Review: Pet Sematary

Review: Pet Sematary

Church the cat Pet Sematary is probably Stephen King’s most notorious novel, famed for its dark and disturbing subject matter—especially child death— and its power to scare.  The 1989 film, scripted by King and directed by Mary Lambert, was fairly trashy but...
Review: Shazam! sparks with youthful, infectious electricity

Review: Shazam! sparks with youthful, infectious electricity

Let’s be honest, most of us geeks have had this fantasy before. As kids, we were fascinated by superheroes to the point that we would try to emulate them. Hopefully, it didn’t get to the point of trying to fly from the roof of your garage as I did. My arch nemesis was...
Us – Review

Us – Review

Lupita Nyong’o, Evan Alex, Shahadi Wright Joseph, and Winston Duke in Us Us opened last weekend to a mammoth $70.2 million, becoming the highest opening original horror movie and biggest ever opening for a film with a black female lead.  What’s more, ...
Kickstarter We’re Into: Masked Prejudice

Kickstarter We’re Into: Masked Prejudice

“You’d be a better superhero if only you smiled more.” How many of us cringed when Captain Marvel was told by that biker to smile more in her titular film? (And how many of us cheered when she got back at that biker?) Prejudice and hate take all...
Monster-Mania Con 42 report

Monster-Mania Con 42 report

The author and Rachel True “I’m just saying if you’re gonna have three out of the witches, you need four, don’tcha?” actress Rachel True asked, referring to the controversy that erupted when she went public about an unnamed convention inviting all three female leads...
Someone Tell JK Rowling to Stop

Someone Tell JK Rowling to Stop

The weird ‘facts’ JK Rowling has shared has turned into a fairly hilarious meme describing all of the ‘new information’ JK Rowling has bestowed about Harry Potter characters as well as other fandoms. It’s inception has come from the Harry Potter author divulging...