As I’ve said a few times on the site, I’m kind of purposefully spending 2020 focusing on sci-fi and fantasy novels, just trying to experience a little comfort food genre stuff while the world falls apart around me. And, while I’ve come across some really fun […]
There’s a very interesting, and a little depressing, fact about the two films that director Ari Aster has made. When Hereditary became such a hit he started talking about the fact that he always envisioned himself as a teller of simple, family-dramas, but found that the market just wasn’t […]
Well folks, we’ve done it. This is the final installment of my Cinematic Century project. Over the past two years we’ve discussed one hundred films, one for every year between 1918 and 2018, and entire century of favorite films. We’ve seen the ebbs and flows of cinema, […]
After a few novels in a row that fell into the large bucket of “historical fiction,” I decided I needed to change things up a bit. And, whenever I find myself in the market for a new novel, my inclination is to go to crime. I’m just […]
As time has gone on I’ve found myself increasingly becoming a huge sucker for historical fiction. I think a big part of it comes from the fact that I’ve gotten far enough away from my time at college that I’ve become oddly nostalgic for learning, and history […]
Merry Fake Christmas, everyone! I’m getting back into the swing of things this week, and after yesterday’s less than stellar introduction back into the world of the Simpsons, I’m at least glad to say that today is better. It’s by no means a wonderful episode of the […]
Hey there everyone! My little hiatus from the Lifetime of Simpsons is finally over! I’ve been away for a while, and have built up a little backlog of episodes, meaning that this week is going to be pretty old-school. I’ll be talking about all four episodes I’ve […]
If there’s one thing that I’ve learned through my experiences reading the novels of Jonathan Lethem, it’s that I’m probably not going to get the book I thought I was getting. Which, has been positive and negative. This is the fourth of Lethem’s novels that I’ve […]
Every year, around the end of the year, I get to enjoy a mad-dash to watch all of the prestige films that get dumped in a town like Denver all at once. Movies that have been on my list all year, but that all get released within […]
It can be pretty hard to find something to read these days. Not because there’s a dearth of quality novels being put out, but because of the opposite. We’re being inundated with great stories, not to even mention the centuries of books already out there waiting to […]
PUZZLED PAGAN PRESENTS 