He is the most honored writer living today. He’s been a nitro truck driver, a tuna fisherman, short order cook and a door-to-door brush salesman, among other things. He’s changed the face of science/speculative fiction with his anthologies Dangerous Visions and Again Dangerous Visions. He’s written novels, short stories, comics, television criticism, television and movies. […]
Tag: Neil Gaiman
MOVIE REVIEW: Coraline – Still Your Best Bet at the Movies!
When it was announced that Henry Selick was developing Nail Gaiman’s wonderful novel Coraline for film, it was probably not something that registered with most moviegoers. If they recognized the name at all, it was most likely from Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas – even Burton claims that all he contributed was the basic […]
Beowulf: Dazzling 3D CGI, So-So Movie!
Roger Zemeckis has created an amazing world in Beowulf – the CG adaptation of the epic poem we all suffered through in high school English. Here, though, we get a loose adaptation that assigns human motivations to the major players – including the decidedly inhuman Grendel and his mother. Does it work? Just often enough […]