Clash of the Titans might be my favorite remake since The Mummy. I remember watching the trailer for the 2010 film on repeat. It had a mix of hard rock to evoke … Continue reading Clash of the Titans (2010) Movie Review
Where were you the day Superman died? Superman Doomsday details the gruesome fight between two DC giants. One is a pillar of hope and justice while the other is hell … Continue reading Superman: Doomsday 2007 Review: Where Were You the Day Superman Died?
This review contains minor spoilers for Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: Season 1 Episode 2, “Children of the Comet.” It’s Uhura’s time to shine! After appearing in three seasons of … Continue reading Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: Children of the Comet Review
The story begins when Warner Brothers hired Zack Snyder to helm a Superman film. The last time we saw Superman was in 2006 with Brandon Routh as the titular hero. … Continue reading How Zack Snyder’s Justice League (2021) Became A Reality
The recent releases of horror remakes and sequels like Halloween, Scream and Texas Chainsaw Massacre ushered in the re-emergence of iconic final girls like Laurie Strode, Sydney Prescott, Gale Weathers, and Sally Hardesty. Their respective returns … Continue reading Final Girls Who Should Return for a Sequel
There’s a new Bat heroine in Gotham City, only she’s a little more willing to kill and no one knows her identity—including Batman. The Caped Crusader has his work cut … Continue reading Batman: Mystery of the Batwoman Review
It’s Christmas in May! I am glad the CW hit show Everybody Hates Chris was around when Unaccompanied Minors released in December, 2006. I might not have cared about watching … Continue reading Unaccompanied Minors-15 Years Later
Batman: Mask of the Phantasm explores the tragedy and isolation of Bruce Wayne, but Batman and Mr. Freeze: SubZero, its 1998 direct-to-video sequel, explores grief and loss differently and pushes Mr. Freeze … Continue reading Batman and Mr. Freeze: SubZero Review
Welcome to my informal review of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. I thought about writing something deep and well-articulated, but I have to be honest–I’m beyond excited to talk about … Continue reading Star Trek: Strange New Worlds- Thoughts and Musings
The tragedy of Bruce Wayne and his vigilante alter ego Batman is arguably one of the most infamous tales in all of pop culture. Even casual fans of DC’s Dark … Continue reading Batman: Mask of the Phantasm and the Tragedy of Bruce Wayne
Godzilla’s original debut was frightening; his cloud-shaped head loomed over the fleeing villagers of Odo Island in 1954’s Gojira, a dark and depressing film that made the sacred beast of the … Continue reading Godzilla vs. The Bureaucrats: Shin Godzilla Review
The Star Wars franchise features some memorable (and terrifying) Sith Lords, from the acrobatic and menacing Darth Maul to the imposing and mechanical Darth Vader, his sinister master Darth Sidious … Continue reading Star Wars: Ladies of the Sith
It sounds a little far-fetched. It seems outlandish. How would an Incan emperor, a Norse demigod, and a hotshot racing superstar have anything in common except all of them being … Continue reading What Emperor Kuzco Has in Common With Thor…and Lightning McQueen?
