I'll assume some are living under a rock. "Scarface" is the epic 1983 crime drama directed by Brian De Palma, written by then-...

Drunks have always been drunks... Recently, The London Daily Mail compiled a collection of vintage shame-faced Edwardian drunks as they star...

There was a ton of shit to get before the baby arrived. Like most men, he started to stress and dread the arrival. If they were lucky, he th...

I love how every now and then playwright David Mamet goes on one of his rants. This time, the Pulitizer-Prize winning scribe had some ire f...

It's great to see more and more entertainment properties these days being derived from books. The FX series "Justified" uses t...

Trixi had been with the roller derby roughly two years and felt every bit of it. Bruised and battered at the end of each season proved that ...

While most are touting the Apple iTab, iSlab, iPad or whatever-the-frig they're calling that thing a game-changer, I believe the real g...

Get ready Poe junkies because yet another Edgar Allan film is in the works... News has recently hit the interwebs (via the India Times ) of ...

Anyone who knows good crime writing knows scribe Elmore Leonard . Most people, however, may know his work in crime fiction and suspense thr...

The three of us met in on a base in Okinawa right before the end of the war. Sam, always the big galoot, worked on planes that Buddy the Hic...

By now, we all know that George Clooney is a guy's guy and all and probably one of the coolest men on the planet. That's a given. It...

I first saw them in Atlantic City sometime before the war. I had just opened a popcorn and peanut stand across from the Steel Pier and one m...

Being that this is Oscar week and all my esteemed writing bud Absolutely*Kate asked many of her peeps to provide some sort of film-related c...

I remember in high school that I was assigned to read a fair share of Dystopian novels. Looking back, it was completely understandable since...