Category: Features

From Out of Nowhere: The Phenomenon of Stranger Things

July 21, 2016
9 mins to read

From Out of Nowhere: The Phenomenon of Stranger Things A single mother’s youngest son vanishes into thin air. The desperate search begins, but with very little clues to go on, time is running out. The missing boy’s three friends decide to hunt for him, ignoring the police chief’s stern warning to stay out of the …

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The Cutting Room – Sharknado 4: The 4th Awakens

July 21, 2016
2 mins to read

Five years after the East Coast was ravaged in Sharknado 3: Oh Hell No! Fin, his family and the cosmos have been blissfully sharknado-free in the intervening years, but now sharks—and ‘nados!—are being whipped up in places (and ways) least expected… Why we’re looking forward to this: Are we really up to a fourth Sharknado …

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Tattered Tomes: Stephen King’s Firestarter Revisited

July 20, 2016
11 mins to read

Sometime around 1983 I finally secured a copy of Stephen King’s Firestarter in the form of a dog-eared paperback barely held together by the binding. Upon opening the book for the first time, some of the pages at the front fell out of the book, and I thought about calling the library to explain what …

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Look Out For… Blighters by Tim Major and The Hidden Back Room by Jason A. Wyckoff

July 19, 2016
4 mins to read

Look Out For… Blighters by Tim Major “Blighters is a peculiar and somehow very British take on the alien invasion theme.” Them Blighters are everywhere. They fell out of the sky last year, great horrible armour-plated slugs with razor-sharp fangs. But ugly as they are, they give the ultimate high to anyone nearby: a blissful, …