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Will Paramount Treat Looney Tunes Any Better Than Warner Bros.?

Generation Beta (which is apparently the classification of today’s kids, born from 2025 to 2039) most likely won’t understand the power of hand-drawn animation cels, because they’ll never see it. These days, they’re all created via CGI and now artificial… Continue Reading →

The #HauntLife 2025 Mid-Year Movie Missteps Awards

Every year delivers a few cinematic masterpieces, a handful of surprises, and then… well, then there are the others. These are the movies that made us check our watches, doubt our life choices or wonder if everyone else saw a… Continue Reading →

July 14, 2025

The Punch Isn’t Spiked Enough for Fear Street: Prom Queen

Imagine it’s a warm summer night in 1992. You’ve just picked up the latest R.L. Stine Fear Street book, and the anticipation is palpable as you settle in. A cozy canopy drapes over your bed, transforming your space into a… Continue Reading →

May 28, 2025

Halo Fans Deserve a Better Live-Action Adaptation

Master Chief in green armor, holding helmet.

Cynical gamers weren’t too shocked by the recent revelation that the Halo streaming series was cancelled due to poor ratings. There was so much promise this time around for the Showtime-produced program, but after two seasons, it simply didn’t work… Continue Reading →

August 18, 2024

Godzilla Minus One/Minus Color Deserves More Recognition!

Per Matt Poor Japan. Always getting destroyed by Godzilla. For almost 70 years now, as soon as the behemoth rose out of the Pacific Ocean for the very first time, the kaiju has spawned a film franchise, as well as… Continue Reading →

January 28, 2024

Peacock’s Twisted Metal Sparks a Nostalgic Path of Destruction

Twisted Metal found its way into my collection of games during the era of the original PlayStation gaming console. In my teenage years, I had an insatiable appetite for video games, eagerly bringing home new adventures week after week. In… Continue Reading →

September 10, 2023

Next of Kin: What Happened to the Paranormal Activity Franchise?

Per Matt Paranormal Activity was lightning in a bottle for Blumhouse Productions back in 2007. The micro-budgeted film spawned a franchise, building a house of horrors for Producer Jason Blum. Now that the spooky season is upon us, I chose… Continue Reading →

October 3, 2022

Reshoots, Rewrites and Reboots of a Galaxy Far, Far Away…

With multiple directors’ chairs rotating (as well as different screenwriters checking out) within the cinematic Star Wars Universe, what, exactly, is going on with Lucasfilm?

November 20, 2017

South Park Hits Season 20 Benchmark

South Park characters stand and pledge allegiance.

This week, South Park aired the first episode of its 20th season, tying Gunsmoke and Law & Order for the second-longest running primetime TV series behind only The Simpsons, which has cataloged 28 seasons of its own, and is still… Continue Reading →

September 17, 2016

Geek Culture, Zombies... and Other Monsters

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