Strange World Is Clearly An Artistic Labor Of Love Strange World wears its influences on its sleeve, and it informs a ton of the movie’s pacing, sense of adventure, and how it approaches danger in any scene. It’s based on old-school pulp comics, novels, and radio plays—even as someone who didn’t grow up with that… Read More »
(This is one of the more evergreen articles I’ve written. I would change a few things about how I phrased stuff, but my point still stands. Between things like Knives Out and The Dark Harvest, I’ve seen my fair share of “original” media that hit all my points.) Just What Precisely Is Artistic Originality Anyway?… Read More »
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, may I have your attention, please?! You’ve been patient! You’ve been diligent! You’ve been loyal! Now, for demonstrating such tremendous qualities, such incredible attributes, such unbelievable resolve, you shall be rewarded! Friends, bloggers, Earthlings, lend me your ears! The time has come, yet again, for you to get your proper dose of excitement,… Read More »
The School for Good and Evil Has Lots To Like In It The School for Good and Evil is a fun fantasy movie with a surprising amount of narrative depth while also being goofy, self-indulgent, and occasionally seriously questionable. I’ll spend some time ragging on it, mostly for its botched train wreck of an ending,… Read More »
The Luminous Dead Needs A Certain Type Of Reader To Work The Luminous Dead is perhaps one of the hardest reviews I’ve done in a long time. The nature of the work has clashed with my usual operations. To explain, I need to give a little context to my work as a critic. My subjective… Read More »
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, may I have your attention, please?! You’ve been patient! You’ve been diligent! You’ve been loyal! Now, for demonstrating such tremendous qualities, such incredible attributes, such unbelievable resolve, you shall be rewarded! Friends, bloggers, Earthlings, lend me your ears! The time has come, yet again, for you to get your proper dose of excitement,… Read More »
Let’s Finish The Retrospective With Friday Fictions And we’re on to part three of the retrospective. The final part. We’re flipping the script back to positive and shifting topics slightly. It might be a little self-indulgent, but I can also review the media I’ve produced: Friday Fictions. If you’ve been mostly reading our reviews and… Read More »
Now it’s time for the negativity. The stuff I least enjoyed reviewing. I’ve sandwiched this part between two positive articles, so we don’t end this retrospective on a low note. Now, of course, media is mostly subjective, and sometimes I even warm up to stuff I gave a bad or lukewarm review to before. Stuff… Read More »
Let’s Take A Look Back At This Year’s New Articles I’ve written many articles this year and reviewed piles of movies, tons of shows, and even a few books. And while a lot of media flees my memory once I’m done reviewing it, a few things were so good and memorable that they’ve stuck with… Read More »
Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas, everyone! As the year gets closer and closer to its end, we have only a few articles and stories left to round out the year. And one of them is our traditional Christmas story! Brandon Scott has done his darnedest to make it cheerful and bright. He calls it “The… Read More »