Yes, there is a Vorhees mailbox because there’s a Voorhees house. It’s functionally the same as the Myers house in theHALLOWEENseries, but they act like this is a thing we know about. Oh yes, of course, the house that is still intact and unclaimed 13 years after its owner’s mass...
The above description doesn’t begin to explain this gem, with an amazing cast and fun “Easter Eggs,” tropes and toss-backs to specific musicals and stars. Watch the musical/dance numbers and 6 Episodes in any order, because the story doesn’t matter as much as the fun. SEASON 1 focu...
announced today a supersized Season of Screams programming event kicking off today, Friday the 13th, and featuring an epic lineup of new film releases, series, specials, and live watch parties on Shudder TV. The three-month...
As a partner of all law enforcement agencies across the reservation, I have asked the Cherokee Nation Marshal Service to offer its support to the Owasso Police Department in investigating Nex’s case. The facts relating to Nex’s death are not yet fully clear. We should take care to support...
Not my favorite installment in the FRIDAY THE 13TH series, but possessing some of the coolest moments in the franchise is FRIDAY THE 13TH PART 7: THE NEW BLOOD. After bringing Jason back to life in the previous entry (which I’ll be covering next Fri 13), in order to inject some new...
In conspiratorial tropes that are part of political action or authoritarian propaganda is a model that does one of two things; in the political realm the need to sway perception in the face of truth, in maintaining a authoritarian governance organization is required to maintain the hold on po...
Hurricane Childby Kheryn Callender (Scholastic Press, $17.99, 224p., ages 9-13, 9781338129304) Caroline Murphy has always heard that her birth during a hurricane cursed her with bad luck, and the story seems true. At the Catholic school she attends in the U.S. Virgin Islands, Caroline ha...
ScreeningThe Help This week I took my 13-year-old daughter (aka Mini Maven) to see the film adaptation ofThe Helpby Kathryn Stockett. Like many readers and viewers, I have mixed feelings about both the book and the movie;others have written eloquently about Stockett's debatable view of mid...
Years later, writing my MFA thesis, I used those stories as seeds for a novel, and began to question the tropes of my early writing as I went along. Cyrah, the rape survivor at the heart of the novel's historical narrative threads, came alive when I realized how absurd it was to not...