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DOWN CEMETERY ROAD SERIES REVIEW Nothing rebuilds and keeps the foundations of friendships solid like a good old fashion dinner party. Want to impress your spouse, wow your boss, and boost the morale of your community? Dinner party!! Nothing ruins a dinner party quite like a bomb going off, though. We ain’t just talking a […]

RETURN TO SILENT HILL MOVIE REVIEW In 1999, Konami released a ‘flashlights in the fog’ horror game about a desolate town featuring puzzles, hidden secrets, nightmare fuel creature designs, and a surprising amount of heart within its character driven stories. With several games, remakes of those games, two feature films, and the weirdly long overdue […]

GOODBYE JUNE MOVIE REVIEW Kelly Barnhill once wrote “Death is always sudden, even when it isn’t”. Though all of us will eventually choose to go quietly into that good night or fight against the dying of the light, death will come for all of us, and for some of us that meeting with the Grim […]

HIS AND HERS SERIES REVIEW A lotta things can call us back to our childhood home town. Adoring parents. Cherished memories. A reunion of some kind. Even a homicide! Investigative journalist Ana Andrews (Tessa Thompson) returns to her childhood home when a close high school friend is found stabbed over a dozen times and left […]

THE MIGHTY NEIN SEASON 1 REVIEW Stranger Things, Critical Role, Vin Diesel on podcasts having hours of play time with friends and family, Henry Cavill with his Adonis looks and muscular glory geeking out with other players as he negotiates with Amazon to start a Warhammer series…Much like comic book storytelling in the early 2000’s, […]

PLUR1BUS SEASON 1 REVIEW From a single room in your house to the neighborhood grid of your city. All the way up to the panoramic satellite view of the state, then the country, up passed the atmosphere and finally the home we call Earth. The existence of life is both small and vast. What kind […]

THE ELEPHANT REVIEW According to legend, and a very quick google search, the very first animated story was by French artist Émile Cohl called Fantasmagorie back in 1908. It lasted a little over a minute and featured our protagonist trying to get rid of hats, a clown, and an elephant. Over a century later, a […]

NE ZHA 2 MOVIE REVIEW Ne Zha, the story of a rebellious and powerful child deity in Chinese mythology with origins in Buddhist lore, has been interpreted and adapted throughout the centuries through word of mouth, written folk lore, and like all the best myths, adapted to the silver screen. Therefore it is no surprise […]

INFLUENCERS MOVIE REVIEW Smash that like button and don’t forget to subscribe to that hashtag #MurderBeautifulPeopleOnVacation! Whether you follow on Instagram, Twitter rebrands, TikTok, or are over the hill and on Facebook, Influencers is that Gen X to Z killing spree goodness you need to close out your holiday shuffle as we all dance into […]

SMILING FRIENDS SEASON 3 REVIEW Smiling Friends returns on Adult Swim for a third season and it chronicles the employees of Smiling Friend Inc. and their never ending quest to chase the blues away and help you recognize the brighter days ahead. Smiling Friends employees Pim (Michael Cusack) and Charlie (Zach Hadel) are here to […]

ALL’S FAIR SERIES REVIEW RIta Rudner once said “Marriages don’t last. When I meet a guy, the first question I ask myself is: is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?”. Hulu presents a show about a law firm of ladies helping women turn those I Do’s into I don’t […]

OH. WHAT. FUN. MOVIE REVIEW One Christmas you’re bound in a homemade leather suit decapitating mannequins while eluding the detective skills of a millionaire with daddy issues while awakening your independence and empowering an audience of all ages to do the same in the face of an uncaring apathetic world. Meow! Then three decades later, […]

IT: WELCOME TO DERRY SERIES REVIEW Sister duo “Patience and Prudence” sang the cheerful tune A Smile and a Ribbon which said “A smile is something special, a ribbon is something rare. So I’ll be special and I’ll be rare with a smile and a ribbon in my hair.” Decades have passed since the ironically […]

COME SEE ME IN THE GOOD LIGHT MOVIE REVIEW Allen Ginsberg once said “Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It’s that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that’s what the poet does.” Andrea Gibson is a poet whose works include the acclaimed […]

UNDER THE STARS MOVIE REVIEW Regarding true love, I give you this quote from the pages of “A Wizard and Glass” by Stephen King. “True love, like any other strong and addicting drug, is boring—once the tale of encounter and discovery is told, kisses quickly grow stale and caresses tiresome…except, of course, to those who […]

THE ABANDONS SERIES REVIEW ‘The way of the gun’ crashes against the power of wealth while the law watches with a big bucket of popcorn in this Netflix series by The Shield and Sons of Anarchy creator Kurt Sutter, The Abandons. Fiona Nolan (Lena Headey) is a ruthless calculating homesteader who adopted several orphans to […]

JINGLE BELL HEIST MOVIE REVIEW Nice Christmas tree you got there with all that silver and gold on it. Be a shame if something happened to it. Jingle Bell Heist follows Sophia (Olivia Holt) who is all dressed up in red and green, and making cash at the Christmas department store adorned with Christmas trees […]

LEFT-HANDED GIRL MOVIE REVIEW Director Shih-Ching Tsou once said “I fell in love with my own city again. I spent 23 years of my life in Taipei. That’s home. That’s where my family is. I can never remove that from my brain or my body, and I notice every little detail of the city now. […]

THE LOWDOWN SERIES REVIEW Mark Twain once said “If you tell the truth, you won’t have to remember anything”. This great advice seems to go largely unobserved in the Oklahoma city of Tulsa in the FX series, The Lowdown. Lee Raybon (Ethan Hawke) is a bookstore owner that also happens to moonlight as a self […]

TRAIN DREAMS MOVIE REVIEW Denis Johnson once said “If you write fiction, you’re by yourself. There are certain advantages to that in that you don’t have to explain anything to anybody”. An adaptation of one of Johnson’s most cherished novellas is now streaming on Netflix, Train Dreams. Robert Grainier (Joel Edgerton) is a man living […]

BUNNY MOVIE REVIEW There are so many songs about New York from all kinds of artists. From crooners to rappers, the adulation of the big apple can be heard world wide, but the best kind of harmonies that make up the most memorable stories are from the voices of the communities within the city itself. […]

HAZBIN HOTEL SEASON 2 REVIEW Heaven’s extermination of Hell’s sinners in order to keep the sinner population below the numbers of the righteous has been thwarted by Charlie Morningstar (Erika Henningsen). Along with her girlfriend Vaggie (Stephanie Beatriz) she runs the Hazbin Hotel, a place sinners can go for redemption. Hell isn’t forever anymore after […]

CHAINSAW MAN – THE MOVIE: REZE ARC Tatsuki Fujimoto’s most hellish manga creation has rev’ed up from the the page, onto the tv screens, and moving onto the biggest screens of silver and into our hearts. We are talking about Chainsaw Man The Movie- Reze Arc directed by anime key artist and showrunning legend Tatsuya […]

THE PAPER SERIES REVIEW What are some things you can use the newspaper for? Paper mache for a float or some kind of school art project. Catching droppings at the bottom of your bird cage. A prop for a costume at halloween or a play. However it may surprise you to learn that in the […]

CHAD POWERS SERIES REVIEW Its the 4th quarter with the clock ticking and the game on the line in front of a sea of fans and that one person in the stands that matters more than anything. Lesser men would crumble under the pressure and the moment calls for a true hero. Unfortunately, that’s not […]