Film & Video

Hard To Deicide
The Frankenstein & Cain Motifs in Dystopian Cinema: better eat your young before they eat you.

Apopcornalypse
The end of the world can be much more fun than you might think. The last of Ian's ramblings about dystopia in media.

The Good, The Bad, & The Terry
Terry Explains Why After Watching So Many Great Films, He Still Has Such Bad Taste

A Digitally Bridged Divide
New Possibilities With Digital Video

I am not a critic
(I am a human being) - Terry Pleads For Understanding In a Cold, Heartless World

Hybrid
A Unique Production Experiment

Why Terry Loves His Sony
Some quick tech notes from Terry, and a review of "Final Cut Pro3 and the Art of Filmmaking"

12 Monkeys
Are actually more fun than a whole barrel full

1984 (Nineteen Eighty-Four)
Hey 2005! 1984 called & said it wants its plot back! Part of our series on negative utopias in film and books

Alien Blood
Terry Spends Some Time in the Advanced Troma Unit

Bangkok Dangerous
Helen Killer Puns, Anyone?

Barbarella
****

The Bermuda Depths
****

Blood: The Last Vampire
An Anime-ted Review

Blue Crush
All The Thirteen-Year-Olds Agree: Classic Cinema!

Butterfly Effect
****

Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle
Terry gives it some gas

City Of God
****

Contempt
****

The Cooler
****

Crazy/Beautiful
This Review is Definitely One or the Other

Dagon
Terry Gets His Dag On

Dark City
...Darker Box Office

Donnie Darko
We liked this movie, but we may have only hallucinated it...

Erotic Nights Of The Living Dead
****

Event Horizon
****

The Faculty
****

Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
****

Gargoyles
****

Girl Next Door
****

Golden Voyage of Sinbad
Shhh! Don't Tell Terry It's Just Clay...

House Of Sand And Fog
****

I.K.U.
****

The Ipcress File
James Who?

The Iron Giant
Even The Two-Year-Olds Approve

Jackie Brown & Pulp Fiction Special Edition DVD's
Terry Kneels Before His DVDeity

Lifeforce
****

Logan's Run
****

Lord of the Rings
And one ring shall rule them all. But three DVD releases from New Line will rule our pocket books...

Martin Scorsese Collection
****

Matrix Reloaded
Terry Unloads on the Reloaded Critics

Outfoxed
****

Pitch Black
****

Planet of the Apes
Ian wants to shock your monkey.

Planet of the Vampires
****

Reservoir Dogs 10th Anniversary DVD
Somebody Get Terry a Bib....

President Evil
er, I mean Resident Evil

Roman Coppola's CQ
No, It's Not a Magazine or a Fragrance

Salton Sea
Val Kilmer: More Than Just A Pretty Face

Somewhere in Time
Somebody Pass Terry A Hanky

Star Trek 2:Wrath of Khan

Star Wars: The Phantom Menace
Terry JarJars Commonplace Perceptions

Straw Dogs!
Terry! Exclaims!

Supernova
Terry Smokes Crack, Reviews Movie

Taking Lives
****

Van Wilder
Good, Unclean Fun

Politics &Culture

Negative Utopias (Pt. I)
It's Never Too Late for the End of the World as we Know It

Terry Gets On The Soapbox Ten Hot Topics for August

2002, A Space Anomaly
Terry reflects on a year of adulterous, lying politicians, heavy metal, and creamy peanut butter

"Democratic Leadership" Is An Oxymoron
Part Two of "Can the Left Get it Right?"

Alright, Where'd You Hide That Freedom of Information, Anyway?
Ian interviews Joseph Haney, creator of CitizenSource.com

Can The Left Get It Right?
How Democrats Can Avoid Being "The Other Cola"

War Sucks
And Then Your Kids Pay For It

War Still Sucks
You Don't Have To Be A Liberal To Hate It

Empire of the Son
The Madness of Kings named George and the Pax Americana

Why We Support Wes Clark
Terry & Ian Get More Partisan than Fox News

2004 Primary Polls
Echopraxia Elects Alfred E. Newman

2004 Presidential Polls
And Kerry Wins! Or, um, hold on a sec...

Fight for your Right to Copyfight
RunDMCA, Run: Part 1 in a series on the "copyfight" movements

Read The O'Reilly Emails
They're that much better because he never replies...

Geraldo Kills O'Reilly With Friendly Fire
Why we're turning off our TV and seeing if we can still read

Who Owns Your Media?
That's a question that unfortunately seems to concern the people who buy CD's, DVD's and books a lot less than the people who produce and distribute them

Music & Audio

MP3 Dot Bomb
Sifting Through the Wreckage of an Internet Innovator

Downloading Up
Uploading our Frustration with Downloading

There Once Were Dinosaurs
Thoughts on Major Labels

Is The Music Industry Toast?
It Tastes Great With JamBands... An Interview with Ben Colmery of RhythmAndGroove.net

Web Resources for Musicians

Rust Never Sleeps
But It Didn't Seem Especially Alert In Seattle

Creedence Clearwater Revival
You can take the Ian out of the
trailer park, but you can't take the...

Peter Gabriel "Up"
Ian Gray Confesses to Fandom and Gives Peter Gabriel's Ironically-Titled New CD a Spin

Run Lola Run
Ian Gray's Homonculus is Happy

Publishing & Books

Now Available In Paperhack
Ian snuggles up with his 19" Dell to review some eBook software

Assessing The Threat
Ian Looks Back at the Golden Years of Film Threat Magazine

Is there an Echo in Here?
Ian reviews the book reviews, reviews the book reviews

Kula by Vlastimil Kula
Published by Taschen Books

Shooting Sex
by Bob Carlos Clarke - Terry mentally undresses strangers on his coffee table

Sorayama 1964-1999
The Complete Works of Hajime Sorayama (Someday, I have to sit at Terry's coffee table- ed.)

Revenge
by Ellen Von Unwerth - Finally, a book about women who end up captive and enslaved, that "isn't graphic or offensive in any way".

Panties
by Dave Naz - Terry gets his Panties in a bunch

Intron Depot 3: Ballistics
by Masamune Shirow - Terry goes ballistic over more Anime

Blood: The Last Vampire 2002
Graphically violent Anime: it's not just for kids anymore...

New York Hotel Story
What is it with Terry & the Hotel Books?

The First Time I Got Paid For It...
Sheesh. I'm Not Even Getting It, Let Alone Getting PAID For It...Ed.

Cheap Hotels (A Taschen Book)
Terry reads a book about hotel rooms he can't afford

The Birth of the Beat Generation
Terry hits the road, Jack Kerouac, and don't he come back no More

Motel Fetish by Chas Ray Krider (A Taschen Book)
Terry continues to explore his Motel Fetish

Some Quick Re-Reads
Ian Gray Gets Echopractic With His Bookshelf