John Wiswell on the Web

Heads up, everybody: your marching is bothering the Republicans. Better cut it out. You know what special snowflakes they are. Did the pe...

While a terrible year for many things, 2016 was phenomenal for games. Not only do I passionately love more releases this year than normal, b...

Humans: ill kill and eat anything that looks good Lobster: I'm a bug that lives underwater. Humans: eh still Lobster: With claws! Hu...

The longer the live, the less I believe in objectively good literature. Even subjectively good literature is a concept deserving some scrut...

I suddenly beheld the figure of a man, at some distance, advancing towards me with superhuman speed. He bounded over the crevices in the ...

I'm tickled to be back at Daily Science Fiction this month with a new story: " Where I'm From, We Eat Our Parents ." The...

After I finished The Guest , I got on the elliptical and loaded up Netflix. By pure coincidence, We Are Still Here was next in my queue, ...

Patrick Stewart plays the leader of a ground of backwoods skinheads trying to kill a Punk band. Patrick Freaking Stewart. Captain P...

Today's is going to be a long post. Instead of just writing independent reviews of the two hot-topic films, I want to talk about them i...

The Guest s another of those movies I watched knowing nothing about. It's such a pleasure to take recommendations from friends and fin...

Today I’ve got two hot films from Korea, including one of the biggest Horror movies of the year. It’s going to be a good day. But befor...

Today we're talking about two movies I knew nothing about. These were recommended by good friends and I went in completely ignorant. Par...

It’s a two-second shot that defines the movie. The camera points up a cramped street as wreckage overflows into it, literal tons of boats a...

Today is another one of those weird coincidences. Both of my movies were set out in the west - Bone Tomahawk attempting to blend Westerns ...

Welcome back to The Halloween List! I'm already overjoyed with this project, as it's giving me fascinating movies to watch during ot...

It's my first week of Halloween movies and I'm already joyous. By pure coincidence, I watched all the movies beginning with "Th...

It’s my favorite time of the year! The air smells of falling leaves, the forest grows beautiful in color, the sunsets are richer, and all th...

Horror Fan 1: And then what happens? Horror Fan 2: That morning she thinks she finds his tongue outside her tent! But that night ...

September is half-over and Christmas decorations are starting to crop up in department stores. 2016 is a dying beast, and some people ar...

I'm packing up for Worldcon right now, but I have three pieces of good news to share before I go! 1. I'll be making my second appe...

Erica is a writer whose short fiction I've admired for a while now, and I'm excited to share my blog today as she prepares to launch...

I'll be in Missouri next week for the annual Worldcon! It's my first year as a panelist, and I was invited to so many things I had t...

July is the month when I slammed into a wall. Going from 4th Street to driveway maintenance to Readercon to a college reunion pretty much de...

June is over! It has been conquered, and there is no more of it. I'm back from the first of three conventions this summer, and had a won...

Today I'm pleased to present a guest post from debut novelist Curtis Chen. Coming out June 21 from Thomas Dunne Books, it's a SciFi...

It wasn’t just Captain America who joined Hydra. Was it weird to you that in seventy years of continuity, Cap never mentioned his fascist...

Nerd Convention Season is picking up, so it’s time to figure out where we’re going. Last summer got kind of ridiculous for me, so I’m scalin...

There were too many good pieces of writing in May. As a result I only finished one novel and two non-fiction books (well, that and copious e...

Star Wars or Star Trek? My answer is X-Men. Because I grew up with them, I like my SciFi Extra-Special-Implausible. Not growing up with Sta...

Well, this is late. I've been sacked by a bronchial affair, one truly pesky insurgency that's left me lucid for less of this week th...