Month: April 2020

A review of Rian Johnson’s Whodunnit Knives Out via Of Knives Out — Becoming The Muse

If you’ve ever wanted to watch a disappointing 90s indie crime version of Waiting for Godot, then Among Them is chief among them. via Among Them (2019) — Psycho Drive-In

The tales of somewhat deluded real-life antiheroes have always been popular, but perhaps never more so than right now, as Tiger King continues to produce memes and fans and jokes about feeding husbands to tigers. The Tribeca documentary Harley, from director Jean-Cosme Delaloye, attempts to follow in the tradition of similar underdog stories of like […]… Continue reading ‘Harley’ Tells the Uncomfortable Story of an Underdog We Can’t Root For (Tribeca 2020) — Citizen Dame

David Fincher directed Zodiac, a movie about the hunt for a serial killer in 1970’s San Francisco. Fincher is probably best known as the director of Se7en. He later directed the American version of the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Gone Girl, and The Social Network. Robert Graysmith was working as a cartoonist for the […]… Continue reading Zodiac — The Renewal Notice

Last year Disney entered the streaming game, like everyone else it seems, and immediately became one of its biggest players. Thanks to a vast array of content from the Walt Disney Company but their subsidiaries at: Marvel, Pixar, Lucasfilm, National Geographic, and Fox. All of this for a price so low you’ll think they’ve had […]… Continue reading Missing From Disney Plus — Funk’s House of Geekery

Nobody is immune to war. Except, maybe, the ones who are selling it. via Lord of War — Moments of Truth

https://youtube.com/watch?v=_kbQAJR9YWQ%3Ffeature%3Doembed Gonna be a spooky May. via All The Horror Movies Coming To Netflix, Hulu, And Prime In May 2020 — Thought Catalog

One of the most troubling problems with the true crime genre, if you ask the hosts of the megahit Last Podcast on the Left, can be summed up with the 2019 Netflix docuseries Conversations with a Killer, or, as co-host Marcus Parks calls it, “That fucking Ted Bundy series.” Parks and his Last Podcast co-creators… via… Continue reading ‘Last Book on the Left’ Cuts Serial Killers Down to Size — Networthy Newz

They got along, in their way. They didn’t fight, or hadn’t for a long time. A silent acceptance that they’d never be close, not the way other sons and fathers were. A few failed attempts at sports, a few “We ought to do that” moments over something seen on T.V. that never led to actually […]… Continue reading The Only Book His Dad Ever Borrowed from Him: A CENTURY OF NOIR Edited by Mickey Spillane and Max Allan Collins — John Stephen Walsh