Embrace the Offense
I don't mind telling you that I had a pretty turbulent week last week. Fortunately I had Pop Offensive to help me blow off some steam. And now, you do too, thanks to the miracle of streaming...
View ArticleIt's the FRIDAY'S BEST POP SONG EVER podcast! "I Can't Let Maggie Go'
On this latest episode of the Friday's Best Pop Song Ever podcast, I tackle a question that has haunted man since the dawn of lunchtime: Could Honeybus have been as big as the Beatles? Though perhaps...
View ArticleA miniature offense
On last week's Pop Offensive, we conducted an experiment in scale and learned that, like Ant-Man, a very short song can be just as powerful as one of average length. That's right, for the better part...
View ArticlePdocast on FIre's Taiwan Noir episode #29: Kung Fu Wonder Child and The...
You may have noticed that, in recent episodes of Taiwan Noir, Ken and I have fallen down something of a K hole with these crazy taiwanese fantasy matrial arts films. But oh what a sweet, um, hole it's...
View ArticleA Heroic Fight (Taiwan, 1986)
Over my years of writing 4DK, I’ve developed an obsession with the Taiwanese actress Lam Siu Law, an extremely appealing performer who, for the better part of the 80s, played the adolescent male...
View ArticleEk Tha Tiger (India, 2012)
As the man who literally wrote the book on 1970s Indian action movies, it was enlightening for me to see a more recent example of the Bollywood spy films that the Hindi film industry is so fond of...
View ArticleIt's the FRIDAY'S BEST POP SONG EVER Podcast, Episode #19: Do Ya
The Move are one of the greatest British pop bands to ever fail miserably at charting in the U.S. The closest they came was with "Do Ya", which was covered and released as a single by Move member Jeff...
View ArticleMurdered... Battered... Abused... Taken... but NEVER DIVIDED
At the moment I'm preparing NEVER DIVIDED, the third and final novel in my SF Punk Trio that started in 2017 with PLEASE DON'T BE WAITING FOR ME, for publication in July. Until then, you can visit the...
View ArticleBad Black (Uganda, 2016)
With Who Killed Captain Alex¸ Ugandan zero-budget auteur Isaac Nabwana, aka Nabwana I.G.G., proved his marketing acumen by allowing the film to be released for free on YouTube, paving the way for it to...
View ArticleIt's the FRIDAY'S BEST POP SONG EVER Podcast, #20: Out of Sight, Out of Mind
It's the last Friday of the month and you know what that means: A new episode of the Friday's Best Pop Song Ever podcast--episode twenty, to be exact. This time I've excavated another little known pop...
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