The Norman Nerd

For years now - certainly since Dreamworks threw down the "anti-fairy tale" gauntlet with the first Shrek  and arguably since the...

For a few years in the late 80's and 90's, one of the hottest names in science fiction blockbusters was an eccentric Dutchman named...

This year was a pretty terrible. I mean that in general (lots of nasty stuff souring my favorite hobbies, like GamerGate and the death of s...

Eleven years ago to the day, a minor miracle happened. With the release of  The Return of the King , Peter Jackson not only finished an amb...

The best superhero stories are, in actuality, about internal conflicts. In spite of the razzle-dazzle of super powers, strange creatures, o...

It can be easy to forget, in this modern age of clashing CGI armies, zooming spaceships and high-flying superheroes, that at one point in h...

Many great movies are meticulous, laser-focused affairs, films that have a mission statement that they zero in on early and hew to from the...