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“Inception” was fucking incredible, but not entirely what I was hoping for. I was hoping for more of a “Matrix”-style exploration of “What is reality?” – if dreams are as tactile as reality, then maybe reality is no different than a dream. The movie does that somewhat, but the [...]

I haven’t seen “Inception” yet.  It’s basically the only movie I want to see in the theatre this summer.  My novel’s also about dreams – blurring the line between dreams and reality – so it no doubt interests me.  Maybe, just maybe, the movie will spark more interest in my novel.  Plot: writer starts dreaming/writing [...]

I wrote a book, North of Sunset, about a movie star who’s driven insane by celebrity – starts believing he’s above the moral code of regular people.  I wrote another book, The American Book of the Dead, about a fundamentalist Christian president who starts believing he’s the Messiah.  These two plots are related.  It would [...]

Netflix describes this movie as:
Radical left-wing bookstore owner Tom Flynn (Adam Nee) finds himself in the fight of his life when his suspicions surrounding the events of Sept. 11 land him on the radar of a group of nefarious conspirators. When he crosses paths with a mysterious woman who claims to be in possession of [...]

Kids movies often have strange and borderline-inappropriate imagery.  In “Madagascar 2,” the movie begins by going back in time.  In order to show that this is years earlier, we see a view of the Manhattan skyline, including the twin towers.  For some reason, the filmmakers thought it was a good idea to evoke the memory [...]

The world is insane.  One of the horrible things unleashed by random killers like John Patrick Bedell, Joe Stack, or Amy Bishop is that it defines insanity in terms of “killing people.”  Of course these people have all had a psychotic breakdown, but collectively the culture is having a psychotic break , which does not [...]