ELVES [Woeful Worship]: Tis the Season to Summon Demons! Fa la la la la!

Happy holidays, fellow geeks. While I had intended to look at a Lifetime Christmas movie (oh, worry not, I'll be hitting up those insane nuggets in no time), I took a drunken trip to 1989, where director Jeffrey Mandel unleashed the unintentionally shitty Elves into our yuletide lives. Do you love schlocky, shitty, what-can-only-mockingly-be-called-"horror" movies …

THROUGH A GLASS DARKLY: FEMINISM in “THE BABADOOK” and “UNDER THE SKIN”.

It's hard to argue the fact that when it comes to science fiction and horror, women tend to get short-changed. They're the ones to run around in the dark, groping for some sort of protection against a raving psychotic murderer, at once both the victim and hero (Scream effectively played with this stereotype, before ultimately …

MIKE TYSON MYSTERIES / OUIJA [Reviews]: Feat your eyes; Protect those ears!

Mike Tyson Mysteries could be the name of the book of Mike Tyson’s career path. He’s a former, undisputed heavyweight boxing champion that broke the rules inside and outside of the ring, ended up spending some time in jail and then went on to become a fully self-aware cameo joke — first in The Hangover …