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Synopsis Amidst a super virus that ravages most of the world’s population, a tenacious microbiology student (Brian K. Millard) leads a small team through a rogue planned exposure. But the human trials end tragically, taking his friends’ lives one by one and leaving potential treatments untested. As he becomes more and more isolated, the line between what’s real and what’s not begins to blur. Review I’m a hard sell on genre films inspired by — and often made during — COVID-19 lockdown, mainly because of burnout on the subgenre at this point, so when a new film about a deadly virus comes along that offers something exciting and unusual with original ideas, it gets my attention. The most recent feature film to do so is director Anthony Bushman’s Psychopomp (U.S., 2024), a horror-adjacent science fiction thriller made by Bushman and his cowriter and costar Brian K. Millard during the lockdown. Millard delivers an absolutely riveting lead performance as Theo, who
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Warning! Spoilers! Well, it’s officially over. After five seasons of explosive whale carcasses, exploding heads, and enough psychological trauma to keep a stadium of therapists in business for life, “The Boys“ has taken its final, blood-soaked bow. While saying goodbye to Amazon’s flagship superhero satire hurts, we should all be profoundly grateful it didn’t become one of those franchises that get dragged behind the corporate cash-cow shed long past their expiration dates. Looking at you, “The Walking Dead.” Instead, showrunner Eric Kripke gave us an ending that wrapped everything up in a neat, heavily traumatized little bow. Let’s break down how the showdown went down. A Funeral, an Execution, and a Virus The finale’s emotional anchor kicked off with the crew burying Frenchie. Losing one of the show’s absolute best characters was a gut-punch, but it served as the ultimate catalyst. It finally lit a fire under the Boys’ collective asses to do what should have been done five seasons
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Official Synopsis In a near-future world, a lonely, physically challenged man purchases a companion robot to escape his isolation. But his own insecurities and a jealous brother threaten his chances of ever finding love. Review Films about robots interacting with humans and the possible dangers that could bring have been with us since the silent era. Technology brings such fare ever closer to science fact than science fiction. With his intriguing feature Personhood, writer/director/editor Richard Jordan examines emotional problems that may occur when “artificial humans” become lovers with human beings. Waylen (Elliot Harris) is a physically challenged man who viewers learn right away craves intimacy, and that initial scene shows him going about things in a privacy-invading manner. He seems to be highly successful in his professional life and he lives in a beautiful, spacious, well-appointed home. The beautiful Gala (Agathe Levi) arrives at his front gate and proclaims that she will be very happy. Because the synopsis states that
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Gunnar has once again teamed up with Alienware to take players’ gaming experiences and comfort out of this world! For those not familiar with our friends at Gunnar, they specialize in making glasses that have anti-blue light tech. Screens give off blue light that’s invisible to the eyes but can cause strain and fatigue for them. Gunnar’s glasses help block this light to allow those who look at screens all day to work in comfort. Gunnar’s glasses are used by pro e-sport players, gamers, the military, and even animators at Dreamworks. The Alienware Burmuda Triangle glasses are a wraparound shield lens that’s befitting the aesthetics of Alienware. The lens offers a panoramic view that is perfect if you have multiple screens with your rig or a large monitor. The nosepads are adjustable and move with the shape of your nose, allowing a comfortable fit. The lenses are scratch and smudge-resistant, and the arms proudly display Alienware’s logo. The glasses are
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IndieMoviesParanormalReviews
Something preternatural is taking place within the wicked walls of The Englewood theater down Missouri way! Enter: Kyle Jennings (Todd Norris, who directed and co-wrote the picture along with C. Wayne Owens… who has a roll in the film as well), a paranormal investigator desperate to prove his scientific worth to the university he’s employed by. Kyle, along with his Department Head/believer in the supernatural, Cass Charbonneau (Lisa Winegar), head out to the eerie Englewood (located in his ol’ hometown no less), and finds the theater to be managed by his old high school gal pal, Lynne Meredith (Audrey Crabtree)… who is one of two employees of the establishment along with projectionist Johnnie (Gina Tarantino). The ghostly presence wastes no time, as shortly after our hero’s arrival a campy action/horror film called Z is for Zombie begins playing on it’s own and the doors to the outside world are locked tight by an outré force! To make matters worse, during
