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My Favorite Movies 83: Perceval le Gallois (Eric Rohmer, 1978)
Eric Rohmer could easily be my all-time favorite film director. Granted, his movies are mostly just long psuedo-intellectual conversations between hot French twenty-somethings that are…
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Minor Key Monday 92: Depeche Mode – World in my Eyes
I’ve talked before about how little exposure I had to pop music growing up. With no radio and only my Astor Piazzolla and Baroque cassette…
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My Favorite Movies 82: The 36th Chamber of Shaolin (Chia-Liang Liu, 1978)
I am pretty new to Kung Fu movies–only really diving in after a Covid cult movie watching binge last year. Since then, I’ve watched many…
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Top 5 Most Evocative Horror Themed Board Games
Looking through my rather extensive collection, I actually don’t have a lot of horror games. Hundreds of fantasy board games, even dozens of Lord of…
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Minor Key Monday 91: Creedence Clearwater Revival – Sinister Purpose
As someone who never listened to the radio, I’ve got some massive holes in my pop culture knowledge and even in my 40s there are…
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Brilliant Board Games 3: Quadradius
I’ve been playing games regularly for 25 years, and in that time I’ve really dialed in on what I like and don’t like when it…
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The 5 Types of Black Metal Fans
Black metal is a silly genre of medieval posturing, unlistenable production aesthetics, and reprehensible personalities. As such, it is bound to attract a unique set…
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KVLTing the Silents 1: Dovzhenko’s Earth (1930) paired with Крюкокрест’s Ауфидерзейн
Silent films were never actually played silent–even prior to the 1900s they almost always had some manner of musical accompaniment. From a simple house pianist…
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My Favorite Movies 81: The Road Warrior (George Miller, 1981)
This MFM feature is getting dominated more and more by genre fare, but I’ve always been a sucker for the delights of genre, all the…
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The Top Five Most Brazen Heavy Metal Rip-offs
Metal [or, at least the metal I listen to] is a simple genre, and if a large part of your riffage is confined to a…
