After five years of posting my DVD and Blu-Ray reviews at other sites - first at filmmaker Kevin Smith's Movie Poop Shoot, then Quick Stop Entertainment, and, most recently, at Forces of Geek - I have finally decided to publish them exclusively on my own, dedicated website. As of Monday, DVD Late Show Version 2.0 officially "re-launched" at
DVD LATE SHOW.
There are a number of reasons for this. Among them is a general dissatisfaction with how the "column" version of DVDLS had evolved, and the fact that it didn't really seem to fit in stylistically with the other features at FOG. Also, I confess that I had trouble maintaining the regular schedule. One reason for that was my self-imposed requirement to have a certain word count per installment, and sometimes it took too long to get the necessary number of reviews done to fill a column. Sometimes, there would be a drought of review material, which also made keeping the schedules difficult to keep. And, finally, sometimes I had more pressing assignments that had to take priority over the unpaid gig.
Well, no longer. In the new incarnation, I will be posting reviews as they are completed rather than waiting to fill out a column, which means more frequent overall updating. I will also be free to include Amazon links for the convenience of my readers, in case anyone wants to purchase the reviewed titles. And most importantly, I will be able to archive all my DVD Late Show reviews - several hundred of them, going back to early 2005 - in one place. This last one is very important to me; those reviews represent a whole lot of hours' investment, and I didn't like the fact that the earliest ones were effectively lost. (Also, virtually all of those discs are still available out there, so the reviews may still be helpful to people.)
I am currently moving all of those reviews to the new site. I have over 320 articles in place now, and I have a lot more to go, but I'm getting there!
PLEASE check out the
site, and if you find it entertaining and/or helpful, bookmark it, and make it a regular stop. Spread the word, link to it. If I'm going to need a lot of traffic/hits to make it feasible and keep it going. As long as I have material on hand, new reviews will be posted on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
Also, on the off chance that folks here may be interested, I also maintain several blogs:
ATOMIC PULP - shameless self-promotion and obsessive pop culture commentary,
SPY-FI CHANNEL - devoted to spy fiction and films,
SPACE: 1970 - dedicated to 70's sci-fi shows and movies, and
GUNS IN THE GUTTERS - my too-infrequently-updated crime comics reviews and news.
