Reviews

Slither is the kind of movie that doesn’t try to choose between horror and comedy. It commits fully to both. The result is something messy, weird, and surprisingly fun. Released before director James Gunn became widely known for big superhero films, Slither feels like a filmmaker cutting loose. It’s relatively …

It’s the weekend of April Fool’s Day, 1986 and your friend, Muffy, invites you to a party she’s throwing on a remote island along with a group of your closest college buddies. Aren’t you just dying to go? Such is the premise for the 1986 ‘slasher’ film April Fool’s Day. …

Kirsten Kaschock’s An Impossibility of Crows is a dark genre-blending novel that combines elements of gothic literature, psychological horror, and literary fiction. Published by the University of Massachusetts Press and part of the Juniper Prize for Fiction series. The novel explores themes of motherhood, obsession, generational trauma, and the uneasy …

As a fan of low/no budget indie horror, I always look forward to seeing what these hometown auteurs come up with using their, often meager, means. When the studios start re-hashing literally everything, it’s usually in the indie folks that bring both the originality and the heat. I’m of the …

Corey Feldman vs. the World is the kind of documentary that feels almost destined to divide its audience before it even begins. On one hand, it presents itself as a deeply personal account of Corey Feldman’s life, struggles, and long-standing claims about abuse in Hollywood. On the other, it often …

Documentary Troublemaker – Antoine Fuqua gives us an emotionally turbulent but honest look over the life of Nelson Mandela. The film was helped by beautiful interstitial art and truthful reflections on Mandela’s life. For fellow Americans like myself, our schooling system did not teach us much about Apartheid, so this …

I have honestly been scouring streaming apps and was lucky to find The Man In The White Van. Although it didn’t sound interesting at first, I let my judgment go wild, and it didn’t let me down. The story is creepy enough, being filmed in the dark, in a remote …

Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice arrived with enormous expectations and just as much baggage. Behind the scenes, it was a film caught between bold creative ambition and a studio unsure how far it was willing to go. In hindsight, that tension is baked into every frame. It’s a movie …

Two minutes after completing the final, captivatingly dramatic pages of Then We’ll Be Safe the new  psychological thriller by award winning author Jes Hart Stone, I’m left with, not just goosebumps, but a feeling only too familiar to the stories teenage fugitive leads – I WANT MORE! Such is the …

Ever since Kindergarten, I was always the weird one and the best target that didn’t fight back. Even switching schools never worked; I was thrown out of all of them. I’m pretty proud of that as an adult.  Although that was over 30 years ago, it’s still my lifestyle, only …