As I was thinking over the theme of this Roundtable, it occurred to me that “core competency” was not a straightforward issue for me. To begin with, there are the core areas I assumed I’d be pursuing when I began my site, some of which I never followed through on. Then, there are the things I still consider to be deeply important to me, but which are strangely, even shockingly under-represented in my twenty years’ worth of reviews. And then, there are the “competencies” (too strong a word, really) that other people tend to associate with me, simply because — regardless of what I originally intended, regardless of what I’ve cultivated privately — these were the things I actually did.
Bearing that in mind, I identified two themes that represent me a little bit more than I’d ever expected them to:
- Horror flicks from Southeast Asia; and
- Ridiculously ambitious projects that never get finished.
Will I ever make it all the way up the mountain to Part XV? Keep watching this space!
Will Laughlin is the Braineater.
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With the skill of the legendary director Isaac Florentine, 
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