by admin | Jan 29, 2024 | What's Worth Watching
Jon Hamm has been doing some very cool stuff for the last couple of years — and the smart, sweet, funny Maggie Moore(s) is a perfect example. This tight, quiet, smart little mystery/comedy/thriller has been knocking around for a few months, but it’s just been...
by admin | Jan 26, 2024 | Listen Up
There are plenty, plenty of horror podcasts out there, good and bad and mostly boring – especially boring for people who have been watching and reading horror for a long time. In most cases, jaded old horror fans will come to feel as if they’re waiting for the hosts...
by admin | Jan 25, 2024 | What's Worth Watching
You know … competition is a whole different thing in Great Britain. I mean, sports, yes – your soccer, your rugby, your Olympic events – in sports, the British are so competitive they’re downright dangerous. But when it comes to … what would you call it? Recreational...
by admin | Jan 18, 2024 | What's Worth Watching
I know – God, we all know — that Rebel Moon was supposed to be big, I mean big, for Zack Snyder. His break away from superhero movies that he now professes to be tired of, his chance to show his real vision. Yeah, about that. From where I was sitting, it took...
by admin | Jan 17, 2024 | What's Worth Watching
You know, I really hadn’t planned on talking about The Curse … not until I saw the last episode and now, I … I have to… I mean … what the hell? You know, I’ve never been a big fan of the ‘comedy of discomfort,” all the way back to Andy Kaufman and for that matter Don...
by admin | Jan 16, 2024 | What's Worth Watching
Marvel’s Echo, available on Disney+ and Hulu, is a major re-telling of a B-List Daredevil character, in a disorganized, risky and ultimately admirable but not completely successful attempt at telling a ‘deeper’ story despite the superhero genre. It’s far from...
by admin | Jan 15, 2024 | Reading Matters
Nat Cassidy’s Mary is basically the story of Carrie suffering through a very bloody version of menopause – among so many other things. In the beginning, Mary herself looks like a singularly uninteresting woman: quiet, middle-aged unassuming, working in the basement of...
by admin | Jan 7, 2024 | News of the Weird
Musical zombies? Really. No kidding: it’s not quite as rare as you’d think. Strangely enough, zombie music spans the decades, including two features, at least one theme song and an Off-Broadway show. One thing that’s been pointed out a million times is the reallly...
by admin | Jan 4, 2024 | What's Worth Watching
School Spirits, a supernatural teen-drama mini-series in nine parts on Netflix by way of Paramount Plus, tells an engaging story about a plucky, troubled high school senior who suddenly has to deal with the fact that she’s … well, dead. And worse than just dead:...
by admin | Nov 29, 2022 | Reading Matters
Yeah, it’s that simple: Joe Abercrombie is one of the best writers of gritty, realistic fantasy working today. His only flaw is that there isn’t enough of him. Abercrombie has created a number of interlocking series set in a world of barbarian nations,...
