Well, after an accidental lapse in coverage, we’re back talking about more Simpsons episodes folks! And, it wouldn’t be a modern episode of the show if the subject wasn’t at least four years out of date! That’s right, who wants to talk about cryptocurrency again? But, at […]
We’re apparently having a spooky week here on Puzzled Pagan Presents. I’m not exactly sure why February and March have become quite so full of horror movie releases, other than the potential idea of programming against the glut of romance movies that come out around Valentine’s Day, […]
Hey, do you all remember a few years ago when Universal Studios decided that they would try their hand at this whole Expanded Universe thing that Disney was making so much money with by creating a series of wildly popular films featuring their classic Monsters? No? You […]
If I’m being honest, I’m still kind of shocked that the Academy gave the Best Picture award to Parasite. Of the films nominated I do think that Parasite was the clear best of the bunch, but the idea that the Academy would give their highest honor to a South Korean film […]
Boy, it’s been a while since we’ve had one of these, huh? The strange whims of network television has made it so that we haven’t had a new episode of the Simpsons in quite a while. But, things are going to be pretty consistent from now on, marching […]
This is not an original thought, but there really is something fascinating about the fact that the stars of two of the biggest fantasy franchises of the modern era, Elijah Wood and Daniel Radcliffe, have taken their cultural cache, and the money they earned from the roles, […]
The DC Extended Universe is one of the absolute strangest franchises in recent memory. From the very beginning it was a pretty blatant attempt to copy the success of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, while seeing everything that made that series such a massive hit, and doing the […]
Over the last few years there’s been a real resurgence in a very specific type of horror movie. More arty movies, full of impeccable set-design and cinematography, which largely attempt to generate horror more from mood and tension than out-right scares. These films have been largely associated […]
It sure can be fascinating to look at the ebbs and flows of a director’s career. Everyone’s going to have highs and lows, periods of creative growth and relatively creatively fallow periods. And when there’s a director whose work you’ve generally liked in the past, and they find […]
Nobody has the time to watch everything, and as a result a lot of stuff just kind of slips through the cracks. Especially if it’s not something that just doesn’t generally match up with your preferences. Which, sometimes ends up making it so that you miss out […]