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Angela Englert

Writes at culturalgutter.com, blogs at screamsharing.com

The Nightmare Before Christmas

Imagine, if you will, King’s College, Cambridge, almost one hundred years ago… Every Christmas Eve has its ritual. Those invited make their way for the appointed time, out of the darkness, where the Master waits. Montague Rhodes James, provost of King’s, scholar, antiquary, and writer of ghost stories. […]

Disney Dreamlife Crisis

I only purchased Disney Dreamlight Valley for my child. I will swear to it.  It seemed like a good idea. The appeal of creating her own virtual space via games like Roblox and Minecraft was reaching my daughter through peers and family, but–not to be a Pollyanna–the things […]

Look Back in Anger

Veronica Ghent (Alice Krige) is a woman at the beginning of the end. Her breakthrough film is being remade, her ingenue role recast. The director (Malcolm McDowell) who groomed her for stardom and groomed her, full stop, is being knighted, the remake that threatens to eclipse her renown […]

Good For Her

WARNING: This entire thing is Spoiler City for bunches of movies, but especially: The Babadook, Midsommar, The Witch, Ready or Not, The Invisible Man, Gretel and Hansel, The Descent, No One Gets Out Alive, A Classic Horror Story, His House, Censor, Saint Maud, The Perfection, A Promising Young […]

Good is the New Bad

This article includes spoilers for Disney’s The Descendants. The story behind the making of Disney’s The Descendants (2015) is itself a tale as old as time, or at least as old as the concept of corporate ip. Spinning off from the success of Monster High, toymaker Mattel–who also […]