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Hi everyone, I want to give a shout out to a fellow author from the Archive of Odd’s Aibophobia Anthology, a series of non-narrative horror stories. Monica Joyce Evans’ “Nature and Mechanics of Causality: A Graduate Seminar (PHYS 631)” is a fictional university course for aspiring time travellers, and I loved every word of it.…

I’ve been reading my eldest girls Terry Pratchett’s books for a while now, starting from The Colour of Magic and most recently about to finish Moving Pictures. While some of the jokes are a little dated, my girls have loved every minute of it, and already have their favourite characters to barrack for (namely Death…

My wife and I loved Guardians of the Galaxy 3, and after looking through James Gunn’s filmography we found he was one of the writers of the 2001 horror movie Thirteen Ghosts. Visually stunning but considered a commercial flop, let’s see if Thirteen Ghosts still chills after more than 20 years. This is going to…

Cube. This is one of those 1990s films that everyone seems to have watched at some point, but no-one can remember many of the details outside of “Saw but with a single room.” The film was a commercial flop yet remains beloved by fans of sci-fi horror. Why? And does it still stack up after…

So, I wanted to cuddle up with my wife and watch the seminal horror classic “Cube.” Y’know, something wholesome and romantic. Instead, she opted for 2004’s “The Day After Tomorrow.” Frankly, I would have preferred the gory murder rooms movie. Since this was a waste of an afternoon, I now intend to make this everyone’s…

Alice in Borderland has just wrapped up it’s second season on Netflix, and my wife and I are still bouncing theories off each other. For those who’ve come late to the show, Alice in Borderland is a sci-fi thriller adapted from the manga of the same name. To keep things as spoiler-free as possible, I’m…

Hi everyone, here’s another recommendation for a great new streaming series worth catching up with. My wife and I loved season 1 of Amazon Prime’s Carnival Row, and I’m already enjoying season 2 just as much. For those who haven’t gotten into the series yet, this review will be spoiler-free. The series takes place in…

It’s been a while since I’ve reviewed any recent shows, and given the constant drabness of the 2022 viewing season I’ve fallen back on reviewing classics or trainwrecks of yesteryear. However, today I want to share a show that I watched on a bit of a whim and have thoroughly enjoyed. Lockwood and Co is…

Hi everyone, I’ve been writing a lot of horror lately, and trying to formulate what makes a good horror story. One of my all-time horror/comedy favourites is Sam Raimi’s 1987 Army of Darkness (yes, I’ll post a review on that one soon, trust me), but I realised I’ve never actually seen the original movie in…

I recently read a report that Hollywood had more box office bombs in 2022 than any year on record, and out of morbid interest I looked through the list of worst movie money pits of all time. About halfway down the list lies a wonderfully bad 2012 sci-fi that managed to lose somewhere between $113-200…