A few years ago, my brother Nick made a movie called Bomb Squad about four siblings who discover they have super powers. The story was based on one we imagined as kids, basically the answer to “what if the four of us had super powers?” Which ones would we have? What would our names be? What would our “hero” names be? What battles would we fight? My bro got into filmmaking and just went ahead and made the film. He wrote the script, storyboarded, got friends and colleagues […]

Sort of related, I promise: I unashamedly love zombie movies. They fascinate and terrify me. And after years of watching them, I’ve learned to go in with the expectation that everyone dies. Under no circumstances am I to get too attached to the characters or root too hard for my favorites, for therein lies only disappointment. Likewise, any discerning person knows not to get involved in a World War II story without a strong dose of expectation that most of the characters will die, be […]

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