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A screenshot from The Substance with Demi Moore staring into a mirror with bold red lipstick and a red dress, gold earrings, and an intense look on her face

You Can’t Escape from Yourself: The Substance (2024)

By Orrin Grey • October 3rd, 2024

One of my pet peeves in modern horror films is when the central premise works only as metaphor, not as actual text.

Funeral Rites
Three characters stand in three separate panels each surrounded by various weapons.

Getting Lost in the Melodious World of the Ballads of Oræd

By Orrin Grey • September 27th, 2024

On the table next to the candle is a book that you don’t remember seeing before. The book itself feels at once familiar and strange, as though you have read it before, perhaps in a dream. The title is Ballads of Oræd.

Crop of the cover of the two-pack set of Clash of the Titans and Wrath of the Titans, with a sword weilding Kratos, a cyclops, and a pegasus riding Persues

No Gods, No Masters: When Titans Ruled Blu-ray

By Orrin Grey • September 20th, 2024

Clash of the Titans came out during the baffling moment when Sam Worthington was being cast as the lead in everything.

A screenshot from the trailer of Abigail where a masked woman and a young girl in a ballerina outfit are sitting in a dimly lit bedroom, about to make a pinky swear

“Abigail, Don’t You Think I Know What You’ve Done?”

By Orrin Grey • September 9th, 2024

Even without its marketing campaign sweeping any legs it might ever have possessed out from under it, however, Abigail was never destined to be any great shakes.

Cover Reveal: Orrin Grey’s Glowing in the Dark!

By Orrin Grey • September 4th, 2024

Peel your skin off and have a seat!

a screenshot from the trailer of Cuckoo with a woman in a blue jacket reflected in a window where someone in a red dress, a guy with a fancy watch and stubble, and a cowboy dad with a fist in the air look on

The Cuckoo’s Egg: Chimeras and Changelings in Cuckoo (2024) and Longlegs (2024)

By Orrin Grey • August 26th, 2024

Perhaps there’s something going on here; a thematic resonance, a moment in the zeitgeist, that will be teased out with the passage of time, subsequent viewings, and the work of other scholars.

I Played It, Like, Twice...
A closeup of the board for Scooby Doo 2 Monsters Unleashed, with a purple layout, comic drawing of the control room, bats, and skulls with peace symbols for eyes for some resaon

The Monster Race: Simple Times with the Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed Game

By Orrin Grey • August 12th, 2024

When it comes to comparing the Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed Game to any of the other Scooby-Doo games we’ve covered here, there’s really no comparison at all.

A crop of the box for the double feature The Unseen and the Uninvited, with an art deco painting mostly in shades of green with a man in a suit holding an unconscious woman while in the background a face with wide eyes stares and a shadow lurks

Uninvited and Unseen: Two Chilly Classics of the 1940s on Blu-ray Together

By Orrin Grey • July 26th, 2024

The success of The Uninvited hangs in the air around Lewis Allen’s 1945 follow-up, The Unseen.

I Played It, Like, Twice...
A picture of all the bits of Starquest Arcadia Build a Bot expansion, with some space pirate like minis with guns and computers as well as a red board and smaller space ship boards to move the minis around on

Space is the Place: Starcadia Quest and the Mystery of Aesthetics

By Orrin Grey • July 16th, 2024

It may be unsurprising to learn that Starcadia Quest is pretty much the exact same game as Arcadia Quest but in spaaaaaaaaaace!

626 Day
An incomplete jigsaw puzzle featuring Stitch from Disney's Lilo & Stitch.

This is Your Badness Level: Lilo & Stitch and Mental Health

By Orrin Grey • June 26th, 2024

As a weird kid myself, who grew up into a weird adult, it’s easy to see aspects of myself in both Lilo and Stitch – and I’m not alone.

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