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Is this the"final destination" for an aging franchise? Not likely. And that's okay.
I am pretty sure I saw the first Final Destination film in the theaters, though perhaps it was on video. I know I saw the second, but...
parkejason
Aug 16, 20252 min read


The First Family of Marvel Finally Gets the Movie It Deserves
Yes, that's right. For fans of the MCU that don't have a background reading the comics, The Fantastic Four - Reed Richards, Sue Richards,...
parkejason
Jul 26, 20253 min read


The Black Orb Hovers Our Way
The Black Orb, by South Korean author Ewhan Kim, is a short, scary, and inventive quick read, an apocalyptic roller coaster with a great...
parkejason
Jul 24, 20252 min read


Batman: Resurrection is Throwback Fun
There’s little doubt that the release of Tim Burton’s Batman in 1989 was a watershed moment for both film and comic books. It combined a...
parkejason
Jul 17, 20252 min read


It's a bird ... it's a plane ... nope. FINALLY, it's Superman.
James Gunn gets it. I don’t know how he does it, but he gets it. A while back, when I heard James Gunn was making Guardians...
parkejason
Jul 17, 20253 min read


The Stand: Revisited
When people ask me my favorite book, I say Stephen King’s The Stand without much hesitation, my stock answer of the past thirty years. I...
parkejason
Jul 8, 20258 min read


Is Daredevil ... "born again?"
The Daredevil TV show first debuted back in 2015. Wow, when you think about it, that was a different world, was it not? At the time,...
parkejason
Jun 27, 20254 min read


Witchcraft for Wayward Girls casts a spell.
Grady Hendrix's novels are cleverly marketed. Whether it's all him (and if you've seen him speak, you'd know it very well could be) or...
parkejason
Jun 3, 20254 min read


Sinners Works on Every Level
I've said for years that the mark of a good horror story (and any story, by the way) is engaging characters with compelling personal...
parkejason
May 31, 20253 min read


Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice: A Second Look
Believe it or not, I can still remember the first time I watched 1988's Beetlejuice. It was a Saturday morning, the VHS tape encased in...
parkejason
May 26, 20255 min read


Informative Text with a Misleading Title.
Donald J. Robertson's How to Think Like Socrates: Ancient Philosophy as a Way of Life in the Modern World, is a meticulously researched,...
parkejason
May 3, 20252 min read


Thunderbolts - Is Marvel "back?"
On paper, Thunderbolts shouldn't work, seemingly destined to be another misfire by the once bulletproof Disney/Marvel marriage, the...
parkejason
May 2, 20254 min read


Wolf Man has bite ... but does it last?
Warning: this review may have spoilers for 2025's Wolf Man - though they're only spoilers if you've never watched a horror or werewolf...
parkejason
Apr 26, 20253 min read


The Living Force: A Prequel to the Prequels.
I have always been a big Star Wars fan. I've become a fan of a lot of things over the years, I like to say the only things I've never...
parkejason
Apr 2, 20254 min read


Why is M. Night Shyamalan "trapped?"
Josh Hartnett and Ariel Donoghue attend the Lady Raven concert in Trap. I don’t consider myself an apologist for much in this...
parkejason
Mar 18, 20255 min read


"The Genie is out of the bottle." Is that a good thing?
Salman Khan, the founder of the ubiquitous online tutoring platform Khan Academy, is a big proponent of burgeoning AI technology. If you...
parkejason
Mar 11, 20254 min read


Nosferatu is beautiful to look at. The movie. Not the guy.
When I told someone that I wanted to see Nosferatu , the 2024 remake of the 1922 original of the same name, they said, "Why? It's just...
parkejason
Mar 8, 20254 min read


Tender is the Flesh is brilliant and brutal.
Let me start by saying, as a life long fan, I have read and watched a LOT of horror and when you do that, you get to a point where you...
parkejason
Feb 26, 20253 min read


Skeleton Crew may not please everybody, but it's good old-fashioned fun.
Skeleton Crew, Disney’s latest foray into the Star Wars universe, follows young Wim, his friend Neel, and rough-and-tumble local girls KB...
parkejason
Feb 19, 20254 min read


We don't talk about Bruno, and it turns out we're not supposed to talk about Daphne, either.
Teenagers and horror. They seem to go together like peanut butter and jelly, don’t they? It’s hard to pinpoint where this started. As far...
parkejason
Feb 16, 20253 min read
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