The opening scene of Star Trek: The Motion Picture is one of the coolest and eerie sequences in the franchise’s history, pitting the newly designed Klingons against an unstoppable entity hidden in … Continue reading Star Trek: In Defense of the Motion Picture
I’ve followed the career of Bill Lawrence with great interest. It started with his hit NBC show Scrubs which ran on NBC (and later ABC) from 2001 to 2010. After Scrubs, I couldn’t … Continue reading Bill Lawrence- A Television Maestro
The galaxy of the Star Wars is a massive one, with as many secrets as there are iconic planets and moons, not to mention the battle-stations capable of destroying them. … Continue reading Top Five Star Wars Planets
After watching the Marvel movies countless times, you begin to realize certain moments you missed: easter eggs, fun facts, and more. But the best part is when certain characters you … Continue reading Marvel Theories and Lightbulbs Post-Endgame
I’m currently watching Season 7 of ER, a long-running medical drama created by Jurassic Park‘s Michael Crichton, which aired on NBC for 15 seasons from 1994 to 2007. This is … Continue reading Underrated TV Characters: How ER’s Jeanie Boulet Stole the Show
The fear of the undead and ancient superstitions regarding the seemingly magical property of blood can be found in most cultures around the world. Early misconceptions over human body decomposition … Continue reading Ancient Vampires: Exploring the Cultural History of the Undead from Mesopotamia
In this episode of Straight Out of Home Video, Candace and Mack subject themselves to Disney’s Fox and the Hound 2, the 2006 sequel-midquel to the original 1981 film. The lovable … Continue reading Podcast Episode: Fox and the Hound 2
Over the past ten years, M. Night Shyamalan managed to make one of the worst-reviewed films in 2010 and collaborated with Will Smith and his son Jaden Smith for a … Continue reading M. Night Shyamalan: An Unexpected Yet True Underdog
“May the Brick be with you!” Today I’m reviewing the Nintendo Switch version of the biggest baddest (and I mean that in a good way) Star Wars game of the … Continue reading May the Brick Be With You- Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga Review
The horror genre is an unforgiving battlefield and even the most determined players can’t always escape death in the end and claim the mantle of Final Girl. For as long … Continue reading Five Victims Who Were Almost The Final Girl
Despite mixed reception, the 2018 blockbuster Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom opened to glowing box office returns. What is going to happen next? There was a lot of mayhem and chaos from the … Continue reading What We Can Expect From Jurassic World: Dominion
Join me in my first article for 1428 Elm as I rank all four of the major killers from the horror anthology series Slasher. Created by Aaron Martin, each season … Continue reading Ranking the Villains from the Canadian Horror Anthology Series “Slasher”
For two seasons, Fringe featured The Walking Dead actor Kirk Acevedo as FBI agent Charlie Francis. Charlie was a close friend of series protagonist Olivia Dunham (Anna Torv before she starred in Netflix’s hit show Mindhunter). … Continue reading Fringe: Why Kirk Acevedo’s Charlie Francis Left the Fox Show
In Season 1 of ABC’s crime drama The Rookie, Afton Williamson (The Night Of, Banshee) played Los Angeles Police Department officer Talia Bishop. Throughout the first season, Bishop served as the training … Continue reading The Rookie: Why Afton Williamson’s Talia Bishop Left the Series
Throughout The Hunger Games series, written by Suzanne Collins and the films adapted from the books, much attention is placed on the victors of the Hunger Games, a brutal competition to the death … Continue reading Which Hunger Games District Had the Most Victors?
Okay, so you can make the argument that there are other showrunners, producers, and writers that someone can easily challenge me on the assertion that Eric Kripke is the Steven … Continue reading Why Eric Kripke Might Be The Steven Spielberg of Television
Where would the horror genre be without our iconic killers? Freddy Krueger, Jason Voorhees, Michael Myers, and Chucky have been slicing and dicing victims since the 1980s and are some … Continue reading Five More Underrated Female Horror Villains
After five seasons and 100 episodes, it was time for the hit sci-fi series Fringe to throw in the towel. Created by J.J. Abrams, Alex Kurtzman, and Roberto Orci, Fringe premiered on Fox in … Continue reading Fringe: How the Cult-Hit Fox Show Ended
