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I've subtitled this one "The Ameritrash Review of Books" because for various reasons I've been doing a lot of reading lately and spending very little time watching films or playing video games. Well, I have been playing Fable a lot but I already reviewed that and besides, the weight of critical opinion suggests that I'm the only person in the universe who thinks Fable is worth multiple play-throughs. So books it is.

When I first walked out of thetheater after watching Where the Wild Things Are, I thought I didn’t like it. Hate might be too strong a word, but I was definitely not pleased. Yet I haven’t been able to stop thinking about it since…

I've exercised a considerable amount of caution in this review, and I don't think there are any spoilers that could diminish your enjoyment in the least. But if you're one of those, 'don't tell me anything!' spoiler-paranoid people, just skip this one and come back when you've seen it. No, you have not come to the wrong site. Your RSS feed thingy is working just fine. I have not been replaced by Siskel & Ebert (one of whom is dead now,which works because I'm reviewing a zombie movie). It's just that I went and saw Zombieland this...

For as long as I can remember - way, way back before I became interested in other facets of geek culture like Tolkien and sci-fi - I've been fascinated by the myth of vampires. I don't know where it came from, and I still struggle to articulate what it is that I find so compelling about them, although I'm going to try during the course of this artlce. And yet even today as my partner and I browse through what's recorded on the PVR nine times out of ten she'll roll her eyes and exclaim "not another vampire film!". She...

Since last Fall, there's been something of a gold rush on iTunes, with large and small software development shops seeking fortune by selling applications at price points between $0.99 and $9.99.  This gold rush is aided by the low cost of entry to the market.  The software tools required to develop applications for the platform are available free of charge from Apple, and access to iTunes costs a developer only $99. As a result, there are plenty of games available to users of iPhone and iPod Touch, but...