$183.83

As is often observed regarding…certain activities, you can only ever have one first time, so it’s possible that I may remember the figure $183.83 for quite a while, since that’s the amount of my very first royalty check from McFarland for Richard Matheson on Screen.  Okay, I’ve gotten—and appreciated—third-party checks representing my slice of the [...]

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WACT Alert 2/24/11

Just reporting briefly that the second half of my Jerry Sohl double-header can now be seen on We Are Controlling Transmission, and both garnered some very nice comments; in fact, the question of Milton Krims’s existence, or not, inspired an entire separate post by Outer Limits expert David J. Schow!  It’s interesting to note that [...]

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WACT Alert 2/23/11

The oft-mentioned John Scoleri is a Matheson expert of long standing, who has championed my book on his own and other websites, but when he invited me to contribute to We Are Controlling Transmission, where he and Peter Enfantino hold forth daily on an episode of The Outer Limits, I was both honored and apprehensive.  [...]

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Terence Fisher

On the occasion of 107th birthday, we revisit this SF-oriented profile written for the late, lamented original Scifipedia website. While his work epitomized the Gothic horror tales that secured the fortunes of England’s Hammer Films, director Terence Fisher (1904-80) also made his mark in the SF genre, there and elsewhere.  After unsuccessful careers in the [...]

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One for the Books

Another day, another title borrowed from Matheson—not that he coined the phrase or anything, but he did use it for a short story that he later adapted into a fun episode of Amazing Stories.  Be that as it may, John Kenneth Muir recently posted about the film and TV books he grew up with, and [...]

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Bradley’s Hundred #91-100

Eighty-fifth birthday wishes to Richard Matheson as we belatedly conclude the explication of my hundred favorite films, listed on the B100 page accessible above. Touch of Evil:  Beginning with a single, unbroken, three-minute crane shot following a car with a bomb in the trunk until it explodes, this is one of Orson Welles’s best films.  [...]

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Pumping Irony

Top 10 Post-Gubernatorial Schwarzenegger Films Quadruplets The Penultimate Action Hero Terminator 5: Social Insecurity Incomplete Recall Conan the Geriatric The Depend-ables Dry Heat Hercules in Boca Raton Lightly Poached Deal Shingles All the Way

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Reminder 2/9/11

I just wanted to urge everybody to catch the second-season premiere of Elmore Leonard’s series Justified, which debuts on FX at 10:00 tonight, with repeat airings at 11:00 PM and 1:00 AM, as well as on Saturday at 12:30 AM.  I don’t know whether to regard it as the ultimate vindication or a kick in [...]

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Whac-a-Matt

I recently told Madame BOF that I had come up with the perfect analogy for this Winter From Hell:  it’s like a big game of Whac-a-Mole, and we’re the moles—every time we think it’s safe to poke our heads up and try to reclaim our lives, POOM!  Never was this better illustrated than on Thursday…but [...]

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Publication Alert 2/2/11

Any pleasure I would have taken in reporting this news has been largely dampened—in every sense of the word—by the discovery (literally as I sat down to begin writing) of a new leak, in our bedroom ceiling this time, followed by the resurgence of an old leak in the basement, and a fruitless session of [...]

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