Statements like "...it's a small world..." can seem trite, cliche, and invoking old-timey Disney rides. However, some things are cliche...

In the world of cinema, theater, and even mere prose, it is always the lead characters who get all the royal attention. After all, they...

The act of creating is a sacred one. When the mind is sharp, the heart is racing, and the path free from all manner of nasty roadblocks...

What a drag it is getting old! So sang The Rolling Stones before they morphed into the hardest rocking group of apple dolls this side of...

Walking outside right as dusk is waning almost completely into darkness, your eyes spot a twinkling light up in the pale-pinky-violet...

2021 has been a strange year. Granted, I think I say that about EVERY year, but still, the statement stands complete with funny little...

The always wonderful Kat Ellinger and myself are back! Celebrate Halloween...Hell's Belles style with some of our favorite films for the...

There are two things that surpass even the strongest chemical intoxicant high: great conversation & art. This is one of the key reasons...

You are a voyeur. But that's okay, because deep down, so is everyone else. The very nature of watching a movie is voyeurism of the safest...

Many things divide us a species. Religious, politics, science, status quo expectations, etc etc. But there is one thing that should unite...

Terror knows many forms. It could be the ghost in your bed (or head), the leering Uncle, the power-mad authority figure, the religious...

My first brand new film article in months is up and live over at Diabolique! This time around I delve into Brandon Colvin's 2020 indie...

Romanticism is one of the deadliest nightshades and nowhere does it bleed brightest than the arts. The doomed writer. The drug addled...

Very few films post-sexual revolution have captured even a mere prism of the such heady cultural reverb in suburban America like Anna...

This is a chapter excerpt from the 2019 book, The Bizarro Encyclopedia of Film Volume 1, penned by myself & John Skipp. Enjoy! Good art...

Back in 2015, I was blessed enough to be a part of the second volume of the Dream Date With a Villain series. Published by the...

The art of the power play and what levels one is willing to sink to sell their soul, or at the very least, their sense of moral self, is...

In the backwoods of America, many a secret is held. Nestled in the woods, desert landscapes, the brick and wood of farms, homes and...

“When you're all alone, what do you want to do? Do you want to die or is it the strangeness in me?” -The Cramps The melancholia of a...

Even in the wild wild west days of adult filmmaking, few directors were as bold and frankly, at times, batshit, as Alex de Renzy. Outre...