For every Donald Glover who excels at acting and comedy and music and just about everything they do, there’re dozens of other celebrities who get famous working in one medium, then end up making complete asses of themselves when they […]
As per most people’s assumptions, Amazon’s completely destroying brick and mortar retail and once-bustling malls across the country are being replaced by potential locations for really awesome horror movies. Like most other aging millennials, I’ve got fond memories of loading the pockets of […]
Love And Saucers | 2017 | Documentary | Dir. Brad Abrahams | 4/5 The debut feature-length from director Brad Abrahams never strives for titillation or shock value, and seems perfectly content to focus squarely on an unglamorous, but entirely pleasant, […]
The following touches upon the final scenes of Stranger Things 2, as well as a handful of major story points. So, y’know, consider this a Shadow Monster-sized SPOILER ALERT. Objectively, there’s not a ton wrong with Stranger Things 2. It’s much […]
Batman’s world has turned into a platform for showcasing museum-worthy works of art during the past year, and that’s at least a little unusual for mainstream superheroes in these modern times. Nowadays, writers become niche-market rock stars while artists rightfully complain […]
For a promoter of retro-cool movies, it makes sense to talk up the setting and soundtrack of Richard Kelly’s debut and most acclaimed feature, Donnie Darko. Like genre touchstones of the moment Stranger Things and IT, Donnie Darko unfolds in a […]
Revenge movies have a tendency to end up looking stupid. I certainly don’t need to tell you that there’re oodles upon oodles of action flicks featuring a strapping, alpha male badass sorta dude (and it’s usually a dude) who hunts […]
Utter the phrase “shared universe” anywhere near a desperate Hollywood executive nowadays, and they’ll instantly abandon their grasp on judgement and reason in a fit of greed-crazed madness. How else do we explain how a Universal Studios monster universe that […]
*SPOILERS AHEAD….obviously* Diane, 8:00 p.m., September third. Watching the finale of Twin Peaks, twenty-five years after the first one, twenty-five years until the next one. I’ve never seen so many memes in my life. Twin Peaks: The Return is nothing short […]
Knowing The Defenders — the formal combination of Netflix’s quartet of Marvel superheroes into a crime-bustin’ sorta-team — would take the form of a mystical ninja-related story overseen by Daredevil season two showrunners Douglas Petrie and Marco Ramirez, I expected […]