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Please note: I’m not going to pretend I know anything about Dungeons & Dragons beyond what I’ve read in a Players Handbook I had lying around in hopes of joining a game, but I didn’t know many people who played. I maybe spent one weekend at a friend’s house playing Warhammer 40K, and there were […]

“You’re not Woodsboro,” someone says to an outsider in Scream VI at a pivotal moment. Which, of course, would mean something had not only half of the six Scream films taken place in the fictional town of Woodsboro, where all the mayhem started twenty-seven years ago. Especially since one of the main characters in all […]

Okay. Y’all remember the NBC television series The Good Place by Michael Schur, which featured a group of misfits rallying around one of their own as their leader, shepherded by an older man who knew more about what was going on than they did? And through multiple lifetimes of hard knocks and lessons, they become […]

Writer/director John Krasinski didn’t want to make a sequel to his 2018 smash A Quiet Place, claiming it was “a one-off,” something that needed no further advancement. However, he soon realized the possibilities of expanding the world of the film and the metaphors which rang so soundly throughout it. A Quiet Place wasn’t just about […]

I’m gonna be straight up here: I like watching Nancy Meyers’ What Women Want from time to time. A pre-meltdown Mel Gibson and an absolutely delightful Helen Hunt aided and abetted by a supporting cast which includes the likes of Ashley Johnson, Alan Alda, Judy Greer, and Bette Midler? What couldn’t you like about it? […]

SPOILER ALERT: While I do not discuss the ending, I will highlight something which happens in the pre-title sequence. It’s an event which drives the rest of the film; discussing it, though, ruins the intended shock. This paragraph will be marked accordingly. A Quiet Place hits on so many different levels, it’s hard to know […]