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A NEW Book: The MARVEL-Us Era!

When I published the “Director’s Cut” of my book Cinemagogue last Christmas, the end of that edition teased a brand-new book coming in 2024! And we’re
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A TIMELY Endorsement

Fresh from the hit Disney+ show LOKI, the mysterious Miss Minutes gives the new Cinemagogue Book a ringing endorsement in this parody put together by some
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Sneak Peak at CINEMAGOGUE: Director’s Cut

Read the first few (ALL-NEW!) pages of James’ updated/expended edition of the book that started it all! Available in paperback, hardcover and Kindle 11-23-23! prologue: a
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Something Wicked This Way Comes?

No, this isn’t a review of the Ray Bradbury story-turned-film… though we really SHOULD get to that some day. Great book, wonderfully fun movie… although we’d
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Like Unto a Thing of IRON (Fist)

“I am as light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a schoolboy. I am as giddy as
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10 Reasons Superman’s Dad was RIGHT.

With Batman v Superman flying into theaters soon, and the MCU about to have a Civil War, the morality and ethics of “superheroing” is coming sharply
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14 movies for 2014: The Cinemagogue Lineup

Once again, it’s that time of year when Hollywood’s snobbery surfaces with Oscar-sized pats on the back for pretentious cinematic achievements that didn’t make much money… Okay,
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Oh God… You’re in my Fiction?

Nury Vittachi recently published an article on the Science 2.0 website entitled “Scientists Discover that atheists might not exist, and that’s not a joke“ and, while
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Cutting to the Core: Finding the Meta-narrative

In 2008 I was asked to write an article for Collide Magazine. In a lot of ways this treatise on story served as a primer for