Author: Chuck


One Thing I Like About Opus
Opus undercuts its own messages about fame by casting a bunch of really talented people

It’s Tough to Be Replaced
A post in praise of one of the best theme park productions Disney’s ever made

One Thing I Like About Black Sunday
An entirely unacademic take on Mario Bava’s classic gothic horror


Falling into Booktube
Rediscovering the intersection of art and commerce and my own overly-romanticized images of being an author

Literacy 2025: Book 7: How to Solve Your Own Murder
A solid cozy murder mystery by Kristen Perrin about a paranoid elderly woman who provided all the clues to solve her own murder


I am a functional adult who totally understood Moxyland
A spoiler-filled dive back into Lauren Beukes’s Moxyland, to reassure myself that I got it

One Thing I Like About Mickey 17
The science fiction comedy about an expendable space colonist and his clones feels like a smarter and subtler movie is running just below the surface.

Literacy 2025: Book 6: Moxyland
Lauren Beukes’s “post-cyberpunk” thriller about a society that crushes people with class division and convenience











