Month: December 2015
Tanis Podcast Review
It’s no secret that I’m a huge fan of The Black Tapes podcast. I was thrilled to discover that the same creators have another podcast in a similar vein called Tanis. This show revolves around a podcaster, Nic Silver (who is a familiar name…
FanMail December Box
Previously I reviewed my first FanMail subscription box, with fairly mixed results. I decided to give it a second try. In all honesty I was even less impressed with the December box. Full disclosure: I was ambivalent about the concept of subscription boxes in…
Can You Survive The Star Wars Holiday Special?
I decided that this was the year I was going to sit down and make myself watch this most infamous entry in the Star Wars saga, the two-hour Holiday Special that aired only once. It’s so horrifying that it’s…er, well, no, I can’t actually…
Xena: Warrior Princess Gets A Reboot
Word just broke that the long-rumored Xena reboot has finally materialized. While Lucy Lawless doesn’t seem to be involved in the project, Sam Raimi is back at the helm. I admit that I had a lot of qualms about the idea of a Xena…
Viscera Cleanup Detail: Santa’s Rampage
I reviewed Viscera Cleanup Detail several months ago but I’ve been waiting for the holiday season to roll around before diving into the Christmas extra, Santa’s Rampage. Santa’s Rampage is the jolliest time you’ll ever spend while knee-deep in elf guts and reindeer chunks….
The Middleman
I enjoyed Javier Grillo-Marxuach’s short-lived TV show The Middleman but never got around to reading the graphic novels they were based on. Recently I rectified that oversight and I couldn’t have been more delighted. The Middleman centers around a main character of the same…
Tales From A Galaxy Far, Far Away
As another installment of the journey to The Force Awakens, Disney Lucasfilm Press released four stand-alone novellas by Landry Q. Walker. All are subtitled Tales From A Galaxy Far Away, and are part of the same series as The Perfect Weapon. All four are…
Krampus Was Nice, But The Director Was Naughty
THIS CRITIQUE CONTAINS MULTIPLE MAJOR SPOILERS FOR THE MOVIE KRAMPUS, INCLUDING THE ENDING. ************************************* Michael Dougherty’s Krampus was an excellent concept that stumbled on execution, due in large part to the ending. It was a film I really wanted to love, and it was…
Early Look At Don’t Starve: Shipwrecked
Don’t Starve, the whimsical roguelike sandbox game that has drawn many comparisons to Minecraft, released the Early Access version of its new expansion on Steam. Though I’ve seen a few people on the forum mention crashes or minor bugs, my experience so far has…
