So Nice, I Had to Do It Twice: A Sinners Spoiler-lite review! 🩸

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It all comes full circle in Ryan Coogler’s Resurrection Weekend masterpiece, Sinners (Warner Bros. Pictures, 2025). Identical twins, in media res narrative, interconnected suffering, life, death and rebirth. Despite the social media Christian uproar about a horror film premiering the same weekend as Easter, I’d argue that Sinners is exactly the reason for the season. …

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Are you what you eat? Reflections on Consuming #DeadDoves After 10+ Years in Fandom

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When I first started reading fanfiction 12 years ago, fanfiction was still very uncool. I read fanfiction only under the cover of darkness or in public with a carefully dimmed screen. I shared my hobby only with my closest friends and only in hushed whispers. The combination of secretive embarrassment and youthful slyness was part …

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3×3 Horror Reviews from a Busy 3-Day Weekend

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Longlegs, Lovely, Dark, and Deep, and Arcadian. Much to my surprise, we are in fact, already in mid-July which means my long ago pre-planned long weekend has come and (mostly) gone. I took off Friday to sleep in after attending night 1 of Lucky Daye’s Algorithm tour, and surprise surprise: ended up at the movies. …

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