Stranger Things fans, have you ever wondered what happened during season one from Will’s point of view? The series of four comics issues by Jody Houser, Stefano Martino, Keith Champagne, Lauren Affe, and Nate Piekos give fans of the show an opportunity to find out. Comic readers experience "the upside down" from Will’s perspective, a narrative strongly influenced by inspiration from gaming, music, and the camaraderie of friends and family. On a deeper sociopolitical level, th

Comedy is hard: Black Comedy is near impossible. Additionally, Black Comedy is also sometimes hard to define. For me, it involves finding humor in characters indulging in their darker nature via crime, usually murder, but it also requires having an audience willing to go there because they have pondered such macabre concepts themselves. In this regard, I believe Black Comedy is a truly symbiotic experience. The successful ones like The War of the Roses, Heathers, and To Die F

Title: John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum Genre: Action Stars: Keanu Reeves, Ian McShane, Halle Berry, Lance Reddick, Laurence Fishburne, Asia Kate Dillon, Mark Dacascos, and Angelica Huston Director: Chad Stahelski Bias: I love puppies. Grade: A In A Nutshell: Picking up moments after John Wick 2, John Wick has been excommunicated from the omnipresent community of assassins he had previously been drawn back into. When the hour-long grace period he has been given expires, he m

As a lifelong lover of film, I know have a tendency to get a bit snobbish when it comes to other people’s taste. I have been known to snicker and roll my eyes whenever I hear co-workers or total strangers in public discuss the kind of movies I wouldn’t see if I were getting paid to. The truth of the matter is that I can be just as goofy as the next person. And I don’t mean enjoying the comedic gold of Mel Brooks, or the brilliant satire of Zucker Abrams Zucker (Airplane, The

I will admit it, the last few weeks have been pretty dark in terms of my film recommendations since it has included two end of the world films (Miracle Mile and Seeking a Friend for the End of the World) and a nuclear threat thriller (The Manhattan Project). Then again, so have a lot of my choices over the past year in this blog. My wife often chides me for my taste in film, but I can’t really help it. I am often drawn to tales of darkness, despair and anything that makes me

Some movies just can’t be re-made. Whether it’s 1982’s The Entity, which features Barbara Hershey being repeatedly raped by a spirit, 1980’s Cruising (which I wrote about earlier) for being so incredibly politically incorrect and insensitive to the gay community or 1980’s Xanadu because, well, they got it right the first time and it’s just awesome 😊, some films cannot be re-made. And I understand there are filmmakers who want to re-make whatever they want because A) the film