Even the most cursory of looks around my website will tell you that I’m a bit of a Tolkien fan. So obviously I should have no shortage of opinions on the recent Tolkien adaptations right? And yet, whenever I’m asked […]
As one of the first, and most famous, "pacifist westerns," it is tempting to discuss Destry Rides Again in terms of the fascinatingly contradictory tenants of that genre. However, because I've already discussed pacifist westerns, I figured …
In the early days of computing, before Graphical User Interfaces were commonplace, nerds still needed games to play on their primitive computers. Thus the text based interactive fiction game was born. While the Zork series …
Hello dear readers, it’s MAILBAG MONDAY again! On this special day I will search through my mountain of reader mail and answer the five most pressing questions! What’s that you say? Do I really get that …
Here are some two sentence reviews of the movies I watched in November. Stats Movies watched – 16 Movies that were new to me – 5 Bond Movies – 5 Monthly Masterpieces – Palm Beach Story November 29 The Spy …
Welcome back to everyone’s favorite www.isleyunruh.com Monday feature! Middle-earth being the place of enchantment and wonder that it is, each month I will use my love of fictional cartography to transport you to another time and place. …
I always have to stop myself when I say I like “all kinds of music”. Because, honestly, that just isn’t true, there is really only one kind of music I like. No, not [just] Black …
Sometimes "black metal" is a difficult genre to pin down. While 90% of black metal pretty much either sounds like Emperor or Immortal, there is quite a lot of diversity to be found in the …
Few directors dominated the early 1940s like Preston Sturges. While not the first writer-director, Sturges was the most famous early example of a screenwriter who also directed his own films, paving the way for Orson …
While the Bond films, with their jet packs and suitcase airplanes, seem like the would already be pretty accessible to children, I recently discovered that they also lend themselves quite well to the children's picture book format. …