WB is working on a sequel to the movie I Am Legend, will Will Smith returning as Robert Neville (I can’t type that name without thinking of Neville’s pot-bellied neighbor Ben Cortman standing in the street, hungrily shouting out “Come out, Neville!” Don’t remember Cortman? Then go read Matheson’s 1954 classic novel so [...]

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I love this story (and kinda wish my own kiddo was a bit older to enjoy it). The Seattle Children’s Theatre is putting horror classic Night of the Living Dead on the stage for all the little zombies and ghoulish girls to enjoy. And just in time for Halloween. Night of the [...]

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More than ten years after it was published, Jose Saramago’s Nobel Prize-winning Blindness is about to hit the theaters (release is set for October 3rd by Miramax). In the story, people are suddenly stricken blind. Key words: epidemic, government, quarantine. I’m all for end-of-society stories, so I’m onboard for this flick. [...]

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Okay, now I’m way behind.   My wife lost her father a few weeks back and we’ve been very busy.  While you’re never really back to business after such a thing, business goes on — and so does the blog.  With that in mind, what a great way to start but with a heavy dose of [...]

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I finally caught the debut of NBC’s Fear Itself. Between Battlestar Galactica, Doctor Who and the horror flick The Last Winter, I hadn’t had the chance. Reviews were mixed on the Fear Itself premiere episode, written by the show’s creater Mick Garris. CBS’s Swingtown beat Fear Itself in the Nielsen Ratings, [...]

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Sci-fi author Cory Doctorow will be in Seattle this month, on a book tour for his new YA Little Brother. If you haven’t yet heard about Cory, you can check out more at his website craphound.com. He’s pushing the envelope for downloadable content for writers, which is always nice. Envelopes should be pushed. And [...]

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