It feels good to be hopeful bout AHS again. American Horror Story Season 12 is out, and I’m feeling cautiously optimistic. After last year’s AHS NYC, I was starting to feel a little hopeless. It wasn’t scary, it wasn’t campy, we were already missing some of our favorite cast members…

A review of Netflix’s Dear Child I’m just going to say it: Germans do it better. And by “it,” I mean producing enigmatic, darkly beautiful shows. This year’s Dear Child is a limited series on Netflix, and it was almost as binge-able as 1899. I say almost because Dear Child…

Review of the movie Five Nights at Freddy’s The Five Nights at Freddy’s movie was announced way back in 2015. Eight years is a long time for hype to build up, deflate, and build back up again, which makes it hard for any movie to meet expectations. In 2015, both…

Tea: Earl Grey, hot I was a Star Trek-obsessed kid. I watched Star Trek 4, The Voyage Home about a dozen times, and I thought Data was the coolest android ever to grace the screen. I really wished I could be BFFs with Wesley Crusher. I made an early TNG…

Brief review of the 2022 film Biosphere isn’t for everyone. I spent the next couple of hours after I watched it trying to decide if it was for me. It’s a simple premise. Billy (Mark Duplas) and Ray (Sterling K. Brown) have been friends since childhood. Billy also happens to…

Ranked! Bob’s Burgers is one of my favorite shows. I’m a serious fan, and Halloween is my favorite holiday. I’ve dressed my dogs as Bob and Linda for Halloween, I’ve tried to convince my kids to do a Belcher family group costume with me (sadly, a no-go) and I passionately…

Four new short films based on Roald Dahl books have just released on Netflix. — Today, Netflix released the last of four new Wes Anderson short films. All were based on Roald Dahl short stories, and all were delightfully odd, brightly colored, and playful, even when the tales they were telling weren’t all 100 percent light. Anderson decided that Dahl’s own words were such an…

A quick review of the new UFO docuseries. — The July Congressional hearing about UFOs (the pros called them UAPs) blew the country’s collective mind. Credible people giving sworn testimony about real UFOs in our airspace was insane, and we all felt like we needed more. Encounters couldn’t have come at a more perfect time. Produced by Stephen Spielberg’s…

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