If you want to watch a movie that will make you just kind of tear up for no reason over and over, I recommend the 2014 documentary I Am Big ...

Fist things first:  as regular readers may know, one of my two undergraduate diplomas from Ye Olde University of Texas is in Communications,...

It's been forever since I watched The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) , and I wish that weren't so.  It's easy to bag on an...

We were big fans of the Alias and The Pulse comics.  Looking forward to this one.

Long day here at The Fortress of Nerditude.  I'll spare you the details. But, hey...  I hear the Williams sisters had a hell of a m...

I had decided that for my Labor Day, I was going to watch a Planet of the Apes movie, probably the first one from 1968.  Instead, I wound up...

I've been exceptionally lucky to be able to say that my Local Comic Book Shop is the astounding Austin Books and Comics .  I grew up in ...

I have tried to watch Now, Voyager (1942) for years, and something always happens.  Well, the opposite of "something always happens&qu...

UT Football has been having a rough patch the past few years.  It was bad enough two seasons ago that we saw the dismissal of Coach Mack...

I haven't read all that much Raymond Chandler.  I read The Big Sleep more than a decade ago (specifically when I was trapped in a h...