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Scientist Meredith Weaver (Anna Zizzo) catches her hubby Jim Matthews (David Rommel) having an affair so she does what anyone would do in that situation… she infects him with her latest experiment that results in severe, uncurbable mutation. Meredith’s problem soon becomes everyone’s dilemma as her douche of a husband gains the ability to send forth monstrous versions of his various and sundry body parts to do the ol’ murder biz on anyone they choose… and given Jim’s ever increasing desire to eat live meat, that body count is going to rise quickly! Tom Berna’s Colony Mutation is like an early Cronenberg flick minus the Canadian tax breaks… but lack of funds did nothing to reduce this feature’s imagination! David Rommel is fantastic as our sleazy, horny, main character, and he really sells both the character’s smarminess as well as his ramping psychosis… not to mention how he relishes in his body’s new found ability to fuck up everyone’s day
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The Alaska Territory, 1947… it’s cold… real cold… it’s also up to it’s ass with an unreasonable amount of Yeti-committed murder. Among the possible victims of the beast’s absolutely ape-shit rampage are an adventurer, Hollis Bannister (William Sadler, Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey, The Shawshank Redemption, Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight), and an oil magnate by the name of Merriell Sunday Sr. (Corbin Bernsen, The Dentist and it’s sequel, the Major League franchise)… the son of which, Merriell Sunday Jr. (Eric Nelsen, 1883), assembles a rag-tag group of adventurers, including Bannister’s estranged daughter Ellie (Brittany Allen, The Boys), to bring ’em back alive… or get their ass handed to them by a crazed cryptid! Co-writers/Directors Gene Gallerano and William Pisciotta really go for the gold with The Yeti cats n’ creeps! What could be a standard creature feature becomes anything but under their guidance as we are thrown into a pulp fantasy adventure starring a Doc Savage and his
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GamingProductReviews
When it comes to walking sims, they pretty much all fall victim to monotony. The stories tend to always be the same, little else is going on, and most of the games copy one another. Tomorrowhead Studio’s WILL: Follow the Light may have fallen into this, BUT, have done it a little differently. WILL: Follow the Light follows Will, a lighthouse keeper who is searching for his son after a landslide took out most of their hometown. After learning that his estranged father took his son out to sea to fish during the disaster, Will sets sail in search of them, where he confronts the loss of his wife, his childhood, and his fears of turning into his father. Now, onto the game itself! When it comes to the controls, it’s mainly limited, but quick to learn, like most walking sims. I really enjoyed the game’s soundtrack, but I wish more of it played during the game, as it seems
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Film FestivalsForeignMoviesParanormalReviews
Earth to Colby (Canada, 2026) Official Synopsis An aspiring vlogger discovers a notebook detailing hidden portals in her hometown, leading her on a journey to discover the city’s supernatural history. After paranormal vlogger Colby vanishes, a documentary crew digs through her content and recovered footage to uncover the truth. What they find is her growing obsession with a strange coil-bound book and the escalating hauntings that followed. As Colby searches for a sign from her late father, friends and family reveal the chilling descent that led to her disappearance. Review Director/cowriter/cinematographer/editor Rino Mioc serves up an intriguing high strangeness faux documentary with Earth to Colby. Saylor McPherson gives a thoroughly engaging star performance as Colby, a young woman so fascinated with the paranormal that she centers her life around her vlog on the topic, despite the skepticism of her best friend Derrick (Casey Coston) and her mother Denise (Anne Hawthorne, McPherson’s real-life mother). Mioc, who cowrote the screenplay with Stephanie
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GamingNewsReviewsSci-Fi
Ever since the post-credits teaser at the end of The Dark Pictures Anthology: The Devil in Me, fans of the series, myself included, were interested to see how the game’s series will look as its latest instalment, Directive 8020, will take the series to the stars. I want to thank Supermassive Games for allowing me the opportunity to check out their latest in terror! Directive 8020 takes place on the ship Cassiopeia, which is heading towards Tau Ceti f, an Earth-like planet that humanity hopes to colonize as Earth is dying. The mission goes sideways when and extraterestrial lifeform, and one of the crew members, jeopardizes the mission. Now, onto the game itself! Returning players to the series will have to take a moment, as the controls have slightly changed, and the gameplay is a lot different and requires new mechanics now. Don’t let this deter you, as the controls are not that difficult to learn. In true Dark Pictures’
