movies/tv

Don’t Eat Crazy

Tom Paris, saying aloud the creed I live by, pretty much. And? This is my only persistent problem with intergalactic humans in stories: they always come out of warp at some Mos Eisley of a truckstop and just eat whatever’s being served. I can’t help but think that would be instant death. Not just of […]

Monster Covers

Stumbled onto this Vamp poster on Twitter, which got me thinking of The Howling novel cover, and now I’m just wishing there were covers as good for any version of The Mummy. There’s wonderful amazing stuff in places like this or this or this, but, man, for me, it’s when the art and the title combine

Best of 2018 — halfway through

Every year when I cobble together some best-of-the-year list from half-remembered this and that, I always end up remembering stuff from the last few months instead of the whole year, and feeling like that’s all unfair. So, in an effort to work around that, and trusting that I actually come back and LOOK at this in five months, but mostly because I’m just now thinking of it, here’s my favorites so far:

Comic Book:

Summer of 84

Man, just like with Ready Player One, Wolf in White Van, and a lot of others from the past . . . four, five years? this one’s also kind of “of my age group.” Meaning: I was twelve in 1984. So of course I’ll see this—I mean, I think I’d be there just for the

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Writers Say ‘Zombieland 2,’ With Original Cast, Aiming for 2019 Release!  

All my Jasons, Gather Round Me

For many of us out in the fansphere, this isn’t just the dream, this is the perfect nightmare. Which, yes, is kind of am empty statement. What I’m trying to say is: Could there possibly have been anything even halfway as cool as this? [Images] SIX Jason Actors Got Back into Their ‘Friday the 13th’

Thanos #spoiler

He’s Adrian Veidt with a cosmic version of the Redeker Plan, yeah? It’s a good build for a bad guy. I miss his old “I want to kill half the universe as a gift for Death, whom I love love love”-angle from the comics, but I think this version plays better. Or, it doesn’t have

1428 Elm Street

Well, across the street, really. Glen was probably 1427, 1429 if it was a packed street. With bigger lots, no telling. Either way, this is about as cool as it gets: Johnny Depp getting ready for a big scene in Nightmare on Elm Street pic.twitter.com/S7qfssh2Uf — Rare Horror (@RareHorror) April 24, 2018

A Quiet, Well-Lighted Place

The Shining is great and amazing and permanent and iconic and all that good stuff, of course, but one thing it has going for it that very, very few other stories ever get is that it instantly activates our imagination—immediately upon hearing the premise, we put ourselves in that situation of being winter caretaker for

Lost Highway!

Man, how I do love this movie. Was great, getting to talk about it with Rob King. Really? I could have gone on and on on . . . https://25yearslatersite.com/2018/03/14/interview-stephen-graham-jones-a-discussion-on-lost-highway-and-mapping-the-interior/

Jaws on the Water

Hey now, somebody may have just read the moneyshot chapter of a slasher novel I just wrote: http://www.delish.com/food-news/news/a58598/jaws-open-water-viewing-this-summer/

Ready Player One

This is kind of the music-only equivalent of Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny, yes?   Just got word that I can finally share my rejected theme song from @readyplayerone. They went with Alan Silvestri’s theme, but I still want to thank Steven Spielberg & @WarnerBrosEnt for the wonderful opportunity. pic.twitter.com/aK32ZOUA16 — demi adejuyigbe (@electrolemon) March

Psycho Cat

I think this will be only the second cat-related thing I’ve ever posted in all my internet years (before then, it was just leaving cat-related stuff on utility poles, I guess) (which I was a fiend for). The other is this Mapquest cat, whom I so completely identify with. This is maybe even cooler, though:

Annihilator!

Well, Annihilation. But I like saying it like a monster truck, or a wrestler. Just caught it at the cineplex. It’s a good time. Here’s some un-spoilerfree bullet points on/about it, since I don’t really have any kind of thesis to build a proper write-up around: the skull-faced anteater bear does what the bear did

Mick Garris’s Post Mortem

I dial up John Carpenter every chance I get. Whether he’s tolerating the person asking questions or not—and of course he’s good with Garris—there’s always something to learn:

Death of the Fanboy

Had this stranded in a tab for weeks, finally cued it up just now. Good stuff: http://nerdsthatgeek.com/blogs/the-death-of-the-fanboy 

Sherlock #13

Season 4, episode 3, “The Final Problem.” It’s up there with X-Files‘ 3.20 / “Jose Chung’s ‘From Outer Space,” now. So amazing. Five or six pics that I think sum it up:  

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