The Evil Show by James Roland I made an unsettling discovery. I was watching a movie trailer the other day. It was playing in the background while I was cleaning the living room. I had my back turned to the screen when I suddenly heard a familiar voice that I hadn’t heard in years. This […]
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Basically, the internet is a giant water cooler where every person in the world can come and shoot the irreverent breeze.
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Tales From the Mid-life by James Roland Stephen King is old. He is rapidly approaching the big Six-O, and it shows. King’s work was never driven by thrill-a-minute plot points; his stories show a real talent for understanding the inner workings of the quote – human condition – unquote. But as he ages (wine connoisseurs […]
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No, It’s Spelled T-H-E-A-T-R-E by James Roland Six years ago, when apes leapt before monoliths, and dinosaurs noticed the air was getting a little nippy, I learned to love the theatre. I even tried my hand at acting. I could never muster the courage to audition until Doug Kerr, resident director and all-around theatre guru […]
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This Might Qualify as Libel by James Roland V for Vendetta is about a theocratic dictatorship that rapes helpless women and burns art . . . and the flamboyantly gay community-theatre actor who tries to stop them by killing old women in their beds and blowing up famous landmarks in London. Do you really need […]
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Hiking the Web by James Roland This article has been archived in RedFence Print Edition One, available now at the Store.
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The Man Behind the Curtain by James Roland So, I’m wondering if art was invented by a coward. Because I don’t think art is brave . . . or, maybe sometimes it is, or was, back in the day of pissy French kings or twisted Caesars, but not anymore. Art is kind of like a […]
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Dead Man’s Best by James Roland SPOILER ALERT So, why is it that every Hollywood franchise (other than X-Men and Spiderman) decides to make sequels instead of movies? The first frantic twenty minutes of Pirates of the Carribean: Dead Man’s Chest feels like a speed-date style family reunion. Characters move at a lightning pace, spilling […]
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Reinstate the First Draft by James Roland B. Daltons are the worst kind of bookstore, growing in the damp and dim corners of shopping malls, wedged between an Orange Julius and that $10.00 For Everything shop that disappears and reappears so often I think it’s being run by gypsies. The entrance to a B. Dalton […]
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Most Men Lead Lives of Quiet Desperation: The Movie by James Roland The average working stiff spends most of his life at a boring, dead-end job making just enough money to pay the bills and rent a video on Friday night. Steven Soderbergh decided that would make a great movie. Soderbergh helmed the fan favorite […]
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