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Favorite Movies About Dragons

October 28, 2025 /
  • Dragonslayer (Matthew Robbins, 1981)
  • Dragonheart (Rob Cohen, 1996)
  • Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki, 2001)
  • Reign of Fire (Rob Bowman, 2002)
  • How to Train your Dragon (Sanders & DeBlois, 2010)
  • Age of the Dragons (Ryan Little, 2011)

In chronological order.

The first Airport

October 21, 2025 /
The seventies were the decade of disaster movies, and no series represents that better than the Airport franchise. Airport (1970), directed by George Seaton and produced by Ross Hunter, is one of the defining films of the disaster genre. In fact, it created it. Based on Arthur Hailey’s 1968 best-selling novel, the movie portrays the crisis-filled operations of a Chicago airport during a blizzard, culminating in a bomb threat aboard a Boeing 707. With its ensemble cast (Burt Lancaster, Dean Martin, Jean Seberg, Jacqueline Bisset, George Kennedy, Helen Hayes, Van Heflin), glossy production, and high-stakes melodrama, Airport was a massive

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Playing Old CRPGs Again: Wasteland 3

October 7, 2025 /
Well, Wasteland 3 is not exactly an old CRPG (it was launched in 2020), and I’m not actually replaying it (because I never had the opportunity to play it before), but after Wasteland 2 it was an obvious choice for this series anyway. The Wasteland franchise has always carried the weight of history. The original Wasteland (1988) laid the groundwork for post-apocalyptic RPGs and directly inspired the Fallout series. Decades later, Wasteland 2 (2014) revived the series with a modernized isometric format, featuring heavy text and a branching narrative. Wasteland 3 (2020), developed by inXile Entertainment, continues that revival but

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Favorite 1900-1950 Visual Art

September 30, 2025 /
  • Montagne Sainte-Victoire, Paul Cézanne, 1904
  • The Kiss, Gustav Klimt, 1908
  • The Dance, Henri Matisse, 1910
  • Black Square and Red Square, Kazimir Malevich, 1915
  • Woman with Blue Eyes, Amedeo Modigliani, 1918
  • The Elephant Celebes, Max Ernst, 1921
  • Composition with Red Blue and Yellow, Piet Mondrian, 1929
  • House by the Railroad, Edward Hopper, 1925
  • The Great Machine, Giorgio de Chirico, 1925
  • Autoportrait (Tamara in a Green Bugatti), Tamara de Lempicka, 1929
  • Guernica, Pablo Picasso, 1937
  • Time Transfixed, René Magritte, 1938
  • The Beautiful Bird Revealing the Unknown to a Pair of Lovers, Joan Miró, 1941
  • Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee Around a Pomegranate a Second Before Awakening, Salvador Dalí, 1944
  • Christina’s World, Andrew Wyeth, 1948

In chronological order.

The Innocents: essence of the fantastic

September 23, 2025 /
Henry James’s novella The Turn of the Screw is famous for being slippery. Are the ghosts real, or is the governess losing her mind? The 1961 film The Innocents keeps that same spirit of uncertainty, but instead of James’s careful prose, it uses images, sound, and atmosphere to create doubt. The story is essentially the same, but the movie sharpens the tension, leaning into the creepy sexuality and suppressed desire that James only hinted at. Where the book makes you question every line, the film makes you question every shot. The script started with a stage adaptation, but Truman Capote

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Favorite 1850-1900 Visual Art

September 16, 2025 /
  • Sudden Shower Over Shin-Ohashi Bridge, Utagawa Hiroshige, 1857
  • The Heart of the Andes, Frederic Edwin Church, 1859
  • Lady Lilith, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1873
  • Woman with a Parasol, Claude Monet, 1875
  • Young Man at His Window, Gustave Caillebotte, 1876
  • Rising Moon over Mount Nanping, Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, 1885
  • A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, Georges Seurat, 1886
  • The Lady of Shalott, John William Waterhouse, 1888
  • Starry Night, Vincent van Gogh, 1889
  • The Scream, Edvard Munch, 1893

In chronological order.

Three Dredds

September 9, 2025 /
I’ve recently had the chance to see two movies I had never seen, Judge Dredd (Danny Cannon, 1995) and Dredd (Pete Travis, 2012). They are both adaptations of the comic strip Judge Dredd, but they differ significantly from each other. Judge Dredd first appeared in 1977 in 2000 AD, a British weekly anthology comic, created by writer John Wagner and artist Carlos Ezquerra. The strip was a reaction against both American superhero excess and the bleak prospects of late-20th-century urban life. The setting, Mega-City One, was a sprawling dystopian metropolis stretching along the American eastern seaboard, plagued by crime, unemployment,

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Favorite 1800-1850 Visual Art

September 2, 2025 /
  • The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed in Sun, William Blake, 1803
  • La Grande Baigneuse, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, 1808
  • Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog, Caspar David Friedrich, 1818
  • El Perro, Francisco Goya, 1823
  • The Great Wave off Kanagawa, Katsushika Hokusai, 1831
  • The Course of the Empire: The Consummation, Thomas Cole, 1836
  • Takiyasha the Witch and the Skeleton Spectre, Utagawa Kuniyoshi, 1844
  • Rain, Steam, and Speed – The Great Western Railway, J.M.W. Turner, 1844

In chronological order.

Playing Old CRPGs Again: Wasteland 2

August 26, 2025 /
Released in 2014 by inXile Entertainment, Wasteland 2 was a long-awaited revival of a cult classic. Funded through Kickstarter and helmed by Brian Fargo (the creator of the original Wasteland in 1988), it sought to deliver a true successor after decades of dormancy. While it succeeds in capturing the spirit of its predecessor and the roots of the franchise, it also shows both its indie origins and its design ambitions. Within the Wasteland franchise, Wasteland 2 functions as both a sequel and a reinvention. Its narrative directly follows the original’s events: the Desert Rangers return, once again tasked with enforcing

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