Blinks

Blinks: Horror, Sleator, Simmons, Ballard, Spaceships, Monitor

August 7, 2011August 17, 2017 admin

» NY Times Book Review: Terrence Rafferty’s Horror column is on The State of Zombie Literature

» NY Times obit for William Sleator

» LA Times: Nick Owchar reviews Dan Simmons’ Flashback

» Washington Post: Troy Jollimore reviews J.G. Ballard’s Millennium People

» BBC’s What should spaceships look like? with comments by Chris Foss, Gary Westfahl, and Eric Rabkin

» Locus Online editorial blog: A Note about Locus Online’s Monitor Listings

Films

Joker: Folie à Deux Movie Review by Erin Underwood

October 9, 2024 locusmag 0

Joker: Folie à Deux starring Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga follows up the 2019 smash hit Joker. The film was easily one of the most anticipated movies of 2024, which automatically puts it at a disadvantage when trying to meet the audience’s expectations. However, Joker: Folie à Deux just might be a prime example of why studios need to rethink their current approach to filmmaking when a film that should

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Cory Doctorow: No One Is the Enshittifier of Their Own Story

May 6, 2024 locusmag 0

No one was more surprised than I was when the American Dialect Society named ‘‘enshittification’’ – my dirty little coinage to describe how everything on the internet is (suddenly, simultaneously) getting (much) worse – to be its Word of the Year. But though the news was a surprise, it was a very pleasant one. My early writings on enshittification focused on its symptoms, the way platforms decay. The progression of

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