by admin | Feb 20, 2024 | What's Worth Watching
Here’s an idea that should never have worked. Yet it’s one of the most popular shows in the UK … Choose about a dozen absolutely normal people out there – couples or families, married folks or siblings or best friends – and you don’t bring them into...
by admin | Feb 16, 2024 | What's Worth Watching
YouTube has become too huge to truly comprehend, and most of the ‘tubers that built their base from YT have either moved on, retreated, or sunk into scandal. But once in a while you stumble overcome with long-form content that is charming and insightful about...
by admin | Feb 8, 2024 | Reading Matters
I just finished Jenny Kiefer’s This Wretched Valley, by first-time novelist Jenny Kiefer … and I almost liked it. But there was something missing… and I wonder if anyone else felt it, too. You remember the podcast, Talking Scared, that I reviewed a while back? They...
by admin | Feb 7, 2024 | News of the Weird
Here, come on down the rabbit hole with me. I went looking for some background on Henry Thomas for a review of The Fall of the House of Usher… and found an entirely different little gem: a very short, very special sequel to E.T.: The Extraterrestrial, posing as an...
by admin | Jan 30, 2024 | News of the Weird
Let’s face it: all the entertainment awards shows, from the Oscars and the Emmies to the execrable Golden Globes are a terrible mess. Such a mess, in fact, the only decision might be simply to burn them all down and start over. I’m not usually an extreme kind of guy....
