Animal Crossing fans, this one is for you. Disney Dreamlight Valley was released in early access last week, quickly becoming the central focus of a corner of the internet dedicated … Continue reading Disney Dreamlight Valley Review: Hello New Obsession
Four months ago I wrote a post titled: Final girls who should return for a sequel. True to the nature of the horror genre and the current renaissance of horror remakes … Continue reading Final Girls Who Should Return for a Sequel part 2
Vampyr is a 2018 action role-playing video game developed by Dontnod Entertainment. Players assume the role of the recently turned vampire and prominent blood transfusion specialist, Dr. Jonathan Reid, as he traverses London … Continue reading Vampyr Video Game: Tips and Tricks to Owning the Night
An unsuspecting couple fears for their lives after accepting a rideshare from an unhinged driver with a lust for murder and a twisted sense of justice. In Dawn, from director Nicholas … Continue reading Buckle Your Seatbelts and Say a Prayer: Dawn Horror Film Review
The latest blood-soaked entry in the Pretty Little Liars franchise, based on the series of books by Sara Shepard, was released on HBO Max and delivered plenty of scares and … Continue reading The Past Never Dies: Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin Review
Sometimes They Come Back is the type of movie I describe as a comfort horror movie. It’s not too scary, it’s a made-for-tv film, with a high school teacher as … Continue reading Revenge is a Dish Best Served Dead: Sometimes They Come Back Review
The horror genre is in a renaissance of remakes and sequels (for better or worse) which means iconic horror movie villains like Michael Myers, Chucky, and Ghostface have another chance to … Continue reading Horror Movie Villains Who Should Return for Another Film
Animal Crossing: New Horizons is one of the best games in the series. The graphics and attention to detail are gorgeous, and the sheer amount of freedom and customization available … Continue reading Five Mod Ideas for Animal Crossing: New Horizons
Star Wars has an interesting history around the franchise’s female villains. Most of the ones who appear onscreen in the nine-film saga are minor characters with little development, like Attack of … Continue reading Star Wars: Five Female Villains from Legends
Werewolves are among the most iconic monsters of popular culture, who’ve terrified and enthralled audiences for generations as we try to piece together a realistic portrait of the creatures from legends … Continue reading American Werewolves: Horror Documentary Review
When I tell people my favorite Star Wars character of all time is Zam Wesell, I usually get a mix of responses ranging from “oh that’s dope,” to “who?” to … Continue reading Star Wars: In Defense of Zam Wesell
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, developed by Bethesda Game Studios, was released in 2011 and continues to see a thriving community of gamers and modders a decade later. The world … Continue reading Five Underrated Skyrim Mods
Hope and Mack join Candace on the Straight Out of Home Video Podcast to talk about Disney’s 2003 animated sequel 101 Dalmatians 2: Patch’s London Adventure. While we didn’t like the … Continue reading Straight Out of Home Video Podcast Episode: 101 Dalmatians 2: Patch’s London Adventure
Happy Pride Month! There’s been a shift in the past decade for LGBTQ+ representation onscreen. While there’s still plenty of work to do when it comes to authentic representation, especially … Continue reading Top Five LGBTQ+ Television Icons
The Star Wars franchise is home to some of the most powerful individuals in all of pop culture. Most of these individuals are either members of the heroic Jedi Order … Continue reading Star Wars: Top Five Female Dark Side Users
“The evil that men do lives after them,” Robert Burns repeats the quote from Julius Caesar in the documentary Rondo and Bob as he struggles to imitate the emotions of Marc Antony in a … Continue reading Rondo and Bob: Horror Documentary Review
This post contains minor spoilers for Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 1, Episode 3: “Ghosts of Illyria.” After 60 years, Number One (Rebecca Romijn) has an onscreen backstory! The … Continue reading Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: Ghosts of Illyria Review
This post contains minor spoilers for The Night House and conversations about grief, loss, depression, and suicide. Sometimes we think we intimately know the people who populate our inner circles … Continue reading Underrated Horror Movies: The Night House
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 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
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
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
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
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
“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
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?
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
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
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
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
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
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
When you get down to it, most of the iconic killers in the horror genre are male, besides a few exceptions. This isn’t to say female villains aren’t iconic or … Continue reading Five Underrated Female Villains in the Horror Genre
In this challenge, you’re everyone’s best friend… until you’re not. Welcome Bitizens! Bitlife released a challenge this weekend and I wanted to give you some tips ans tricks on how … Continue reading Bitlife Challenge Guide: Friend to Foe
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