This post originally appeared on Yelp. It details my 3-month long battle to get health insurance from the MA Health Connector.

I struggled to understand why Interstellar didn't strike a "spiritual" chord with me. So I rewatched Contact, which also stars Matthew McConaughey.

The real appeal of Transistor, however, isn't in the novel game play or the beautiful, cell-shaded backdrops; it's in the game's powerful ability to immerse you in a narrative that unfolds as you play it.

Despite all these achievements, Inception's narrative flaws keep it from leaving a permanent impression on my brain, like Dark City and The Matrix have.

Despite all the complaints about hokey dialogue and clichés in Avatar, we have one very interesting transhumanist concept I haven't seen depicted on the big screen anywhere else.

What sets a film like District 9 apart from the rest is its willingness to be thematically unrelenting, to mix fantasy with drama—to take itself seriously.

How many times is Kirk going to fall to his death or teeter on the brink of destruction? That's all there is to Kirk in Star Trek 2.0. There's not much time for chitchat when everything's exploding every ten seconds.

What I like about Rorschach is that, on the most superficial level, he embodies the antithesis to utilitarian compromise, a "black and white" perspective in a morally indifferent universe.

Do Doubleday and Anchor Books think that blatant regurgitation of portions of text from earlier books in the series is okay because these books are so difficult to comprehend?

Novels aren't YouTube videos. Buying random chunks from a novel is analogous to buying pixels from a jpeg, or fourteen seconds from an mp3, or the middle forty-thousand frames of a music video.