I recently got the eleventh and newest edition of The Norton Anthology of English Literature . It was released last year and has a number ...

Joe Pantoliano attains a talent for resurrection thanks to a cat's internal organ in "Dig That Cat . . . He's Real Gone"...

Usually when I watch The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles I tend to skip around to this or that episode that draws my interest for various re...

In the "More Things Change, the More they Stay the Same" department, I found it funny that the articles I've read about Oliv...

In 1985, one of Steven Spielberg's many projects was the launch of a new anthology television series called Amazing Stories . I hadn...

I had to get a root canal yesterday and the dentist and his assistant were talking about the recent American Music Awards throughout the pro...

Looking for feminism in Frankenstein is kind of like looking for romance in Alice in Wonderland . People really want it to be there and, ...

Happy Memorial Day. I watched Stanley Kubrick's 1957 film Paths of Glory again this morning, which Wikipedia labels as an "anti-...

Self-insert Mary Sue characters are widely seen as a hallmark of bad writing but sometimes they really work, a prime example being 1993...

I was watching this new Olivia Rodrigo video yesterday, thinking how endearing it is she likes the Cure so much, particularly for an old C...

I think Michael Keaton is the best actor ever cast as Batman. Everyone who's played the character since kind of imitates him. Well, wh...

Sam Raimi has used the venerable genre of the desert island scenario to discuss modern socio-political tensions in 2026's Send Help . ...

A teenage girl is horrified when her best friend becomes a demon in 2009's Jennifer's Body , which Roger Ebert described as "...

It's only been a few years since the UK declared that octopuses are sentient beings and already there's a pro-octopus propaganda f...

I got a Comixology subscription recently through Amazon and grabbed a few titles with covers that appealed to me, like this one: I'd...

We all know the story. A group of teenagers gets rowdy on prom night, they take a risky journey to somewhere new, and they engage in sexua...

I also watched Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas again recently. I was thinking it could work as a good companion piece to Once Upon a Time in...

A magical cat comes to town and reveals all the hypocrites and envious tyrants in 1963's The Cassandra Cat . It's obviously a poli...

Spicy '90s cinema often seems so quaint now. I watched Atom Egoyan's 1994 film Exotica again, which is his most famous film, thou...

Well, it was nice to get a little decent Marvel content in Punisher: One Last Kill last night, even if it did feel more like John Wick co...