Hollywood & Spine Hollywood & Spine Archive: Tome-inator An overview of the novelization to TERMINATOR 2: JUDGMENT DAY, originally published November 2019.
John Williams Dear John A new documentary on the legendary film composer is insightful, even as it leaves you wanting more.
Hollywood & Spine Hollywood & Spine Archive: Halloweek, Part 5 - The Night 'Halloween: Illustrated' Came Home A 2023 interview with the publisher of an illustrated edition of the long out-of-print novelization to HALLOWEEN.
Hollywood & Spine Hollywood & Spine Archive: Halloweek, Part 4 - Evil Changes Shape An overview to the novelization of HALLOWEEN ENDS, originally published December 2022.
Hollywood & Spine Hollywood & Spine Archive: Halloweek, Part 3 - Evil Dies Tonight An overview of the novelization to HALLOWEEN KILLS, originally published in November 2022.
Hollywood & Spine Hollywood & Spine Archive: Halloweek, Part 2 - You Can't Kill the Boogeyman An overview of the novelization of HALLOWEEN (2018), originally published in November 2022.
Hollywood & Spine Hollywood & Spine Archive: Halloweek, Part 1 - So Expensive, It's Scary An overview of the novelization to HALLOWEEN (1978), originally published in October 2021.
Hollywood & Spine Hollywood & Spine Archive: Never Say Die An overview of the novelization to THE GOONIES, originally published in October 2020.
Hollywood & Spine Hollywood & Spine Archive: Transatlantic Bustin' An overview to two novelizations of GHOSTBUSTERS, originally published in October 2019.
Movies Man and Superman The new Christopher Reeve documentary does an astounding job of humanizing Superman.
Hollywood & Spine Hollywood & Spine Archive: Mortal Monday An overview of two MORTAL KOMBAT novelizations - one based on the game, one on the film - originally published in April 2021.
Music From the Archive: Another Little Piece of My Heart In my time working for record labels, I had the good fortune to write some sponsored editorial pieces for Discogs, one of the websites I visit most. Many of them have been published here before, and dealt with Prince. One, however, had to do with an artist I didn'
Hollywood & Spine Hollywood & Spine Archive: You Find This Man An overview to the novelization of THE FUGITIVE, originally published in September 2020.
Hollywood & Spine Hollywood & Spine Archive: Watch the Skies An overview to the novelization (and reprint) of CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND, originally published in August 2023.
Hollywood & Spine Hollywood & Spine Archive: Khan-fidentially Yours An overview of the novelization to STAR TREK II: THE WRATH OF KHAN, originally published September 2020.
Hollywood & Spine Hollywood & Spine Archive: 'Snakes' with Bite An overview of the novelization to SNAKES ON A PLANE, originally published in August 2021.
Hollywood & Spine Hollywood & Spine Archive: The Un-Shagadelic Truth A dive into the AUSTIN POWERS novelization that doesn't actually exist. Originally published August 2020.
From the Archive From the Archive: Like a Version In this archived piece from 2019 - before Taylor Swift made good on her plan to re-record her back catalogue - I wrote this history and critique of the practice.
Hollywood & Spine Hollywood & Spine Archive: Where Do I Begin? An overview of the novelization to LOVE STORY, originally published in August 2020.
Started from the Bottom Started from the Bottom: Week of 8/27/1988 Hot hits and middling bops from the dog days of summer '88!
Hollywood & Spine Hollywood & Spine Archive: 'The Rose' in Bloom An overview of the novelization to THE ROSE, originally published in July 2022.
Hollywood & Spine Hollywood & Spine Archive: Foster Cares A review of novelization legend Alan Dean Foster's memoir THE DIRECTOR SHOULD'VE SHOT YOU, originally published in July 2021.
