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Sean Gill's "The Mysterious Ecastasy of Ken Griffey Jr. Presents Major League...
My latest essay, "The Mysterious Ecstasy of Ken Griffey Jr. Presents Major League Baseball for Super Nintendo," chronicles the delightfully bizarre cultural connections (involving the likes of Stephen...
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Film Review: THE FORCE WITHIN (1993, Richard E. Brooks)
Stars: I don't even know anymore, man, out of 5. Running Time: 82 minutes.Notable Cast or Crew: Stuart Steel, Joseph Campanella (NIGHT GALLERY, THE GOLDEN GIRLS, MANNIX), Kathleen Kelly,...
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Only now does it occur to me... PERVERSION STORY
Only now does it occur to me... that Lucio Fulci staged one of the most outré striptease numbers to ever appear in a third-rate VERTIGO remake.The film in question is PERVERSION STORY (a.k.a., ONE ON...
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Only now does it occur to me... THE INDIAN RUNNER
Only now does it occur to me... that the probability of the THE INDIAN RUNNER existing is so unlikely that I'm not, in fact, sure that it does exist.Picture, if you will, a movie directed by Hollywood...
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Only now does it occur to me... CLEOPATRA JONES
Only now does it occur to me.... that Shelley Winters' name––writ in the 'CLEOPATRA JONES font' and projected against a Tatooine-esque Turkish landscape––might have inspired the iconic STAR WARS main...
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Only now does it occur to me... THE GOLDEN CHILD
Only now does it occur to me... that John Carpenter and THE GOLDEN CHILD share a curious history. Apparently, the script to THE GOLDEN CHILD––a fantasy/action/comedy rooted in surreal distortions of...
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"You Can't Superglue Your Way Out of This One" in The Carolina Quarterly
My latest short story "You Can't Superglue Your Way Out of This One" (about two couples, an excruciating dinner, and a pet tortoise) has been published in the Summer 2018 (Vol. 67, No. 2) issue of The...
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"Little Green Men" in The Saturday Evening Post
I have a new short story about boys who play at war called "Little Green Men" that has been published in The Saturday Evening Post. Founded in 1821, The Saturday Evening Post has published authors such...
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My latest short story, "For Want of a Better Word," is featured in the new issue of The Cincinnati Review as the winner of their ninth annual Robert and Adele Schiff Award in Prose. Fiction Editor...
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Only now does it occur to me... MUPPETS FROM SPACE
Only now does it occur to me... that F. Murray Abraham, playing the Biblical Noah, once barred Gonzo from entering the ark,damned him to death by drowning,and then gave him a tiny umbrella to rub salt...
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Only now does it occur to me... THE DEVIL'S ADVOCATE
Only now does it occur to me... that the 1997 supernatural courtroom thriller THE DEVIL'S ADVOCATE is not merely a vehicle for Keanu Reeves to give voice to one of the worst Southern accents ever...
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Only now does it occur to me... BRING IT ON
Only now does it occur to me... that early '00s cheerleader classic BRING IT ON contains an extended homage to Bob Fosse's 1979 masterpiece ALL THAT JAZZ.Midway through the film, after the rich girls...
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Film Review: HIGHLANDER III: THE FINAL DIMENSION (1994, Andrew Morahan)
Stars: 2 of 5. Running Time: 99 minutes.Notable Cast or Crew: Christopher Lambert (HIGHLANDER, SUBWAY, HAIL CAESAR!), Mario Van Peebles (RAPPIN', HEARTBREAK RIDGE), Deborah Kara Unger (CRASH,...
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Only now does it occur to me... LINK
Only now does it occur to me... okay, a few things. LINK is a "killer ape" movie (it was pitched as "JAWS with apes") in the vein of MONKEY SHINES and Edgar Allan Poe's "Murders in the Rue Morgue." It...
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Only now does it occur to me... GLITTER
Only now does it occur to me... that Mariah Carey's much-reviled 2001 film GLITTER contains an obscure reference to the seminal '80s trashterpiece BODY ROCK. This brings me much joy––a joy of the sort...
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"The Computer Man" in a New Anthology from The Fiction Desk
My latest short story "The Computer Man"––which was chosen as one of the winners of The Fiction Desk's 2017 Flash Fiction Competition––is now available for purchase in print as part of the anthology,...
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Only now does it occur to me... FIREFOX
Only now does it occur to me.... that Clint Eastwood basically outsourced the villains of his Cold War caper FIREFOX to the Lucas/Spielberg industrial complex.The Russian villains you see before you...
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Sean Gill Chosen as a Finalist for The Lascaux Prize in Flash Fiction
The Lascaux Review has just announced that my noirish short story, "Cranberry's Last Dance," has been chosen as one of the finalists of their 2018 Prize in Flash Fiction. It will appear in print in...
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Sean Gill's "The Mongrels" in Joyland Magazine
My latest short story, "The Mongrels," a morbid fantasy set in the Midwest, has been published in Joyland Magazine and is available to read online.Founded in 2008, Joyland Magazine has featured work by...
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Only now does it occur to me... THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME
Only now does it occur to me... that it took––no joke––twenty-five writers and a lyricist in order for the 1996 animated film THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME to improve upon the 1831 Victor Hugo novel of...
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