New Story in the Anthology “Caravans Awry”

"Tales of carnival knowledge imparted by ringmasters & roustabouts, wranglers & the restless dead. Hit the road and follow the circus down Route 66 where you'll meet con-artists, freaks, jugglers, & clowns; and while their antics aren't always nice, they never fail to entertain!" My story "The Tulsa Devil" is part of this excellent anthology, …

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Blood and Superheroes: Review of Revenge

Watch or Not: Watch What do you get when you cross the #metoo movement with The Wild Bunch? A bloodbath. Revenge is ridiculous. Things happen that could never happen. You think: hey, no one could survive that! Hey, no one could lose that much blood and live much less fight! Hey, that's not how you …

Strange Indeed: Review of The Strange Ones

Watch or Not: Watch Two roads diverged in a yellow wood... You will either really get into this movie or likely hate it. I found it fascinating. A narrative structure that is chunked up and told in a disorienting nonlinear mess. A central relationship that is both troubling and yet may not be what we …

Where the Wild Things Aren’t: Review of Wilding

Watch or Not: Not I remember watching the trailer for Wildling and thinking, "Hey, that looks alright, even if I can guess what happens." Well, I was half right. Wildling, something of a hybrid between Twilight and Room, starts off decently enough, especially if you're a fan of Brad Dourif, which I am.  It's easy …

Who’s Your Daddy: Review of Shelley

Watch or Not: Not For the longest time I didn't watch this movie, though it kept popping up in my Netflix recommendations. From the name and cover image Netflix used (a girl's face, not the image to the left), I thought it was an old movie about Mary Shelley I'd already seen. I was wrong, …

Yeesh: Review of The Veil (2016)

Watch or Not: Not God, that wasn't good at all. As much as I love Thomas Jane, and he is really the only good thing about this movie, he can't save it. The Veil (2016), ostensibly about a cult and its only survivor, a five-year-old girl given the name Sarah Hope (Lily Rabe) after she's …

Darkbird: Review of Pyewacket

Watch or Not: Watch Some of the best horror movies could double as dramas. I recently reviewed Possession, which is as intense a movie about the dissolution of a marriage you'll ever see. It also descends into gore-drenched insanity, which is why it's horror. Similarly, if in concept if not degree, Pyewacket delves into the tough emotional …