Imaginary Real People
If you’re setting a work in some sort of fictional past, you often have to…
The Cast and Characters Are What Really Make Terminator: Dark Fate A Delightful Surprise
Here we go again. A robot has traveled back in time to kill a person…
Burton Begins: The Strange Dream of HANSEL AND GRETEL
It’s the stuff of urban legend. A deeply disturbing, ultra-low-budget version of Hansel and Gretel…
Film on the Internet: EVER AFTER
Ever After is one of the films I might nominate for Gillianren’s Women’s Canon. It’s…
Taco Break: Netflix’s $100 Million Slogs
“Netflix bloat” is now a standard terminology thrown around in pop culture criticism as easily…
Stuff My Kids Watch: Staying Strong With MIGHTY LITTLE BHEEM
I feel like I’m ahead of the curve on this one—I haven’t seen much of…
Flashback Comics Rack: Highlights of March 1982
New on DVD and Blu-Ray
Jesus, what a dire week. Kino are just about the only ones putting in the…
Flashback Comics Rack: Highlights of February 1982
And Then I Woke Up: Twin Peaks
This essay has references to rape, incest, and pedophilia. Needless to say, it also has…