Category: Film


  • The Parenting Proves a Great Cast Can Boost a Bad Movie

    Introducing your partner to your parents can be a nerve-wracking experience. Such is the case for The Parenting’s Rohan (Twisters’ Nik Dodani) and Josh (Hellraiser 2022’s Brandon Flynn), who have decided to whisk their polar opposite parents away to a cozy, isolated Airbnb in the woods to get to know each other as Rohan prepares to ask Josh…

  • Uncontained: An Unconventional Family Affair Zombie Film

    No one can resist a good zombie movie. When done right, these tales about feral monsters and animalistic impulses have ways of asserting more humanity than many of the thousands of films put out each year. Zombie movies have a rhythmic road map: outbreak, meet the survivors, attack, hard loss, grandiose overture, and aftermath. They’re…

  • Control Freak Will Make You Itch All Over

    Hulu has been growing their original horror content for a long time. For those of us who remember the premiere of Into the Dark in October 2018, horror fans eagerly anticipated monthly original movies from the streamer in collaboration with Blumhouse Television. I was heartbroken when it ended. As Into the Dark faded out, Hulu…

  • The Rule of Jenny Pen: Long May She Reign!

    John Lithgow is an American treasure, and if you disagree, we can never be friends. I grew up watching him as the loveable yet oafish head of an alien family on 3rd Rock From the Sun after countless rewatches of Harry and the Hendersons with my family. Back then, I would never have considered a…

  • Mystery at Blind Frog Ranch: The Mormon Wagon Trail (S3E4)

    Hey, fellow treasure seekers! I’m happy to report we have some Ufology news this week. Just to reiterate, as it may not seem, I believe in aliens/NHI. I understand that I occasionally go hard on grifters like Lue Elizondo and Anna Paulina Luna, but that’s because what they do is a disservice to Ufology. Their…

  • SXSW 2025: How Was Your Weekend? A Surreal Case of the Mondays

    How Was Your Weekend? These four banal little words we ask our coworkers to preserve office etiquette that often has a joyless auto-response attached. I suppose it depends on your corporate culture, but most offices simply don’t care what you’re going through these days. They just need you to be productive. So, what if the…

  • Mystery at Blind Frog Ranch: Aztec Evidence (S3E3)

    Welcome back, fellow explorers! I hate to break it to you but I don’t have any interesting Ufological news for you this week. However, I will say that I haven’t received a cease and desist yet from Elizondo’s “tenacious” lawyer on anything I’ve said thus far. I guess every day is a good day until…

  • My Dead Friend Zoe: A Heartbreaking Ghost Story

    As horror movie lovers, we’re captivated by ghost stories—the fun ones, the dramatic ones, and the ones that are hauntingly unshakable. When The Sixth Sense was released twenty-six years ago, it shook audiences. The symphony of gasps released in the auditorium as traumatic truths were revealed from a specter-seeing boy to his therapist are the…

  • Caddyshacking Gothic Slayers Tee Up a Hole-In-One

    We’ve been leaning into independent films distributed through Cranked Up for a while now. While still relatively new, Cranked Up has been putting out films for over a decade as the genre offshoot of Good Deed Entertainment. Though not every title has been gold, Cranked Up is a studio focused on championing great ideas and…

  • Nevermore Film Festival 2025: Virgin Envisions a Demonic Nativity

    Ever since Nosferatu’s Max Schreck’s shadow slinked across the screen, movies have been subverting storytelling conventions and providing alternative perspectives. Nosferatu, an abject social metaphor for post WWI plague and German xenophobia, proved horror movie storytelling could instill philosophic concepts beyond that of its Hollywood counterparts, mainly seen for entertainment. Nosferatu is the grandfather of…