Miniver Cheevy

Rescuing a classic from linkrot: Republic Dogs By Nathaniel Daw Copyright 1994 and all that. [ Thrasymachus is ti...

I am generally skeptical of breathless “AI” boosterism. LLMs have given us some astonishing surprises in the last few years, and we can e...

I have lately been seized by a mania to track down interesting re-edits of films, either done by the original creators or by fans. ...

A while back I stumbled across the almost-forgotten 1971 “horror” film Simon, King of the Witches . The film is much better than the titl...

Talking to a friend, I was reminded of how Linda Hamilton deserved a better career. In the original The Terminator , her line reading of ...

In my wasted youth, I read most of Robert A. Heinlein’s published writing. I cannot recommend doing that. But that inheritance from my yo...