Nicholas Bruner
Fantasy, Science Fiction, and Young Adult Author
Category: nfp
Scary Movies: House of Wax
As usual in October, I’m running a little behind on my horror movie reviews! Okay, we’ve seen a good one and a bad one in the past couple weeks. Let’s start with the bad one! The House of Wax stars Vincent Price as Dr.… Continue Reading “Scary Movies: House of Wax”
What I’m Reading: A Single Happened Thing
Ack, I’m falling behind! Before I rate some more scary movies, I want to briefly review A Single Happened Thing, by Daniel Paisner. This book follows New York City book publicist David Felb, who has a boring, normal, and kind of disappointing life until… Continue Reading “What I’m Reading: A Single Happened Thing”
Scary Movies: The Raven
It’s October, and that means it’s time for the annual Bruner horror movie festival! Our first movie this year is The Raven, the second Roger Corman-directed Edgar Allan Poe movie we’ve watched (last year I reviewed Tales of Terror). The Raven is a horror-comedy,… Continue Reading “Scary Movies: The Raven”
Ranking: Man of Steel
Man of Steel came out in 2013, and if I remember, it was critically panned at the time. I watched it recently with my son, and we enjoyed it pretty well! Not the greatest comic movie I’ve ever seen but perfectly entertaining. I rank this… Continue Reading “Ranking: Man of Steel”
Ranking: Avengers: Infinity War
Avengers: The Infinity War is what the Marvel movies have been building up to for many years. Hints about the villain, Thanos, have been seeded in movies going back at least to the first Avengers movie in 2012, and maybe farther (?). Thanos is a… Continue Reading “Ranking: Avengers: Infinity War”
What I’m Reading: Full of Beans
Beans lives in Key West, Florida, during the Depression, where every kid and adult seems to have a nickname. In fact, that’s about all they have, because the Depression has hit Key West hard, and there are no jobs or money available. The cigar-rolling… Continue Reading “What I’m Reading: Full of Beans”
Ranking: Logan
I’m falling behind on ranking my comic book movies! I have two I haven’t gotten to, and I haven’t even seen Ant-Man & the Wasp yet. So let’s start with the oldest one, Logan, which my son and I watched on DVD last weekend.… Continue Reading “Ranking: Logan”
What I’m Reading: Conversations of Socrates
After his execution in 400 BC, lots of Socrates’ friends and students wrote accounts of him, but the writings of only two of those authors survive today: Plato, with more than 20 dialogues “starring” his old teacher, and Xenophon, with four accounts (although Xenophon… Continue Reading “What I’m Reading: Conversations of Socrates”
