Over at The Torch Online Heather Hogan has put together a nice preview of upcoming fantasy films in 2010. Quite a few films coming out this year, including some big ones. Ms. Hogan has previewed 15 films, the most notable, in my opinion, being Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief, Voyage of the Dawn Treader, Iron Man 2, Robin Hood, and last but not least, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1.
Check out all the previews, since there’s also quite a few others of interest to people who regularly read this blog. Oh yeah, there’s also some movie with sparkly vampires coming out this year too.
The last time I asked for donations, it was because the site’s bills were due, and it wasn’t looking good for me to be able to keep things going here. In other words, last time, it was really needed. That bill only comes due every other year.
Presently, however, there are a few things I want to get done with this site – improving its functionality, giving the insides (especially the forum) a paint job, etc. These aren’t necessary for the site to continue functioning, but I do think it’ll make the place a nicer one to visit and work better as a place to continue discussing great literature and culture.
We’ve got a brilliant artist on the Blogengamot – Aaron J. Smith. The thing is, this is what he does for a living, and he’s been exceedingly generous to me with his work. So I’m hosting a February giveaway contest to compensate Aaron for his tremendous work, and the stuff he intends to do for this site over the next month or two.
To that end, any donation of $10 or more automatically enters you into a drawing to win one of three autographed copies of Harry Potter & Imagination: The Way Between Two Worlds. Any donation of $50 or more in the month of February guarantees you a FREE copy of my newest book, I Want to Be Harry Potter, due out this summer. Not only this, but the $50 donation also gets your name put in the book’s acknowledgements!
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Pub Patron “Mr. Pond” has a great blog, if you didn’t already know: The Paradoxes of Mr. Pond. Last week, we had a great phone conversation which he’s written up into three parts. I hope you enjoy it, and do subscribe to Mr. Pond’s blog if you haven’t already!
Okay, so “gamerize” is a term I just made up. But, as a full-time grad student, now, I have some license to do such things. In fact, it’s sort of expected of us so long as we take at least ten double-spaced pages to define the term. But I’ll spare me the pain of writing it, and you the torture of reading it…
As the title of the post suggests, there is, in fact, a video game adaptation of The Inferno due to be released on February 9th, called Dante’s Inferno. It’s published by Electronic Arts, and is developed by one of EA’s in-house teams, Visceral (more on EA later***). As you can tell by the screenshot above, the game takes significant liberties with Dante’s medieval classic.
Below is a story trailer for the game from IGN’s website. There is an age gate, but the trailer is safe for work, so to speak.
Any fans of LOST out there? Tonight, we get three full hours to start off the final season! (The first hour is recap.)
This has been a fascinating series of television, full of references to many of our favorite authors and philosophers (Charlotte Staples Lewis (?!), Edmund Burke, John Locke, among many others). The tension between [...]
With the inspiration of revgeorge, and the urging of Red Rocker, I shall open up this little post for us all to provide and discuss some of our favorite movie quotes. Whether you remember Humphrey Bogart in Casablanca, George Clooney in Oh Brother, Where Art Though?, or Michael Gamb… Well, I guess I shouldn’t get [...]
John Carpenter (did he get that name from The Day the Earth Stood Still?)has made some great movies. They’ll always be associated with my teen years (not all of them, of course) and some of the music scores he’s written are still in my head.
Please let us know what you like and why you [...]
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