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I Reviewed a Fistful of Giallos at 366Weird

OK, if two Giallo movies count as “a fistful,” that’s how many I covered at 366Weird lately and haven’t had the time to blog-blab about it yet. Forgive me if I burrow under the icebergs once in awhile, I am a busy penguin. That’s reviews of The Fifth Cord (1971) and All the Colors of the Dark (1972).

I loves me some Giallo, so much so that the editors at 366Weird pretty much leave everything in that genre up to me now. Even though I’ll be the first to admit that Giallo movies are often hokey, derivative, and usually out of their mind, I can’t get enough of the atmosphere, arty filming, and pulp fiction vibe from this charming little corner of cinema.

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IMGUR dump: Vintage Science Fiction from the Golden Age

My latest IMGUR image essay is a tour of Golden Age Science and Speculative Fiction. It’s a nostalgic trip through sci fi as I discovered it growing up, from TV series to movies to magazines to the glory of paperback novel hounding at used bookstores. It was a damn fun post to throw together and I hope everyone has fun remembering the classics or discovering the forgotten gems from the sub-Atomic Age of Sci-Fi.

UPDATE – Related science fiction stuff:

The Most Underrated Post-Apocalyptic Sci-Fi Movies – Looking for sci-fi movies that actually peg the apocalypse? Here’s a list of the more realistic takes on the end of civilization as we know it.
Things CoronaVirus Has Taught Me About Apocalyptic / Dystopian Sci-Fi – COVID-19 pointed out the plot holes in our concept of what an apocalypse would look like.
Groundhog Day and Time Travel in Sci-Fi – On Groundhog Day, we marked the best time travel movies which treat the premise with the playful fun it deserves.
Five Sci-Fi Novels Just Waiting To Be Adapted To Film – While Hollywood is scrounging the bottom of the bargain comic books bin looking for yet another superhero movie, these epic science fiction languish in the darkness without a film adaptation.
Why Do We Force-Feed Dystopian Literature To Students? – You’re not living in a dystopia; I checked for you.
Best Devotional Items For Alternative Religions – Show your faith in the new breed of gods for the thinking age, like the Flying Spaghetti Monster or Dr. J.R. “Bob” Dobbs.

A Biography of Author J.K. Rowling

Originally published 2007, part of a series I did for a biography website. Can’t even remember who now, but it’s long gone.

Joanne “Jo” Rowling writes under the pen name “J. K. Rowling”, has had a personal net worth of just over $1 billion USD. The public knows her best as the author who gave the world the character Harry Potter, which has spawned a whole media franchise. Though she makes her living telling stories of magical fantasy, her own story is no less amazing.

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