DETECTIVE MOXLEY, Part 2: “Everybody’s Sorry”

Friday, January 9, 2015
By Phil Elmore
DETECTIVE MOXLEY, Part 2: “Everybody’s Sorry”

Moxley sat in a robot diner on Wernerplasse, rolling a flavored vapor tube from one corner of his mouth to the other. Before him on the table lay a pocket tab. He was using it to scroll through surveillance feeds. It made no sense. He simply could not wrap his brain around it. Ray... »

DETECTIVE MOXLEY, Part 1: “He Died Hard”

Friday, January 2, 2015
By Phil Elmore
DETECTIVE MOXLEY, Part 1: “He Died Hard”

“Well,” said Moxley, “he died hard. No argument there.” Siengold narrow-eyed the detective for all he was worth.  Siengold was a Goop; he was supposed to hate private detectives. Like so many of the government operatives, however, he took real pleasure in this particular unspoken tenet of his job.  Around the two men, a... »

Fighting Patterns of Kuntao and Silat

Monday, October 20, 2014
By Phil Elmore
Fighting Patterns of Kuntao and Silat

There is a distinct dearth of books on Liu Seong Gung Fu in general and Liu Seong Kuntao in particular. While there are a few, the art of Willem Reeders remains elusive and, for the most part, available only through in-person instruction from schools scattered around the country. Reeders first came to the East... »

Singham

Thursday, August 21, 2014
By Phil Elmore
Singham

Bajirao Singham’s “style of working” (hang on while I put on my Aviator sunglasses) is not a style, so much, as a mandate, where that mandate is to do whatever the hell you want.  Rohit Shetty’s immensely popular 2011 film, Singham (“Lion”) is a remake of an earlier Tamil film.  It stars Ajay Devgn... »

Singham Returns

Wednesday, August 20, 2014
By Phil Elmore
Singham Returns

“Singham Returns,” which comes on the heels of 2011’s “Singham,” is not a movie.  Rather, it is an experience, in which director Rohit Shetty’s vision of a tight-panted, tight-shirted, bemuscled Indian police officer in mirrored aviator shades is hammered home with all the sublety of an alcoholic uncle at an open-bar wedding reception.  Fully... »

Smooth Criminal: Good-Looking Men, the Internet, and Feminists

Sunday, June 29, 2014
By Phil Elmore
Smooth Criminal: Good-Looking Men, the Internet, and Feminists

“The hottie mugshot proves that crime pays—if you’re a man,” sniffs The Daily Dot. Chris Osterndorf, writing for the Internet gossip sheet, further laments that the viral mugshot photo of one Jeremy Meeks of Stockton must somehow be further proof of man’s pervasive victimization of woman (Women? Womyn?). “Jeremy Meeks might be objectively good... »