5 life lessons from Full Moon Features
You know, the month of May started out pretty strong. It’s spring, temps are getting high again, the sun’s out. We already know the world is a hellscape, but it seemed to have pause for a bit....
Author: E. Young
E. Young is a small town country author of horror and sci-fi works. Strives to cultivate a general sense unease and wholesome pop culture references. Owns a multitude of cats and probably wants to talk to you about a movie or music from a band you've never heard of. Can also be found at Bright Nightmares or on the Twitter machine @xenoxands.
Detective Pikachu had so much going for it. Then the ableism showed up.
Alright, has everyone seen the painfully adorable yet surprisingly deep Detective Pikachu yet? Good, let's talk about how terrifyingly messed up it is in terms of disability… with some light...
Professional wrestling as an unexpected piece of progress
Well my fellow backsliders, the time is now to dropkick into the wrasslin’ scene now that we’re post Wrestlemania season – wait, did you say it’s May? We’ve been post-’Mania for almost a...
Can Killing Eve still upend bisexual tropes?
So, overall I loved Killing Eve’s first season but I had to admit I was left a little meh and underwhelmed by its embracing the “psycho lesbian” trope without any real commentary. Which sucks,...
Us is a stellar entry in the hood horror art form
So, you enjoyed Get Out but maybe that movie centered whiteness a little too much for you. Maybe you found it a little too neat and on the nose after the fact. Well, I’m happy to announce that Us...
Leprechaun Returns is a true return to form
Another St. Patrick’s Day has come and gone and hopefully the throngs of green-attired tourists in your town have gone back home & to work in the morning. What was Horror Movie Twitter doing on...
Juanita demonstrates all the best parts of what Netflix can be
Like Napster back in the day, streaming (and pirating) has been allegedly killing the film business for a decade plus. It’s actually not, but that’s the latest thing for us to shake our fists at...
4 Black takes better than the white originals
Time to call it a wrap on Black History Month (until June, in which we celebrate Black Music) with something else different yet again: the black versions! There has always been a mainstream (read:...
Orfeu negro stunningly mixes Greek myth and Afro-Brazilian religion
Well, if your Black History (Awareness) Month hasn’t been poppin’ so far, maybe you need a little bossa nova. I want to widen the scope a little outside of America and take in one of my favorite...
The spies who came in from the cold: Bingeable spy TV to watch right now
I can’t think of a more perfect genre than spy thrillers to immerse myself in for the winter. Time to come in from the cold, in every sense of the term! Spy films are a bit of a personal cult...