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Category Archives: Personal
Jan
01
2016
BEST FILM OF 2015: EX MACHINA
Below is a review I did a few months ago of Ex Machina, which turned out to be my choice for best film of 2015. Let me say this right up front: Alex Garland’s dazzling film Ex Machina is, in its own way, as mind-blowing as Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 iconic 2001: A Space Odyssey. I insert the qualification “in […]
Feb
21
2015
LET’S REVISIT “FULLY LOADED”, SHALL WE?
Looking out the window at a gray, windy day here in Key West, I was reminded of an earlier short story of mine, a little opus titled Fully Loaded. It’s a slice of Southern noir, and since I just got done reading and reviewing Quarry’s Choice, a very noirish novel by Max Allan Collins which, like my short story, is […]