The Blob: a classic case of old-fashioned fright
After Sleepaway Camp, it was time to return to a family-friendly Halloween pick, something my parents and sister would watch with me. And I found that in 1958’s The Blob!…
Under-the-radar slashers (aka, my coworker’s bloody recs)
Inside “What a daughter needs, a mother knows.” A year ago, my favorite coworker to talk movies with recommended two Halloween films: Inside and Sleepaway Camp. I didn’t get around…
Nosferatu: the vampiric silent film star
For my second day of 31 Days of Frights, I picked a movie my mom would watch with me: the 1922 classic Nosferatu! I watched this one in 2021 as…
No One Will Save You: a home invasion movie like no other
Welcome to the beginning of 31 Days of Frights, where I’ll be watching a scary movie every day for the month of October! Our first selection is the Hulu original…
The ultimate, heartbreaking failure of Killing Eve
In my second (and final) year of college (I had a lot of transfer credits going in), I started Killing Eve. This was fall 2021, but I’d been aware of…
The darkly erotic and murderous pages of the Killing Eve trilogy
These reviews are crossposted from my Goodreads account and can be read here, here, and here. Killing Eve book 1: Codename Villanelle *2.75 She's guarding him from the truth about…
End of the hyperspace lane: no season 2 for The Acolyte
…wow. It’s not that I wasn’t apprehensive about The Acolyte’s future, but for Disney+ to acknowledge the show’s failure this openly… like I said, wow. For a Star Wars show…
HIWWI: The Acolyte
Of course it has to be the one SW show I’m caught up on in real time that’s just so… meh. Nah, “meh” is too generous. It’s more like “you…
The Acolyte: all the right ingredients with the wrong recipe
Consider the ingredients of The Acolyte to be its characters, premise, initial relationships, and lightsaber duels. The oven is its execution and its glaze is the finale. In our case,…
The Acolyte episode 8: heartbreaking in all the wrong ways
Here we are! The season finale, the culmination of everything The Acolyte has been building up to… And how do you say “faceplant” in Aurebesh? (Just kidding. I already know…
