Nearly Critically Acclaimed Author
Nicholas Cage films are like gas station burritos; most will leave you with food poisoning, but sometimes, one comes along that makes the whole hunt worth it. Fortunately, or unfortunately, Dream Scenario doesn’t fall into the so bad it’s good or Oscar-worthy poles of Cage’s career.
For the last two years, I've been working on a follow-up to my novella, The First Ambassador to Crustacea. How does one follow up an epic adventure with psychic crabs, renegade lobsters, and missile-spewing mech suits? Obviously, by sending our favorite heroes, Zip, a sassy captain with a smuggling problem, and Tom, a six-foot-tall talking shrimp, to a cursed theme park planet.
Who doesn’t like watching a Christmas movie in early March while Seattle is hovering on the edge of the snow zone? The Holdovers is a by-the-numbers feel-good movie about a snarky student and a curmudgeonly professor stuck together over the holidays.
I went into Dune: Part 2 riding high on having just rewatched the first film, read the book, and seen the rave reviews. I was ready to become a changed man and pledge myself to the spice and church of director Dennis Villeneuve. Unfortunately, I left with a shrug.
Mean Girls shines when it distances itself from its source material, but unfortunately, it doesn’t do it enough. Granted, this is a film based on a Broadway musical based on a film, so we’re three layers into remake inception at this point. Maybe I was expecting too much, but at the end of the day, this movie left me longing for the original cast and I almost turned it off several times to watch the 2004 classic.
I am making my way through the wizarding series, and I’ve restarted my journey with Sourcery. Rincewind, the presumed protagonist, is a cowardly wizard who can’t do much magic, and I liked him significantly more in this outing compared to Color of Magic.
MI:2 seems to take itself far less seriously than MI:1, but I honestly can’t tell if that’s on purpose or just the film showing its age.
Sometimes, the only way to get through the cycle is to procrastinate and make a comic about the cycle with your wife.
Overall, my opinion of Dune is relatively steady; it’s a wonderful film with an incredible score and beautiful imagery. The action is phenomenal, but the film is carried by the unsettling tension between its characters.
'm thrilled to share that my latest audiobook, "The First Ambassador to Crustacea," a crab-infused science fiction novella, is now available for your listening pleasure!