John Wiswell on the Web

I'm pleased to be a guest this month at Almost An Author, a site designed to help new writers shape their careers. Kathryn Johnson had m...

Bobby wanted to be a magician, but couldn't fit all the scarves up his sleeve and made a pocket dimension instead. He was a hack.

I am so unprepared for May. Are you unprepared for May? Well let's make it a little easier with some quality fiction and journalism. As ...

I'm happy to announce that I've sold a new story to Fireside Magazine ! I'm excited to be back with them, as they publish such a...

The first piece of my recent Good Newsathon has walked out into the world: "The Terrible" is in this month's Flash Fiction Onl...

It's been my busiest March in a while! A couple of brutal health episodes couldn't stop the train of goodness. In fact, I managed to...

This is a few days late, isn't it? I had to postpone a little for my Mock Oscars, covering Logan, and a certain wonderful event in my f...

Logan is to Wolverine what Deadpool is to Deadpool, significantly more faithful to the character than anything before it. Is it the best X...

It's almost March 2017, so of course we're all talking about the best movies of 2016. Personally, I'm most bummed that I missed ...

Since I couldn't sleep thanks to syndrome pain, I tried out Amazon's new show Patriot. It felt worth a shot given warm reviews and a...

This round-up has been on hiatus over a few particularly chaotic months, but is back for 2017. A few old stories and articles popped up in h...

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...