The Storage Papers Will Frighten Even Horror Fans Before listening to The Storage Papers, I never thought a podcast could scare me as much as The Magnus Archives. That the mind-melting, the dark-is-dangerous thrill it gave me was the peak of horror storytelling. But The Storage Papers is not only just as scary, but it… Read More »
No Way Home Sets Up An Insane Marvel Precedent Spider-Man: No Way Home is the type of movie that could only exist in this new media environment. The draw is the spectacle of connecting reboots and pulling in actors to reprise long-gone roles. It has the same appeal as a Doctor Who special or those… Read More »
Ghostbusters: Afterlife Does Not Quite Come Alive Ghostbusters: Afterlife has several excellent moments, a great protagonist, and a heartfelt core, yet is underwhelming in a lot of ways. Those who watch it will remember it mainly for its fan service, and though that’s kind of the point—it’s not great we have a lot of movies… Read More »
Scary Stories Seems To Be Part Of A Media Trend Given recent movie adaptation trends, Scary Stories to Tell in The Dark has a lot of comparisons. Even attempting to evaluate it outside of context is semi-impossible because of its similarities. I’d call it a mash-up of Fear Street and the first Goosebumps movie, but… Read More »
Encanto Is Devastatingly Beautiful and So Heartfelt Encanto is peak cinema. That’s a hot take, but it’s hard to argue against a movie made with this level of care, skill, and storytelling effort. Top to bottom, moment to moment, I’ve not seen a movie this holistically perfect in a long time. Now, that last comment… Read More »
The House Has Heavy Commentary On Something The House is an interpretive art piece. The creators had a point to make, and a message to send—but I’ve yet to figure out what that message was. It was like being screamed at in a foreign language you almost know well enough to understand. This level of… Read More »
The Wheel of Time Doesn’t Impress Nearly Enough Watching The Wheel of Time is a real-time game of deciding whether the show will do something cool, or rote and overplayed. The series ping-pongs between these two modes with such regularity it’s almost baffling. But before we go into that, I must address something: I haven’t… Read More »
The Hollow Places Sucks You Into Its Twisted Tale Easily I’d not read anything by T. Kingfisher before this novel, but given the grace of the prose, The Hollow Places will not be the last. She’s shown her sureness within both this subgenre and in the art of simply telling a good story. And, for… Read More »
With Spider-Man 3 playing on mute in my hotel room, it was apt that Flair & Lynch stepped out like a pair of supervillains to set off Survivor Series with a grudge match that was not as technical as the match-ups that they have had in the past. This was ugly, with the competitors hitting… Read More »
Circle Uses An Extremely Simple But Clever Plot To call Circle an intense film is to undersell it. Utilizing almost only a single location, this death game story touches upon politics, human nature, mercy, and bigotry. It uses a very simple premise and plays it straight and is one of the best-paced films I’ve seen… Read More »