Entertainment

Director Alexandre Aja’s (High Tension) new horror movie Crawl is not the sweeping epic filmatic game-changing masterpiece that will recue moviegoers from the never-ending siege which is super hero and computer animated movies (that heavy lifting might just fall on one Mr. Quentin Tarantino later this month). It’s not Citizen …

Adam Savage from Mythbusters has a new show on Discovery Channel. It’s called Savage Builds, and you can probably at least sort of guess what it’s all about given the title. Adam Savage is building stuff, with the help of some engineers, scientists, and what have you. He made an …

This week, I will probably be inadvertently pulling double duty in recommending something to stream this weekend. Not only am I going to be giving you a show to watch I think you will enjoy, I will also probably make some people mad in the process. For you see, I’m …

So I’m sure we’ve all heard the recent comments from Dave Bautista stating how he would never do a Fast & Furious type film noting he would “rather do good films”.  Well Dave, I’ve got a news flash for you. If “STUBER” is what you are bringing to the table instead, …

Roger Corman’s “Frankenstein Unbound” is a ridiculous, ridiculous movie. Sure, it’s already rooted in a strange story, and no “Frankenstein” film is without its quirks. Still, one could easily see this one and say, “Ho-lee mackerel!” Let’s look at some of the ways in which this movie is bizarre yet …

Last week while binge watching the third season of the hit Netflix show Stranger Things (specifically the superlative The Sauna Test episode), I wept. I mean I actually got a lump in my throat, my eyes began to profusely water up and my lower lip began to quiver. My poor …

In director/writer Ari Aster’s new film Midsommar groundwork is put in place for a real crackerjack of a horror story; Solid and believable characters are carefully drawn out by the wunderkind director of last year’s movie, Hereditary. An atmosphere is created and cultivated that is at once both believable and …

Lakeshore Records is set to release on July 26 the companion album to the recently released graphic novel Giraffes on Horseback Salad.  Written by pop culture historian Josh Frank (Fool the World: An Oral History of The Pixies), the vividly illustrated book that NPR’s “Fresh Air” has praised and Publisher’s Weekly called …

Charity Bomb & Strange Entertainment in partnership with Plex are proud to announce Strange 80’s – A Benefit for Mental Health. This star-studded rockumentary features performances and interviews with  Corey Taylor from Slipknot / Stone Sour, Noodles from The Offspring, Chris Kirkpatrick from NSYNC, Jesse Hughes from Eagles of Death …

Full disclosure time, people: I wear my “I Survived the 1980s” t-shirt proudly; I also am one of a dying breed that still possesses the power to make actual mix-tapes via the handy device us Generation X types (or are we referred to as “The Silent Generation” this month? I …