The Firefly Funhouse
A match between the late Bray Wyatt and John Cena called a “Firefly Funhouse Match” showed that WWE could do something truly subversive.
John Carpenter and the Secret of the Ooze
Prince of Darkness (1987) is not often included among John Carpenter’s greatest films. To be fair, he has a lot of great films. The writer-director-composer-grumpy soundbite generator has clocked an embarrassment of beloved cinema in his time. Halloween (1978), Escape From New York (1981), The Thing (1982), Big […]
Tasher Desh: Hypnotized into Appreciation?
A few weeks ago, the Indian cinema-focused Twitter account Cinema Rare posted a list of “some of the trippiest Indian films,” and with wording like that, I knew I had to investigate the whole thing, regardless of how likely I was to agree.* Skimming the 25 titles, I […]
Loving Disreputable Wrestling
Given all the other things I like, it should come as no surprise that the wrestling I love most is disreputable wrestling. Wait, you might say, all wrestling is disreputable. That’s true, but some kinds of wrestling are more disreputable than others among reputable wrestling fans. And it […]
Get In, We’re Going OppenDrac’ing
As so many people did over the last month, I set out for my local multiplex to engage in a practice called Barbenheiming. If you’ve been insulated from any sort of news or media this summer (in which case I envy you, friends), this means pairing up a […]
Be Our Guest
Christian Tafdrup’s Speak No Evil (2022), also called Gæsterne (The Guests) in Danish, easily places among the most disturbing horror movies I’ve ever seen, and not for the usual reasons. There’s no body horror, no stalking, no over-the-top violence. There’s hardly any violence at all for that matter, […]
The Cultural Gutter 