With two successful and fascinating issues delivered, we find ourselves in the last half of the series. Our story is coming to a close, but what...
The Devils (1971) is a historical drama and horror film based loosely on the ‘possessions’ at a French monastery in 1634. After Mother Superior Jeanne de...
The Noonday Witch (known as Polednice in its original Czech title) is a beautifully bright and quiet folk horror film. Directed by Jiří Sádek and written by Michal Samir (II), the story follows...
We return to the second installment of the now-completed Count Crowley saga, but we’re going to continue to review each issue individually. How does the production...
The Lighter Side of Dark… I’m not sure what it was about January 2020 that made it feel so dark. Perhaps it’s the excessive reports of...
Bong Joon-ho (Snowpiercer, Okja) writes and directs Parasite (2019), a darkly comic thriller. Bong and screenplay co-writer Han Jin-won explore the intersection of those on opposite...
The Turning is the epitome of how January feels: cold, dreary, anticlimactic, endless. Since the film is loosely based on Henry James’ classic gothic tale, The...
The Discovery… So, picture a Wednesday night by yourself. You’re on the road and you don’t really have the energy to go out after your day...
We’re now two-issues deep into the John Constantine: Hellblazer-revamp. Does the second issue continue the strengths of the relaunch, or does the team find themselves getting...
In the fourth episode of Witcher, a lot of things became clear. This was an ‘aha!’ episode, where pieces clicked together with a satisfying snap. Some...
By the release of Penny Dreadful: City of Angels on April 26th it will be almost four years since the end of the first series. I’m...
Written and directed by Nicolas Pesce, The Grudge (2020) is a reboot of the 2004 film of the same name, which itself was a remake of...
In 2019, German writer and filmmaker Rudolph Herzog stepped into the world of fiction with Ghosts of Berlin, a quirky collection of seven short ghost stories. Translated...
Starting this episode, I had two questions. One, is every episode going to be longer than the last? And two, why does Geralt have to pay...
Episode two of Netflix’s The Witcher brought us a new main character and added to an already confusing timeline. We start with the introduction of Yennifer,...
If anybody has mastered the art of building tension in storytelling, it’s Samanta Schweblin. In 2014, she published her novella Distancia de rescate. In 2017 Megan McDowell...
The story… “La Noria” is an animated horror short about a boy trying to complete a gift from his father. As the film starts, an image...
For the next few weeks, I’ll be reviewing the new Netflix series, Witcher, episode by episode. It’s all available right now if you want to binge...
In essence, Killadelphia #1 is a new vampire horror series published by Image Comics set in a vampire-infested Philadelphia. To be more accurate, however, the full...
The second film of Red Christmas was the gloriously insane Jack Frost; and no, it’s not the Michael Keaton snow-dad movie. The movie is absolutely wacky...