The Chosen, Chapter 7

CHAPTER 7: Four Years Ago… Dwight Quinn was reluctant to meet his lifetime best friend, Beau Grant. Even if they had arranged to get together at their favorite bar—Mulligan’s Green, the sports-themed watering hole where they’d been going ever since they turned twenty-one during their days at the University of Houston—nothing felt like it used to be now.  They had spent the first thirty-seven years … Continue reading The Chosen, Chapter 7

Wait, Xander AND Willow Are The Worst? A BTVS Retrospective, S3, E5-6

FOR PREVIOUS BUFFY REVIEWS, CLICK HERE! It’s off to SunnyDale High School where we start this episode with our main characters sitting around talking about Homecoming. So you know what that means! It’s still way too early in the year for sunset to be 5:30, god damn it! (Unless Homecoming is in January or something) Scott has not asked Buffy to Homecoming yet, setting up … Continue reading Wait, Xander AND Willow Are The Worst? A BTVS Retrospective, S3, E5-6

Stan Lee (DisneyPlus) Review

As I sit here in the basement of my house where I do most of my writing, movie watching, gaming, and… everything I guess… (Don’t judge; it’s cooler down here, and my wife and I have very differing ideas on how warm a house needs to be) …I realize I am surrounded by comics and comic memorabilia. Art prints on the wall behind me. Framed … Continue reading Stan Lee (DisneyPlus) Review

Brooklyn 45 Review

NOTE: This article will contain light spoilers for Brooklyn 45 It has been a somewhat rough year for Shudder exclusives/originals. To this point in the year, I only have two of their movies ranking even somewhat highly for me on my 2023 New Releases ranking. There is, of course, Skinamarink, which I reviewed a few months ago. And then there is the batshit crazy Spoonful … Continue reading Brooklyn 45 Review

MONSTER FIGHTS! A BTVS Retrospective, S3, E3-4

FOR PREVIOUS BUFFY REVIEWS, CLICK HERE! Moving along through season three of Buffy The Vampire Slayer, we start off episode three with Willow, Oz, Cordelia, and Xander all heading out of school and discussing how, as seniors, they finally get to have lunch off-campus. Where is off campus? In the yard of the school. So there you go, I guess. Anyway, Buffy has set up … Continue reading MONSTER FIGHTS! A BTVS Retrospective, S3, E3-4

Komi Can’t Communicate Volume 6

Oh man, here we go with Volume 6 of Komi Can’t Communicate, the single most interesting volume to me because it was the one that was seemingly out of print or something FOREVER. It is the reason my initial read through of this series got held up. It took me months to find this one anywhere, even online. When I walked into Barnes & Noble … Continue reading Komi Can’t Communicate Volume 6

It’s Pet Sematary Now: A BTVS Retrospective, S3 E1-2

FOR PREVIOUS BUFFY REVIEWS, CLICK HERE! Season three starts off with the gang attempting to pick up an M.I.A. Buffy’s slack by hunting vampires, but… they are not particularly good at it. They are good enough to not die! But not to actually defeat any bloodsuckers. Their dialogue alerts us to the fact that school starts back up tomorrow. Buffy’s been gone all summer! Didn’t … Continue reading It’s Pet Sematary Now: A BTVS Retrospective, S3 E1-2

The Boogeyman Review

NOTE: This article will contain some light spoiler material for The Boogeyman Based on an older short story by Stephen King! Actually, the way this flick was first advertised, I thought this was maybe a new plot from Stephen King–I was sure he was not the screenwriter–but upon further research, it is actually based on a previous work of his, published in Night Shift way … Continue reading The Boogeyman Review