IN FOR A PENNY, IN FOR A BOND

A guide to this blog's James Bond marathon can be found right here . YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE Directed by Lewis Gilbert Written by Roald Dah...

Successful Fiction Begins With a Great Concept

J ames Scott Bell @jamesscottbell Joe’s excellent post on the magic words “What if?” got me thinking about the crucial importance of concep...

New Google Maps Symbols in Action

Darren Wiens has created a quick demo of the  new Symbols feature in the Google Maps API. Hinton Nordic Centre Ski Trails uses an arrow s...

Hey, Ms. blog, WTF?

Thursday night, the gang did theme posts. They each found a piece of critical film writing and then they offered their thoughts: Thomas F...

...COMES GREAT RESPONSIBILITY

The superhero sequel is a peculiar beast. It is the nature of the sequel to be a chancy proposition, artistically at least: most stories rea...