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Synopsis Amidst a super virus that ravages most of the world’s population, a tenacious microbiology student (Brian K. Millard) leads a small team through a rogue planned exposure. But the human trials end tragically, taking his friends’ lives one by one and leaving potential treatments untested. As he becomes more and more isolated, the line between what’s real and what’s not begins to blur. Review I’m a hard sell on genre films inspired by — and often made during — COVID-19 lockdown, mainly because of burnout on the subgenre at this point, so when a new film about a deadly virus comes along that offers something exciting and unusual with original ideas, it gets my attention. The most recent feature film to do so is director Anthony Bushman’s Psychopomp (U.S., 2024), a horror-adjacent science fiction thriller made by Bushman and his cowriter and costar Brian K. Millard during the lockdown. Millard delivers an absolutely riveting lead performance as Theo, who
Continue reading →
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Warning! Spoilers! Well, it’s officially over. After five seasons of explosive whale carcasses, exploding heads, and enough psychological trauma to keep a stadium of therapists in business for life, “The Boys“ has taken its final, blood-soaked bow. While saying goodbye to Amazon’s flagship superhero satire hurts, we should all be profoundly grateful it didn’t become one of those franchises that get dragged behind the corporate cash-cow shed long past their expiration dates. Looking at you, “The Walking Dead.” Instead, showrunner Eric Kripke gave us an ending that wrapped everything up in a neat, heavily traumatized little bow. Let’s break down how the showdown went down. A Funeral, an Execution, and a Virus The finale’s emotional anchor kicked off with the crew burying Frenchie. Losing one of the show’s absolute best characters was a gut-punch, but it served as the ultimate catalyst. It finally lit a fire under the Boys’ collective asses to do what should have been done five seasons
Continue reading →
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Official Synopsis In a near-future world, a lonely, physically challenged man purchases a companion robot to escape his isolation. But his own insecurities and a jealous brother threaten his chances of ever finding love. Review Films about robots interacting with humans and the possible dangers that could bring have been with us since the silent era. Technology brings such fare ever closer to science fact than science fiction. With his intriguing feature Personhood, writer/director/editor Richard Jordan examines emotional problems that may occur when “artificial humans” become lovers with human beings. Waylen (Elliot Harris) is a physically challenged man who viewers learn right away craves intimacy, and that initial scene shows him going about things in a privacy-invading manner. He seems to be highly successful in his professional life and he lives in a beautiful, spacious, well-appointed home. The beautiful Gala (Agathe Levi) arrives at his front gate and proclaims that she will be very happy. Because the synopsis states that
Continue reading →
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Gunnar has once again teamed up with Alienware to take players’ gaming experiences and comfort out of this world! For those not familiar with our friends at Gunnar, they specialize in making glasses that have anti-blue light tech. Screens give off blue light that’s invisible to the eyes but can cause strain and fatigue for them. Gunnar’s glasses help block this light to allow those who look at screens all day to work in comfort. Gunnar’s glasses are used by pro e-sport players, gamers, the military, and even animators at Dreamworks. The Alienware Burmuda Triangle glasses are a wraparound shield lens that’s befitting the aesthetics of Alienware. The lens offers a panoramic view that is perfect if you have multiple screens with your rig or a large monitor. The nosepads are adjustable and move with the shape of your nose, allowing a comfortable fit. The lenses are scratch and smudge-resistant, and the arms proudly display Alienware’s logo. The glasses are
Continue reading →
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Something preternatural is taking place within the wicked walls of The Englewood theater down Missouri way! Enter: Kyle Jennings (Todd Norris, who directed and co-wrote the picture along with C. Wayne Owens… who has a roll in the film as well), a paranormal investigator desperate to prove his scientific worth to the university he’s employed by. Kyle, along with his Department Head/believer in the supernatural, Cass Charbonneau (Lisa Winegar), head out to the eerie Englewood (located in his ol’ hometown no less), and finds the theater to be managed by his old high school gal pal, Lynne Meredith (Audrey Crabtree)… who is one of two employees of the establishment along with projectionist Johnnie (Gina Tarantino). The ghostly presence wastes no time, as shortly after our hero’s arrival a campy action/horror film called Z is for Zombie begins playing on it’s own and the doors to the outside world are locked tight by an outré force! To make matters worse, during
