Sometimes a book reaches into your heart and fills a hole you didn’t know was there. That was my experience with Whalefall, Daniel Kraus’ award-winning 2023 novel. I was initially drawn to an unbelievable story of survival horror but wound up finding comfort in a surprisingly cathartic tale of...

What is the purpose of comedy? What is the purpose of documentary film? And I guess while we’re going down this philosophical road, what is the purpose of human existence and is objective reality actually real? Nathan Fielder has built a career on answering these nebulous questions. Or perhaps...

Depending on your taste in horror, the title of this review will either be a warning against or an invitation to see Eli Roth’s latest directorial outing, Ice Cream Man. In this long-awaited reboot to the 1995 cult classic, Ari Millen stars as a maniacal purveyor of summery treats...

Before you @ me, yes, I know Homer’s Odyssey is about ancient Greeks, not Romans. But considering the hyper-masculenity epitomized by Trojan soldiers, it’s worth considering the shock women felt when we realized how much time men spend thinking about this particular era. On the surface, Christopher Nolan’s The...

We’ve all seen our fair share of possession movies. Most reach for the perfection of William Friedkin’s 1973 masterpiece The Exorcist and center a helpless girl whose body becomes host to a demonic entity. Family members desperately convince skeptical priests to combat the demon leading to a dangerous ritual...

The 1992 masterpiece Bram Stoker’s Dracula is not only a gorgeous and haunting love story, it contains one of the most romantic lines in the history of horror. After locating his reincarnated bride, Count Dracula (Gary Oldman) confesses, “I have crossed oceans of time to find you.” Luc Besson’s...

Anyone in their right mind is at least a little bit nervous about Artificial Intelligence. What seemed like a distant threat with the 1991 premiere of Terminator 2:Judgment Day suddenly feels frighteningly real with the introduction of Chat GPT and increasing use of self-driving cars. Rather than solve complex...

It’s hard to resist singing along with the Backstreet Boys’ #1 hit “I Want It That Way.” Regardless of your feelings about pop music in general, when that tender guitar intro starts playing, we stop what we’re doing, turn to the person next to us, and tunefully insist that,...

I’m a simple girl. As Christmas nears, all I want is a cute boy dressed in a Santa suit axing through the naughty. That’s why I love the original Silent Night, Deadly Night. Charles E. Sellier Jr. ‘s 1984 film follows a little boy named Billy (Jonathan Best, Danny...

Was there ever a possibility that I would not enjoy Wicked: For Good? Probably not. I’ve been obsessed with the musical soundtrack since its release in the aughts and finally got a chance to see the stage production a few years after that. Elphaba Throp entered my life at...