The James Webb Telescope continues to bring the universe closer to us, but there have been other and even bigger science stories this year. Click below for a few of these. They’re more hopeful than much of the rest of the news.
Author Archives: JD DeLuzio
R.I.P., Aline Kominsky Crumb
Aline Kominsky Crumb, a major figure in the Underground Comix movement, died November 29, 2022, at the age of 74.
She is survived by her husband, Robert Crumb and their daughter Sophie, also comix artists of note.
Book Review: Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century
After I killed my wife, I had twenty hours before her new body finished printing downstairs.
Kim Fu, rising literary star (For Today I am a Boy, The Lost Girls of Camp Forevermore), has written a collection of short stories that mostly fall into SF/fantasy/horror genres, reminiscent of The Twilight Zone and Black Mirror.
October Countdown: Nope (2022)
The night is upon us! The finale of our haunted Halloween Countdown, 2022, features two very different productions. We start with summer’s super, sinister hit.
The 2022 hit film features a pair of animal-wrangling siblings, a goofy tech guy, an old-school cinematographer, and the troubled manager of a roadside attraction. This disparate adult Scooby gang becomes embroiled in an otherworldly mystery out in the California desert.
It’s a little reminiscent of Spielberg, except you don’t want to look up in awe at the sky.
Nope.
October Countdown: The Velvet Vampire
We often include a Hammer Horror film or cult film in our October countdown: this one almost qualifies for the first category and definitely suits the second. The Corman factory decided to cash in on the success of Hammer’s contemporaneous vampire films with softcore erotic elements. Stephanie Rothman, the rare woman among the era’s exploitation filmmakers, co-wrote and directed this frequently interesting but tonally incoherent flick about a young couple invited to stay with a mysterious woman, Diane LeFanu (Celeste Yarnall), who is…. gosh, see if you can guess:
(a) a vampire
(b) bisexual
(c) all of the above
(d) it’s (c), right? Is it (c)? I bet it’s (c)!
Doctor Who Review: “The Power of the Doctor”
The Doctors returns!
October Review: Howard’s Mill (2021)
Like a down-home Bermuda Triangle, an abandoned patch of land outside a small town in rural Tennessee becomes the site of several unexplained disappearances. Will an intrepid crew of low-budget filmmakers solve the mysteries, or be the next to vanish?
October Review: X (2022)
Ti West’s deranged and frequently effective horror movie concerns a group of amateur filmmakers who rent a remote farmhouse to shoot a low-budget porn film.
Unfortunately for them, they’re characters in an entirely different kind of movie.
Amazon will not renew Paper Girls
Despite decent ratings and generally positive reviews and audience response, Amazon will not be renewing Paper Girls. The series, based on the acclaimed graphic novel, featured a solid cast and stayed true to the spirit, at least, of its source material.
The series is currently shopping for a new home.
Artemis Launch, Take Two– SCRUBBED!
NASA’s second attempt to launch the Artemis I Moon Mission takes place at 2:17 p.m. EDT on Saturday, September 3. Although the capsule contains no humans, it represents a step to returning astronauts to the moon and beyond. Details on the Artemis missions may be found here.