• Black Sheep: Trapped Into Making Friends With Monsters

    How does the saying go? “The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist.” In the same spirit of trickery, some would have you believe, of racism, not that it doesn’t exist, but that it is this one thing, and one thing alone – a self-explanatory concept of sorts, that…

  • Sex Education: Every Day is a School Day

    It has been a month since the Netflix release of Sex Education, a show dedicated to discussing all things sexually awkward. The flood of discussions, reviews, memes, and hashtags arising tell many stories. People are in love and it is not hard to see why. The show celebrates difference in sexuality, otherness, and knowing yourself….

  • The (Other) iTunes $0.99 Movie of the Week: ‘Support the Girls’

    Every week, the folks at iTunes find a movie they like and make it available to rent for the low, low price of $0.99. I’m here to tell you whether that film is worth your hard-earned dollar. Ok, the featured $0.99 movie this week is a little action thriller called Mile 22. You probably saw the…

  • The Week in Geek Entertainment News 2/8/2019 – Links

    All the important geek news from this week rounded up in one place. Last week it was Oscar Isaac. Now they’ve cast Javier Bardem in Dune. Dune, chill. We get it. It’s going to be goooooood. –Nerd Much The newest trailer for Tim Burton’s Dumbo: Guillermo del Toro’s Scary Stories dropped a trailer. Anyone else’s…

  • ‘Pet Sematary’ Comes Back, But It’s Not the Same in Latest Trailer

    I have watched the newest Pet Sematary trailer three times in the past two hours. I don’t know if that is a healthy number of times to watch a trailer, but I choose not to delve too deeply into the psychological implications of my compulsive re-watches. It’s legitimately great, which I’m going to count as…

  • The Truth About ‘True Detective’ Season 3

    Let us address first the peculiarity of jumping into episodic reviews, five episodes into True Detective, season three, and then speak no more of it. I recognize that it is an odd and perhaps jarring decision, but to be fair, True Detective is an odd and often jarring show. Time’s a flat circle, so let’s…

  • On ‘Wayne’ (And How YouTube Has Come A Long Way From Cat Videos)

    Created by Shawn Simmons, Wayne is a new web series, which premiered January 16 on YouTube Premium. This streaming subscription service (formerly YouTube Red, but rebranded YouTube Premium as of May of last year), started offering exclusive original content about two years ago in an effort to compete with sites like Netflix and Hulu, and…

  • ‘How to Get Away With Murder’ Shows Us How Devastating Guilt Can Be

    At the risk of overstating the obvious, HTGAWM is all about how to cover your tracks when you’ve committed a crime. It’s right there in the title. Almost everyone on the show has done one or more horrible things over the years, but between Annalise’s epic legal skills, incompetent law enforcement, blatant dishonesty, and sheer…

  • February Movie Preview: Date Night Animation

    As Valentine’s Day comes around, it’s the perfect opportunity to go out to dinner and then hit the theater with that special someone. What are you going to see? Well the two biggest February movies on the docket are animated titles directed toward children. There are some other releases that could fit your big date night….

  • The Week in Geek Entertainment News 2/1/2019 – Links

    All the important geek news from this week rounded up in one place. Zack Snyder is going to direct and produce Army of the Dead for Netflix. –Variety We get a closer look at the cast of Birds of Prey in a new teaser: Oscar Isaac joins Dune reboot. –NerdMuch The trailer for HANNA, which…

  • The (Other) iTunes $0.99 Movie of the Week: ‘Like Me’

    Every week, the folks at iTunes find a movie they like and make it available to rent for the low, low price of $0.99. I’m here to tell you whether that film is worth your hard-earned dollar. Ok, the featured $0.99 pick this week is the brutal, 2018 action/adventure tale of a boy and his…

  • ‘Gotham’ Reminds Us That Women Don’t Need Superheroes to Rescue Them

    If you’ve been following along, you’ve probably noticed that this last stretch of Gotham episodes has been pretty solid thus far (at least by Gotham standards). And while this week’s installment is a bit slower than the previous couple (only one near-explosion), it’s still not a bad hour of television. It sets the table nicely…