Continue reading →
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Scientist Meredith Weaver (Anna Zizzo) catches her hubby Jim Matthews (David Rommel) having an affair so she does what anyone would do in that situation… she infects him with her latest experiment that results in severe, uncurbable mutation. Meredith’s problem soon becomes everyone’s dilemma as her douche of a husband gains the ability to send forth monstrous versions of his various and sundry body parts to do the ol’ murder biz on anyone they choose… and given Jim’s ever increasing desire to eat live meat, that body count is going to rise quickly! Tom Berna’s Colony Mutation is like an early Cronenberg flick minus the Canadian tax breaks… but lack of funds did nothing to reduce this feature’s imagination! David Rommel is fantastic as our sleazy, horny, main character, and he really sells both the character’s smarminess as well as his ramping psychosis… not to mention how he relishes in his body’s new found ability to fuck up everyone’s day
Continue reading →
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The Alaska Territory, 1947… it’s cold… real cold… it’s also up to it’s ass with an unreasonable amount of Yeti-committed murder. Among the possible victims of the beast’s absolutely ape-shit rampage are an adventurer, Hollis Bannister (William Sadler, Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey, The Shawshank Redemption, Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight), and an oil magnate by the name of Merriell Sunday Sr. (Corbin Bernsen, The Dentist and it’s sequel, the Major League franchise)… the son of which, Merriell Sunday Jr. (Eric Nelsen, 1883), assembles a rag-tag group of adventurers, including Bannister’s estranged daughter Ellie (Brittany Allen, The Boys), to bring ’em back alive… or get their ass handed to them by a crazed cryptid! Co-writers/Directors Gene Gallerano and William Pisciotta really go for the gold with The Yeti cats n’ creeps! What could be a standard creature feature becomes anything but under their guidance as we are thrown into a pulp fantasy adventure starring a Doc Savage and his
Continue reading →
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When it comes to walking sims, they pretty much all fall victim to monotony. The stories tend to always be the same, little else is going on, and most of the games copy one another. Tomorrowhead Studio’s WILL: Follow the Light may have fallen into this, BUT, have done it a little differently. WILL: Follow the Light follows Will, a lighthouse keeper who is searching for his son after a landslide took out most of their hometown. After learning that his estranged father took his son out to sea to fish during the disaster, Will sets sail in search of them, where he confronts the loss of his wife, his childhood, and his fears of turning into his father. Now, onto the game itself! When it comes to the controls, it’s mainly limited, but quick to learn, like most walking sims. I really enjoyed the game’s soundtrack, but I wish more of it played during the game, as it seems
Continue reading →
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Earth to Colby (Canada, 2026) Official Synopsis An aspiring vlogger discovers a notebook detailing hidden portals in her hometown, leading her on a journey to discover the city’s supernatural history. After paranormal vlogger Colby vanishes, a documentary crew digs through her content and recovered footage to uncover the truth. What they find is her growing obsession with a strange coil-bound book and the escalating hauntings that followed. As Colby searches for a sign from her late father, friends and family reveal the chilling descent that led to her disappearance. Review Director/cowriter/cinematographer/editor Rino Mioc serves up an intriguing high strangeness faux documentary with Earth to Colby. Saylor McPherson gives a thoroughly engaging star performance as Colby, a young woman so fascinated with the paranormal that she centers her life around her vlog on the topic, despite the skepticism of her best friend Derrick (Casey Coston) and her mother Denise (Anne Hawthorne, McPherson’s real-life mother). Mioc, who cowrote the screenplay with Stephanie
Continue reading →
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Ever since the post-credits teaser at the end of The Dark Pictures Anthology: The Devil in Me, fans of the series, myself included, were interested to see how the game’s series will look as its latest instalment, Directive 8020, will take the series to the stars. I want to thank Supermassive Games for allowing me the opportunity to check out their latest in terror! Directive 8020 takes place on the ship Cassiopeia, which is heading towards Tau Ceti f, an Earth-like planet that humanity hopes to colonize as Earth is dying. The mission goes sideways when and extraterestrial lifeform, and one of the crew members, jeopardizes the mission. Now, onto the game itself! Returning players to the series will have to take a moment, as the controls have slightly changed, and the gameplay is a lot different and requires new mechanics now. Don’t let this deter you, as the controls are not that difficult to learn. In true Dark Pictures’
Continue reading →
