Month: May 2018

I remember hearing, or reading about, this rumor back in 2008 when RAMBO came out in theaters and promptly face-planted. The rumor that there would be a RAMBO 5, and that it would feature the ex-Green Beret doing battle with a shaggy werewolf-like monster. There was SOME truth to the rumor, in that Sylvester Stallone…

It’s hard to believe it’s been a year this week since the third season of TWIN PEAKS debuted on Showtime. Where does the time go? We had to wait 25 years for that season, and it was worth it, even though it left us all panting for more. TWIN PEAKS is kinda like drugs. It…

After TOM CRUISE VS. THE MUMMY (aka THE MUMMY) came out last year and spectacularly flamed-out both critically and financially (except for Europe), we got word that the (poorly) planned DARK UNIVERSE from Universal Pictures, to be based on the shared universe of Marvel movies and to stress Action-Adventure over Horror, was being put out…

Here’s what I didn’t understand. How could it be such a big deal for a wild black panther to be spotted, when you see black panthers all the time, on TV and at the local zoo? They aren’t supposedly extinct or anything. Why are they so mysterious, the sightings so contentious? I did some homework…

You’ve no doubt seen it in the headlines recently, the way in which DNA evidence led to the apprehension of the “Golden State Killer.” There was some brouhaha over the way they caught the guy, a 72-year-old former cop named Joseph James DeAngelo, with some complaining about the way the authorities got hold of the…

The only complaints about this series that I would give any credence to whatsoever were those alleging that it started a bit “slow.” If it did, it sure made up for it these last couple of episodes. Even knowing from having read the book upon which the series was based, as well as from the…

Yeah, you don’t need for me to tell you who Black Phillip is. And now Funko, the coolest production company on the planet, is releasing a Funko figure of the demonic goat. Yes, I will be buying it, and I’m betting you will be, too. In real life, Black Phillip is portrayed by a goat…

We don’t know specifically what happened to the crew of the Franklin Expedition, other than they died. Most of them, we don’t know HOW they died. We can make some good guesses: starvation, hypothermia, disease. Possibly murder. That a huge, shaggy, and intelligent monster killed a bunch of them is a matter for the imagination…

The Rock group Sevendust has a new song out entitled “Not Original” that was inspired by STRANGER THINGS. Sevendust is one of the few “modern” bands that doesn’t give me hives, so this is cool. Guitarist Clint Lowery says: “We wanted to get into some new territory…It’s about being in a dry spell and not…

Newsflash: If you are a werewolf, silver will kill you. Also, if you are NOT a werewolf, silver will kill you. If you get it inside you, that is. In your bloodstream. It was previously hoped that nanoparticles of silver could be used to kill harmful bacteria. That’s good. But scientists at the University of…