“The Last Man Standing” • Vincent Price, Vampire Hunter
It’s a film that’s part horror relic, part philosophical thoughtI experiment, and entirely haunted by empty streets and existential dread.
May 5, 2025
It’s a film that’s part horror relic, part philosophical thoughtI experiment, and entirely haunted by empty streets and existential dread.
The Big Doll House delivers everything the genre promises—sweat, rebellion, and sleaze—but under Jack Hill’s direction, it’s also a scrappy, surprising ensemble piece that knows exactly when to play it straight and when to smirk.
Here’s the thing about to-do lists when you have ADHD: they lie. They whisper sweet nothings like “You just need to get started” and “It’s
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“Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore” is a novel for book lovers, sure. And maybe even more so, it’s a novel for _format_ lovers, for those of us who thrill at the medium as much as the message.
Everything Is Tuberculosis is a book that starts with a subject so unsexy—so dusty, so clinical, so thoroughly dismissed to the corners of American memory—that
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“Yeah. This is that thing where we live too much in areas of concern over which we have no influence or control.”
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