Today is Valentine’s Day and what could be more romantic than being pigeonholed? Now that I’ve written that sentence, I feel the need to clarify: ‘being pigeonholed’ isn’t, to my […]

The future. We’re all going to be living in it any moment now. And we know exactly what to expect of it. No, not hover cars, teleportation, sleek rocketships, Moon […]

I know; it’s easy to get trapped on the couch. You’ve got your blanky, and the dog curled up beside you, and your giant television playing a non-stop A-Team marathon. In […]

What with the 11th annual Noir City festival coming up here in San Francisco (which I just wrote about here), I’ve got noir on the brain. Last week’s Evil Genius […]

Holy shitballs! I am exceptionally happy to offer up this week’s Stand By For Mind Control Double Feature. Positively giddy! I’m like a schoolgirl with a throat full of bourbon bouncing […]

And so we find ourselves in the cold, dark days of January. The nights are long, the trees are bare, the skies—well, all right, it’s sunny at the moment, but […]

Oh. My. Holy. Fucking. APOCALYPTIC MAYHEM! We are all screwed. We are screwed every which way. Up, down, sideways, and inside out. Screwed. It is now 2013, a year I had […]

It’s the holiday season, and if you’re like me, when December rolls around, you simply can’t stuff enough Jesus inside of you. He’s everywhere you look. His smiling face is […]

Ah, the holidays! This time of year, our thoughts turn to home, travel, and rural meth heads. Or family. Whatever. Tomato, tomahto. This week’s brain-boggling Mind Control Double Feature pairs two films that […]

Sometimes that’s just how the story goes. Giant rampaging insectoids threaten to decimate a community. The only way to stop them, of course, is a good old fashioned dose of […]

Film noir isn’t all 1940s, black hats, deep shadows, back-stabbing women, desperate criminals, and the hopeless futility of trying to escape one’s fate. It’s mostly that, which is why film […]

There is, perhaps, a thin film of deception spread across the skein of the world. What you see with your eyes, what your ears alert you to, what your grubby […]