Movies

Some fans of Nightmare Before Christmas couldn’t even get tattoos when the movie came out. We were merely grade school kids with eyes as wide as Sally’s. Then 20 years passed and we were like, “Hell yeah! Our parents can’t stop us now.̶ Read More

It’s hard to imagine cakes as basic flat sheet cakes with basic rose designs when the art of baking has gotten as extreme as that couponing show on TLC. So it’s no surprise that one of the best subjects for the delightful desert and all its glory is The Read More

I decided to end the Halloween crushes on a bloody note. I have a thing for vampires. Just not the sparkly teenage kind. I decided to go back to the first vampire I read about and got a crush on. Anne Rice changed up the world of vampires. She made them Read More

It’s Monday, and that means it’s time for our roundup of our top three (or less) picks of the notable geeky releases for the coming week in games, movies, and video. Check back each Monday for the newest cool stuff that will be hitting over the coming Read More

It’s nearly Halloween, and that means we have one more spooky feature for October’s Fan Art Fridays! Today we’re spotlighting (but not in direct sunlight) the infamous Count Orlok from the classic vampire film Nosferatu. Check out the Read More

This one is going to make a lot of my friends question my sanity but hey, when they write a weekly piece they can pick and choose whoever they want. This week I wanted to talk about that chick who’s mad about being famous, mad about being loved by Read More

Calling a movie a timeless classic has become a fast and lazy way of praising a certain class of movie that hits all the right checkboxes of superior production, endearment, and nostalgia. As hackneyed as that expression may be, is there a better way to Read More

Why do I adore Frankenstein’s Monster so much? Because I identify with him. The Monster is misunderstood. Everyone runs from him when he’s simply trying to communicate the best way he can. Sure, his presence can be seen as overwhelming, but Read More

It’s Monday, and that means it’s time for our roundup of our top three (or less) picks of the notable geeky releases for the coming week in games, movies, and video. Check back each Monday for the newest cool stuff that will be hitting over the coming Read More

Continuing our march toward Halloween, this week’s Fan Art Friday spotlights another icon of horror cinema. In past Octobers I’ve featured Jason Voorhees, Freddy Krueger, and Michael Myers, so it’s just about time that Leatherface got Read More

It was a bleak time for sci-fi and fantasy film fans. Nearly every new release was a sequel, remake, or retread of some other movie that already had rolled through box offices. Original ideas and exciting concepts were in short supply. But wait, Read More

Time to take another look back in this second installment of Scary Nostalgia. This time we are looking back at an iconic scary movie for kids: Hocus Pocus. This movie scared me really bad as a kid. It was years before I could watch it again — I must Read More