by Drew Ellenwood | May 28, 2014 | Fantasy & Science Fiction
Seeing that monster movies fall within the purview of fantasy and science fiction, I give you a short thinker-blog for consideration. You go to Godzilla ready to cheer on humanity, but often times there’s more than one monster and the monsters fight each other. A...
by Drew Ellenwood | Apr 23, 2014 | Fantasy & Science Fiction
This week I’ve invited my daughter Lucy Wright to take a swing for us in the fantasy and science fiction world. Lucy revisits the topic of the pill to swallow in fantasy and science fiction. In our first installment on this subject, I sited some examples where the...
by Drew Ellenwood | Apr 9, 2014 | Out-Genre
A fantasy and/or science fiction fan doesn’t have to be bound to watching movies only in the fantasy and science fiction realm. Outside the genre are excellent examples of what story can do. Stretch your horizons and take in these five movies exemplifying story....
by Drew Ellenwood | Feb 19, 2014 | Fantasy & Science Fiction
Let’s look into the intriguing world of Panem from The Hunger Games Trilogy. No spoilers though! You need to find out some things yourself. That’s the fun of reading! Those moments of “No way!” or “Yikes!” or “Ah Pa, that makes me cry.” Through the three books,...
by Drew Ellenwood | Feb 14, 2014 | Fantasy & Science Fiction
Face it: As genres go, fantasy and science fiction do not lend themselves well to romance. Now before you protest by citing examples of book covers, let me say that romance is more than a buxom vixen next to a muscle man riding a dragon. That’s not romance; that’s...
