Really hearing Metallica’s “the black album” 17 years later…

This is a CLASSIC album of course from 1991, the one that put Metallica into mainstream and probably incurred the dread of Christian parents and conservative people everywhere.
I mean just look at the cover….
I remember having a cassette of this album and truth be told, it was a little ‘heavy’ for me. I was into [...]

Fiction is dead, long live Google

FICTION is DEAD.
Dictation, storytelling, propaganda – they are all a dying artforms.
Filmmaking, musicians and writers looking to make a living are a dying breed and their respective industries are already at their sunset era.
Sure there will be a fight to survive but things won’t get better, let’s admit at least that.
Only filmmaking has transformed itself [...]

Neil Gaiman explains DC’s peculiar superhero comics brand

Neil Gaiman, who took comics storytelling to new heights with suggested for mature readers” DC imprint with his seminal work – “The SANDMAN”  tells in a 1991 press interview what even HE couldn’t write in a DC comic (back then?)

“the only word that got censored was ‘masturbate,’” Gaiman says. “It was explained to me that [...]

Why writer Alan Moore is left out of Snyder’s WATCHMEN movie

“Originally I was content to just simply accept the money, that was offered when people had adapted my comic books into films. Eventually I decided to refuse to accept any of the money for the films, and to ask if my name could be taken off of them, so that I no longer had to [...]

The critics spoil everything – “finding neverland”

They have SPOILED it.
They Critics.
They have made it SERIOUS and made a big deal out of it.
What is it called?
A play.

- Dustin Hoffman’s character who plays a producer tells J.M. Barrie (played by Johnny Depp) trying to follow up his FLOP with a wildly imaginative play called “Peter Pan.” in the [...]