Party: Angelmaker, by Nick Harkaway
Musical Accompaniment: The Clash, “Tommy Gun”: “The world was getting old and cruel. The great game she had played, the wild, primary-colour roller coaster, had become something harsher. It wasn’t...
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Review: The Night Gwen Stacy Died, by Sarah Bruni
A superhero whose adventures are written in the classic Marvel Comics style lives in a world so fraught with tragedy that mere mortals could not bear it. Each month, friends and family are put in...
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