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.
You know when a Big Name critic declares a scene dead and shyly kicks dust over it? That kind of talk comes from the mouths of the dominant class—usually white, usually male—after they’ve...
In December of 2017, I had an opportunity to review Welcome Home, a collection of short stories centered on adoption edited by Eric Smith. The stories collected here represent such a wide spectrum of...
The infamous Universal FanCon is in the books, but the event is not going down in history as the co-founders had hoped. As can be gleamed from the hashtags and social media chatter, the event...
If you've seen a few more mentions of banned piledrivers, extravagant entrances, and people going through Spanish tables during Spring Break on your social media feeds lately, you might be aware that...
Speaking of resurrections, let's talk about funerals in media. Admittedly, this isn't something that's on my mind constantly. It wasn't really until I started catching up on SyFy's latest original...
Often, when people discuss “unconventional beauty”, they're discussing unpopular features like, say, close set eyes or big noses. The problem usually goes a bit deeper than that, though. I don't...
It's springtime and you know what that means... Bible movie epics! I love the Old Hollywood epic film in general. Bloated production schedules, enough money sunk into costumes and set pieces to...
For this Black History Month, allow me to entice you away from repeated marathons of Roots, Queenie, and Get Out into the lurid world of blaxploitation. Growing up in a very pro-black household...
Flip or Flop: Nashville premiered on HGTV on January 18. I would know, I was there. Rather, I was invited to a swanky premier party for it. In a Mercedes-Benz parking lot. The appetizers included hot...
You know who needs black superheroes? Black people. I know, it's terribly obvious. People of color are the ones that need positive representation of us the most. That should be obvious but there is...
