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 year my search for seasonal spooky film fare took me to the opposite side of the globe with a few fantastic recent movies out of New Zealand, Mārama and The Rule of Jenny Pen. They led me down a rabbit hole of horror from down under, so […]
There’s something about the heat of summer that makes me want to watch something slow and surreal, like a series of mirages forming and transforming as I float in my summer heat bubble with a cold beverage. None of the films I’m thinking of are classic summertime fare, […]
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 […]
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