When I was young, I accidentally punched a hole in the side of our garage wall with a wayward snow shovel. Terrified at the implications once my mother returned from work, I did the only thing I could think of: I taped a piece of notebook paper across the sizable gouge and painted over the [...]

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Fan fiction is an awkward literary subset written not by the original creator of a given work, but rather by fans. Nearly always disavowed by the originating artist, fan fiction is both defined by and exists outside the canon of whatever universe is being depicted, especially due to the fact that the quality of work [...]

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Colin Firth, who should have won a Best Actor Oscar last year for A Single Man, will very likely claim the prize this year for The King’s Speech, a beautifully crafted, sturdily constructed, sublimely written story shimmering with robust humanity and impish wit.

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This review first appeared in The Colorado Springs Gazette. To read this review at its original source, click here.
Zack Snyder, best known for such hyper-violent fare as 300 and Watchmen, may be the last person you’d expect to helm an adaptation of a popular series of kid’s books (Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of [...]

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