Also check out this month’s Dark Eclipse #4, featuring my review of “The Siege of Trencher’s Farm” and part four of Craig Garrett‘s awesome “Last Man Without a Tan”!

Real Steel is the kind of 80’s PG-13 action-adventure/comedy-relationship flick you’ve been waiting for since, well, the 80’s. Loosely based on the Richard Matheson story “Steel” (and by loosely based on, I mean took the central idea of boxing robots from…), Real Steel follows down-on-his-luck ex-boxer Charlie Kenton (Jackman), a man stuck in a near-future funk,  his boxing career taken away when human pugilism was replaced by the bigger show of giant robots beating each other to “death”. Charlie struggles against his own bad decisions and his fragile ego more than anything else, which seems to lock him into a constant state of broke-ass despair. Check out my review of the Hugh Jackman robot-boxing flick REAL STEEL now live on the Eyecrave Network!!

Get the hell in the way-back machine and check out a brand new Mickey Spillane for Twenty-Eleven!

How is this possible, you may well ask? Mickey Spillane has been dead for 5 years, you say? Well, shut your mouth and open your ears, Sunshine. Here is the tale:

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Our pals over at Castle Macabre are hosting their Frightful Fall Read-a-Thon this week, which means I have to read some more books!

I’m heading off the week with Rob Mosca’s High Midnight, which comes to us care of Dark Moon Books and is some kind of wild pastiche of post-apocalyptic western, juggalo-ultraviolence and dark humor…