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Last week on American Gods, Shadow (Ricky Whittle) referred to the difference between believing in ghosts and believing in gods. He also said he “…believe[d] the shit out of love” so, when his love, Laura (Emily Browning), is a ghost or “something ...

“Even the smart ones [people] have some kind of delusion they believe in, whether it’s gods or ghosts,” Shadow tells Wednesday. Since Shadow hasn’t decided on a god to believe in, that leaves ghosts and, sure enough, in the final ...

Guests come to visit with presents for their hosts. Worshippers leave offerings for their Gods. It’s never bad practice to come bearing gifts, but on American Gods, where hosts can be gods, are you also required to believe? In the ...

Who is a free man? After getting released from jail early, that’s what Shadow Moon (Ricky Whittle) is supposed to be. There’s a job waiting for him at his best friend’s gym. There’s his marriage, where “I love you” comes ...

Talk about a bad month for old and new god relations. Besides American Gods premiering soon on Starz, a collected volume of Groo: Fray of the Gods comes out this week from Dark Horse, and Groo’s reach is extending to ...

Get the Balance Right, the animated shorts block from this year’s Boston Underground Film Festival (22nd to 26th March), is a fitting title for this selection of films. The sentence is a command, not a statement, and understanding the implications of that ...

Currently looking for distribution in the states, Window Horses is the story of a young woman named Rosie Ming who gets invited to participate in a poetry festival. While Rosie’s poems center around her love of Paris, a city she’s ...

When you can’t count on death… an impossible sentence to finish, but that is what the world has sunk to in Stille Reserven (Hidden Reserves, 2016), a movie that considers the conditions necessary to make people spend their whole life ...

“Why do you always have to make things so hard?” an exasperated Annie asks Dave. At this point in Dave Made A Maze (2017) the group are running away from a minotaur, transformed into paper bags, and ducking out of ...

Bates Motel ended its fourth season by bringing characters closer to the events of Alfred Hitchcock’s movie, Psycho (1960), and announced in July that Rhianna had been cast as Marion Crane, but it’s the character we lost in season four ...