Category: Arts & Entertainment
Tuesday Tune Two-Fer: You Have To Believe We Are Magic
I’ll tell you this week’s two tangentially-related tunes as long as you say the magic word
Literacy 2025: Book 24: Hidden Pictures
Jason Rekulak’s thriller about a young woman hired as nanny to a bright child whose drawings reveal a dark presence hiding in the house
One Thing I Like About Drive-Away Dolls
Drive-Away Dolls has so many of the components of a good movie
One Thing I Like About K-Pop Demon Hunters
I never expected this movie to treat the question “am I in the target audience?” as completely irrelevant
Literacy 2025: Book 23: Heads Will Roll
Josh Winning’s slasher novel about a camp for a celebrity who’s in danger of being canceled… PERMANENTLY
Movie List Monday: Oh, So That’s Why We Have Movies
A list of movies with scenes that taught me why the medium exists in the first place
One Thing I Like About Weapons
Weapons is so ingeniously structured and so confident in its tone that it feels like something genuinely new. (Spoilers)
Tuesday Tune Two-Fer: Happier Together
Two tunes that might be appropriate replacement songs for the movie Together, should the need arise
Space Bullies Aren’t Cool (One Thing I Like About Predator: Killer of Killers)
Predator: Killer of Killers is a beautifully-animated action movie that challenges my basic sense of media literacy. (Minor spoilers)
One Thing I Like About Together
The body-horror-as-metaphor-for-codependency movie Together isn’t as bonkers as I’d hoped, but it does some fantastic stuff with familiar horror movie moments
Lost in the Kayfabe
A video about horror in professional wrestling is like peeking into a whole other culture I know nothing about, but suspect that they might have it all figured out better than I have
