Month: July 2016

I have a confession to make. I don’t watch GAME OF THRONES. I’ve never seen a single episode. You might think a Fantasy show featuring dragons, naked babes, and swordplay would be right up my alley, and normally you’d be right on the money. But GAME OF THRONES just doesn’t “grab” me. I did read…

So promises the headline of this linked-to article, anyway. It’s pure clickbait, but I’ll do you all a solid and scroll through it for you, making mention here of any werewolf-related beasties that make the cut, without elucidation as to WHY they made it. I’ll deal with the pop-ups and long-running scripts so you don’t…

I’m just gonna come right out and say it. I have NO sympathy for poachers at all. None. I can barely force myself to view them as human beings. I find what they do THAT abhorrent. I view them as I view the worst kinds of criminals. (I view trophy hunters as being little better,…

Some were, at least. We can say that with certainty. There is substantive evidence. As for the whole species, we’ll have to resort to conjecture. (It’s a good bet, though, I’d say.) Human bones—that is to say, Neanderthal bones—found in a cave in Belgium bear the unmistakable signs of their owners having been butchered and…

I don’t understand why Tarzan is being picked on so much. The new film, THE LEGEND OF TARZAN, is fantastic. Yet a lot of critics are hating on it (though a lot are digging it) and the majority of this number are doing so based not on the quality of the movie, or the dearth…

The common viewpoint is that you have Science, and then you have the Occult, and between the two there is a great gulf fixed. One can be either a man of Science or a man of spirituality, but not both. This is a great generalization and it has a kernel of truth to it, but…

Here’s a little something to tell you all you really need to know about me. No, not my full name, my political views or religious beliefs, my taste in music, or the age at which I first saw a pair of boobs. (Although I might give any or all of this away in some other…

One theory that is sometimes put forward as an explanation for werewolf accounts in previous centuries is that of remnant canine species surviving into the modern era and, upon encountering humans, being incorrectly identified as a mythological creature, i.e. a werewolf. It’s a more credible hypothesis than the suggestion that a human can physically transform…

Hey, I’m not gonna complain. Out of the HUNDREDS of Tarzan movies that have been made in the past century, you know how many of them have been faithful to the source material, the novels written by Edgar Rice Burroughs? NONE of them. Not until now, with THE LEGEND OF TARZAN. Those old black-and-white films…

Nothing is official yet, so there’s still room for hope, but Warner Brothers is reputedly in talks with Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson to portray Larry Talbot in their upcoming revamp of THE WOLFMAN. We can all share a collective groan over this one, my fellow fans. What is WB thinking? Oh, right. Movie studio. Thinking.…