Spoilers for ‘Stranger Things’ and ‘Stranger Things 2’ Below… ‘Stranger Things’ turned nostalgia into art. The first season of Netflix’s best show (it is, admit it) gave us everything we loved about the 80s (Spielberg! King! Carpenter!) and wrapped it in a nice, little, easy-to-binge, package. What sets it apart from every other 80s cash-grab are the formal determinations of the work; the child actors are the best in the business, the adults deliver career-defining performanc

Wow. I kinda don’t know where to start on this. These are two movies I haven’t been able to stop thinking about since seeing them. Both are undeniably odd, almost unspeakably disgusting, but one seems to be a legitimate artistic work while the other seems to be the cinematic version of “Scrotie McBoogerballs” (it’s a South Park reference. Look it up.). First, let’s do a quick recap of each film. Spoilers ahead. “We Are The Flesh” is a Mexican film from 26 yr-old writer/d

Do you remember the first movie you bought with your own money? Think about it for the next 8 paragraphs and we’ll get back it… Anyways…in a little over a month, I will be turning 35 years old. And for as long as I can remember, I have been obsessed with media: film, television, comic books, music, video games – you name it. At age 4 I was living in southern California. That’s when I told my parents I wanted to make movies, so they put me in acting classes and got me a manage

Whenever I have an afternoon NOT in the office, I usually like to get caught up on movies I’ve been meaning to see. And usually, those are horror movies. And even though I’ve had the pleasure to produce an interview with Elijah Wood and Rainn Wilson ABOUT their 2014 film, “Cooties,” I never had a chance to see it. Until just the other day. “Cooties” is a horror/comedy in the vein of “Shaun of the Dead,” (it even has zombies!) where it is just as funny as it is scary. And whil

It’s good. Sure. Honestly, I can’t wait for the hyperbole to settle down on this movie, because it makes critically examining it and its place in the Marvel Cinematic Universe as a whole, difficult. Is the movie good? Yes. Yes, it is. Is it the best Marvel movie? No. Is it even the best Spider-Man movie? In some respects, yes. But we’ll get to that in eight paragraphs. “Spider-Man: Homecoming” is the sixth film starring good ol’ web-head, and to be honest, it’s the first time

I’ve been sitting on my thoughts of “Alien: Covenant” for five days now, and the more I ponder the film, the more confused I feel about it. First thing’s first, I love the Alien franchise. The first film is one of the best horror films ever made, the sequel is what nearly every action/sci-fi film has ripped off in the last 30 years, the third film is flawed, but beautiful, the fourth is stupid fun, the first AVP flick is a perfect Saturdaymatinee – in fact, “AVP: Requiem” is

“It’s the Empire Strikes Back of the series.” There. That’s out of the way. If you’ve even casually scanned any written reviews or watched any of the seemingly-endless talking head geek movie review channels on YouTube, you’ve heard that chorus. And to be fair, it’s true. Kind of. Usually, when people whip out the Episode V comparison, it’s because the movie being reviewed is darker in tone, thematically, than the previous outing in the franchise. And while a “Godfather Part