Review
The Twisted Ones: Slow-Burn Nightmare
I wish I had more nice things to say about The Twisted Ones. Given how impressed I was with The… Read More
The Hollow: Mystery Over Cohesion
The Hollow is a decent enough show mired by gimmick issues. The biggest one is its reliance on the “Mystery… Read More
The Storage Papers: As Scary As The Magnus Archives?
Before listening to The Storage Papers, I never thought a podcast could scare me as much as The Magnus Archives.… Read More
Spider-Man: No Way Home: Powerful But Gimmicky
Spider-Man: No Way Home is the type of movie that could only exist in this new media environment. The draw… Read More
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