Review
Ghostbusters: Afterlife: Fifty-Percent Good
Ghostbusters: Afterlife has several excellent moments, a great protagonist, and a heartfelt core, yet is underwhelming in a lot of… Read More
Turning Red: Pixar Succeeds Again
My reviewing of Turning Red has to, by the sheer presence of its theming, contain caveats. It’s a movie that… Read More
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark: Nostalgic, Thematically Overstuffed Horror
Given recent movie adaptation trends, Scary Stories to Tell in The Dark has a lot of comparisons. Even attempting to… Read More
Encanto: The Best New Disney Movie
Encanto is peak cinema. That’s a hot take, but it’s hard to argue against a movie made with this level… Read More
The House: Unsettling And Confusing
The House is an interpretive art piece. The creators had a point to make, and a message to send—but I’ve… Read More
The Wheel of Time: Mostly Underwhelming
Watching The Wheel of Time is a real-time game of deciding whether the show will do something cool, or rote… Read More
The Hollow Places: Breezy Lovecraftian Horror
I’d not read anything by T. Kingfisher before this novel, but given the grace of the prose, The Hollow Places… Read More
Circle: An Unfocused Death Game Movie
To call Circle an intense film is to undersell it. Utilizing almost only a single location, this death game story… Read More
Harrow Lake: A Metaphor That Looks Like A Horror Novel
Calling Harrow Lake a disappointment is perhaps too strong a phrase, but the book does fail to deliver in a… Read More
Horrid Review: The Horrors Of Extreme Feelings
Horrid is a book about emotions more than anything else. Its plot, its ending, its momentum are all in service… Read More
Why I Didn’t Watch Trese Episode 2
Trese has an awful first episode. It’s such an underwhelming piece of animated storytelling in almost every regard. I’m probably… Read More
The Ghost And Molly McGee First Impression: An Absolute Delight
For better and not for the worst, The Ghost and Molly McGee is basically what you’d expect it to be.… Read More