Alex MacFadyen is a muppet-identified writer, bookworm, and creator of strange liminal creatures. You can find more of his creations and musings at Critter Lab on Wordpress.
This month I had a very serious article topic in mind, but everything in real life is so serious and difficult right now that I decided what was actually needed was something ridiculous. A friend of mine often goes to whatever is showing at the local discount cinema […]
I like a clever mystery or procedural show but I often have to set aside the pieces that don’t align with my ethics and worldview in order to enjoy them. I mean, technically murder itself doesn’t align with my ethics so I’m always setting that aside, but every […]
This Christmas I found myself sitting in my recliner watching my kid play Baldur’s Gate 3 on his new Steam Deck in the very boring, adult predicament of having asked for relatively practical gifts and now having no new toys to play with. I decided to remedy my […]
Some part of my brain still responds to the idea of a new Jurassic franchise movie with excitement, even though experience tells me it’s going to fail to fill the dino-sized shoes of Jurassic Park. It’s the same with Alien. Maybe there’s some element of the inevitable in […]
every so often I come across something where the twist is so effective that watching it really is a totally different experience when you don’t know where the story goes and I’m glad it was a surprise. I felt that way about the first season of The Good Place, and it’s the same with Shin’ichirô Ueda’s zombie horror-comedy film, One Cut of the Dead. So I’m going to attempt to pull off the neat magic trick of telling you about it without, you know, telling you about it.
The truth is that all I really want to read is fantasy. Stories set in other worlds, other solar systems, other versions of reality that don’t entirely resemble this one. I used to read a much wider range of fiction and every so often I still pick up […]
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