I used to think once you knew one killer Santa, you knew them all. Not after reading Spectacular Optical’s Yuletide Terror. A book churning with more killer Santas than you’d ever want to meet in a lifetime (assuming you survived ...

At the end of the short film, “Birdboy” (2011), Dinki asks the title character to fly her away. In the follow-up film, Psychonauts, The Forgotten Children (Psiconautas, Los Niños Olvidados, 2015), Dinki is looking for ways off the island herself, ...

It’s a lot easier to get what you want when you don’t question the circumstances that made everything come together. Jim has always been someone who’s put weight in his misgivings. When a relationship doesn’t feel right, he’s ready to ...

When you’re about to be evicted and a treasure map falls in your lap, you know it’s time to change your plans and go on an adventure. This is what happens to Henry (Lucas Zumann) and his big sister, Joy, ...

Everyone has that classic they never got around to reading, but if I don’t mention how many years a Barnes and Noble leather-bound edition of Jane Eyre has been sitting on my book shelf, it’s probably because it’s not my ...

There’s more than enough room for human-dog partnerships across Jim Henson’s oeuvre, but it’s true. For a while there I was convinced the narrators of Jim Henson’s The Storyteller: Giants were Fraggle Rock’s Doc and Sprocket. Doc wore glasses and ...

A group of people are invited to a deserted island. They’ve never met the owner. One by one, each person turns up dead. Il Demone di Laplace (The Laplace’s Demon, Giordano Giulivi, 2017) isn’t a remake of Agatha Christie’s And ...

Marcus King is not a terrorist. Anyone who feels they should begin with that assurance probably shouldn’t be taken at their word, but that’s where writer, Alex De Campi, delivers her first blow in Bankshot #1. Right before professing he’s ...

The idea of being watched has always been horrifying but what if you were being watched… by no one? That sentence might sound like it’s trying too hard, but writer, Cullen Bunn, and artist, Jack T. Cole, have created a ...

When Laura (Emily Browning) asked Salim (Omid Abtahi) whether he ‘loved God’ or was ‘in love with God,’ I wasn’t sure if I understood the question. This episode, when Wednesday (Ian McShane) asked Shadow (Ricky Whittle) if he had faith, ...