“In the Dark” is a weekly e-zine (that’s a fancy word for “e-mail”) featuring Eric’s movie reviews, box office scores and other film-related merriment, all delivered straight to your e-mailbox.

And it’s FREE! And, since it’s supported by advertisers (who buy small text ads in the e-zine), it will always be free! None of that outrageous “charging you for services rendered” that some capitalist pig dogs try to pull.

In a nutshell, here’s what you’ll get every Friday:

- A full-length review of that week’s best and/or highest-profile release.
- Capsule reviews of the other new releases, with links to Eric’s full reviews.
- A heads-up on what was released on DVD that week.
- Recommendations on what else is worth seeing that weekend, aside from the new releases.
- Links to reviews of films that you should NOT see, but whose reviews may amuse you.
- The box office scores from the previous weekend.
- Whatever other movie-related things we think of.

Eric’s reviews will continue to be available at EricDSnider.com, of course. “In the Dark” is simply a way for you to get them more conveniently, and with a little more specialized content than is currently available on the site.

We’ll never sell or give your address to anyone. And we’ll never spam you, either: You’ll get the weekly e-zine (in pure text form, no HTML), and that’s it.

So sign up today! It’s like getting a weekly e-mail from a friend who only talks about movies who you don’t have to write back to!

For a sample issue, and to sign up, go here.

A few months ago my friend Luscious Malone and I were visiting our friends Pants and Mrs. Pants at their home in Las Vegas. For some reason, Luscious wanted to know what I would leave everyone in the event of my death. And so my tentative Last Will & Testament was made out, with the following items left to the following people:

Smacky: Satellite and TiVo
Luscious: The Laotion children who work in my sweatshop; the Bic four-color pens that I carry with me at all times
The Clarks: My churchy books, DVDs of “Six Feet Under” and “24″
The Pantses: Tapes of “Simpsons” and “Seinfeld”
My parents: My fake plastic dog Junko, all my credit card debt
My brothers and sisters: ??
The Eric D. Snider Foundation for the Performing Arts: All original works and compositions

It was also noted that the funeral luncheon would include chocolate fudge Pop-Tarts, because Luscious Malone believes that to be my favorite food.

A while back, I posted the angry letters I’d gotten in response to my review of “Diary of a Mad Black Woman,” currently in the running for Worst Film of the Year. Well, here is an angry letter I got in response to my posting the angry letters. The subject line is “THE YOUNG WOMAN WHO DID NOT EMBRACE YOUR REVIEW,” and the text is as follows:

You have never been Black and would not know one if it slapped you in the face [Actually, I am pretty sure I would know a black person if one slapped me in the face. In fact, I have often been able to recognize such a person even without being slapped by him or her.] …Do the young people [I think she means "TO the young people," as the rest of the letter seems addressed to them] who read Black reviews….White folks do not have a clue about who and where you come.. [It's true, I have no idea who black people come, much less where they come.] DO NOT READ ANY BLACK MOVIE REVIEWS…..EMBRACE YOUR SISTERS AND BROTHERS MOVIES…I LEARNED THIS A LONG TIME AGO…

If the message here is that blacks should embrace movies made by blacks simply BECAUSE they’re made by blacks, then I could not disagree with that message any more strenuously. People should embrace movies because they are good, not because you share a background with the people who made them.

In 1999, I published “Snide Remarks II: Electric Boogaloo,” a compilation of 20 columns that had been published over the previous two years in The Daily Universe, BYU’s student newspaper and birthplace of “Snide Remarks.”

The book sold well at the cover price of $7, and continues to sell in trickles, even though many years have passed since its initial printing.

But now I am tired of the book.

There are 255 copies of it, including a cache I’d forgotten about that I have just discovered, currently occupying valuable space in my apartment. I want them gone. I want them out of here. And I want them out of here NOW.

So from now until they are gone, all copies of this book are selling for $5 instead of $7, and there are NO SHIPPING AND HANDLING CHARGES!

That’s right, $5 gets you the book, autographed by me and mailed to your home, dorm or cellblock. Give me a sawbuck or a personal check, or send me $5 through Paypal, and the book is yours.

Only 255 left — too many to be sitting in boxes in my closet, but too few for you to put off buying them. Because once they are gone, they are GONE, forever, no more printings. The same thing happened with Volume 1 last year, and woeful is the weeping of the people who procrastinated buying a copy.

The easiest method: Go to Paypal and send $5 to Eric@EricDSnider.com. Be sure to include your mailing address, and put “BOOK” somewhere so I know what you’re buying.

You can also mail $5 to:

Eric D. Snider
225 W. Broadway #A-311
Salt Lake City, UT 84101

Thank you, and happy buying!

Sincerely,
Eric

P.S. For details on what the book contains, visit this page.