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Double Features 003: Trauma Is Your Neighbor Edition

Welcome to Double Features! For these posts, I’ll watch two movies—maybe they are obviously related, maybe they’re not—and then I’ll decide whether they would make a good double feature. Spiral Year: 2019Runtime: 1h 27mRated: not rated Writers: Colin Minihan, John PoliquinDirector: Kurtis David HarderStars: Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman, Ari Cohen, June Laporte, Ty Wood The year is […]

Reading Notes, 7/7/25

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Double Features 002: Malcolm McDowell Edition

Welcome to Double Features! For these posts, I’ll watch two movies—maybe they are obviously related, maybe they’re not—and then I’ll decide whether they would make a good double feature. Time After Time Year: 1979Runtime: 1h 52mRated: PG Writers: Nicholas Meyer, Steve Hayes, Karl AlexanderDirector: Nicholas MeyerStars: Malcolm McDowell, David Warner, Mary Steenburgen Author and inventor […]

Miscellanea, 7/3/25

What’s Been Happening? Oh, summer. We’ve had a couple weeks of hot temperatures, but we also had a monsoon storm last night. So far, so good. Not surprisingly, my noon-time ultimate frisbee game has gone dormant. Thursday night pick up has been pretty good, but now it’s July and VOTS is in the process of […]

Double Features 001: Kathryn Bigelow Edition

Welcome to Double Features! For these posts, I’ll watch two movies—maybe they are obviously related, maybe they’re not—and then I’ll decide whether they would make a good double feature. Blue Steel Year: 1990Runtime: 1h 42mRated: R Writers: Kathryn Bigelow, Eric RedDirector: Kathryn BigelowStars: Jamie Lee Curtis, Ron Silver, Clancy Brown, Elizabeth Peña Rookie cop Megan […]

Project Fangoria: Issue 9

Issue 9, November 1980 Publisher Kerry O’Quinn is in the editorial section this month with a very important message: while horror can be fun, it’s not for everyone. Which is an interesting thing to say as the magazine continues to more firmly embrace the horror genre. There are, in the letters section and in several […]

Reading Notes, 6/27/25

Book Where All Light Tends to Go by David Joy Back in April, I came across a video of David Joy speaking at a county commissioners’ meeting. The commissioners of Jackson County (North Carolina) had decided, without public input, to remove a plaque from a public statue that had covered a Confederate flag and the […]

Cinema Saturday, 6/21/25

In the Shadow of the Towers: Stuyvesant High on 9/11 Year: 2019Runtime: 35mRated: n/a Writers: Taresh Batra, Catherine Choy, Ilya FeldsherovDirector: Amy Schatz Eight students of Stuyvesant High School (a half mile from the World Trade Center) share their experiences of 9/11. Due to the interesting situation, this documentary had been on my watchlist for […]

Reading Notes, 6/18/25

Book Wearing the Lion by John Wiswell I was provided a copy of Wearing the Lion by DAW Books via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. As a kid, I went through a Greek myth phase. It was kicked off by the adoption of cable television at my grandparent’s house: one of the first […]

Monday Miscellanea, 6/16/25

What Happened Last Week? It’s not officially summer yet, but the weather in Tempe doesn’t care. Actually, we had a pretty nice spring so I can’t be that mad. But I’m behind the ball on turning off the water heater and putting away my blankets. And generally the heat just makes me feel lazy . […]