Leave it to Disney to predict the future of Internet culture. In 1997, it released Flubber, a remake of its 1961 flick, The Absent-Minded Professor. Flubber is a science fiction comedy film starring Robin Williams, Marcia … Continue reading Sorry, Tumblr, Flubber’s Weebo Did Reaction GIFs First
The Rookie shocked fans when the series killed off major character Captain Zoe Andersen (Mercedes Mason) during its first season. Season 1 Episode 16, “Greenlight,” delivered plenty of action when Andersen … Continue reading The Rookie: Why Mercedes Mason’s Zoe Andersen Was Killed Off
What a treat it has been to see the cast of Stranger Things grow since the show debuted in 2016. The cast made waves in amazing projects outside Hawkins while … Continue reading Stranger Things Season 4 Trailer Breakdown
One of the things I love about playing the 2005 version of Star Wars: Battlefront 2 (which I still maintain is one of the best Star Wars video games of … Continue reading Why Star Wars Battlefront 2 (2005) Is A Timeless Classic
It all started with an article in the Economist last Fall about the HBO series Succession, in which the author writes how the show breaks the cardinal rule of featuring … Continue reading Podcast: TV Shows Where We Hated All the Characters
On July 1, 2010, The Last Airbender burst into theaters. Over the years, I have brought up the film in conversation, and people’s eyes roll in either anger, sadness, disdain, disgust, evil … Continue reading The Last Airbender Film Retrospective
It’s a great time to be a horror fan. Chucky, the latest installment in the Child’s Play franchise, recently wrapped its first season while the fifth entry in the Scream film series releases … Continue reading Slasher: The Executioner Review
New Year, New Spies. With the release of The 355 around the corner, Candace, Vanessa, and guest Waffle Mack look at why we love the espionage genre. They talk about … Continue reading Favorite Fictional Spies (Besides James Bond) And Why We Love Them
If the filmmaker bug was an energy drink or the energizer bunny, Shawn Levy, at a young age, was miraculously bitten by it and drank it all the way to … Continue reading Shawn Levy: A Captivating Creative
With her striking beauty and sharp features, Adele Dazeem…..ehhh, sorry…Bazine Netal, makes an intriguing figure, one who graced the silver screen for mere seconds in Star Wars: The Force Awakens … Continue reading Star Wars Needs More Bazine Netal
Chris Van Allsburg is a literary genius. If I were to give a TED talk explaining who this author is, I might be successful in convincing the masses of this … Continue reading The Polar Express- A Timeless Classic
I believe I discovered this film when it was playing on television. I was blown away by Will Ferrell’s charm and the amount of Christmas cheer the film had to … Continue reading ELF Film Review- A Marvelous and Magical Christmas Tale
Spider-Man: No Way Home is one of the few films Marvel has produced that could be considered exemplary art. I love Marvel as much as any other geeky guy, gal, … Continue reading Spider-Man: No Way Home Review
As a young child, I was not alone in believing the legend of Santa Claus. He was larger than life and exuded much joy and happiness. However, some of the … Continue reading Arthur Christmas Film Retrospective- Ancient Christmas Secrets Revealed
Gather around the campfire, Waffles. In this episode of Killer Waffles, Bri and Mack are joined by special guest Robert from Crooked Table to discuss the recent renaissance of the horror genre … Continue reading Killer Waffles Podcast Episode- Horror Franchises Turned TV
It’s a time of celebration in the 100 Acre Wood! Mack joins Candace from the Straight Out of Home Video podcast to discuss A Very Mery Pooh Year and their … Continue reading Straight Out of Home Video Podcast Episode: A Very Merry Pooh Year
Jennifer L. Armentrout’s newest novel, A Shadow in the Ember (ASITE), took us all by storm. The first installment of the prequel series Flesh and Fire predates one of my favorite series, … Continue reading A Shadow in the Ember – Review
Dune is the most captivating film of 2021 by far. As someone who grew up reading the book by Frank Herbert, I always felt distasteful about the prior attempts at … Continue reading Dune – The Cinematic Experience
This comedic talent, whimsy, wackiness, and raunchiness of Danny McBride has delivered the goods for over 15 years. I could go on about how great he is in the voice-acting … Continue reading Danny McBride- A Comedic Mastermind
Watch out, Bitizins! Elle Woods is in the house. Welcome to another Saturday Bitlife Challenge. This week we’re delving into the world of Legally Blonde—-Bitlife-style. The requirements for this challenge … Continue reading Bitlife Challenge Guide: Legally Blonde
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