Here’s hoping your table is stuffed, your tree underflowing, and your family as loving and supportive as my own. For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord. And this shall be a sign unto you; Ye shall find the...

Michael Bay still has it. I’m just not sure what ‘it’ is. Somebody finally gave Bay a lot of money and said, “you know what, screw it, just go crazy with this,” and go crazy he did.  It’s only on Netflix, and maybe they paid for this film –...

First things first – I’ve never played a Witcher game, so I’m coming into Netflix’s Witcher series cold. Second things second – already cancelled my subscription over their recently announced “tee-hee, blasphemy” show, and now I’m just burning through the last few things that look remotely interesting before my...

Not gonna make it. Was hoping to hit 26 reviews over at the House of Castalia this year, one every other week.  In the end, I only managed to produce a total of 19.  Get ’em next time. The good news is that we end the year on a...

The long weekend gave me a chance to soak up some much need recharge time in front of the idiot box, and one of the more charming films to keep me soma-fied was…sigh…Nacho Libre? I know, but hear me out.  It’s Jack Black doing his Jack Black thing.  If...

Pee-yew!  How clumsy do you have to be to make the 101st Airborne raiding a Nazi-zombie factory on D-minus-one boring? You have to be JJ Abrams clumsy. That guy has turned into Michael Bey without the freewheeling fun.  He can string together two or three amazing visual sequences that...

The early reviews of  Overlook are in, and they are 100% positive: There’s at least one car chase so awesome, it needs a Hans Zimmer soundtrack. Joe has spent his life being forgotten. Not even the IRS comes for his back taxes. He’s a ghost, a perfectly average, perfectly forgettable...

Every once in a while Hollywood accidentally does something great on purpose. It’s basically cowboys versus cannibals with the sensibility of a Cormac McCarthy film.  The basic plot of a townswoman kidnapped and dragged back to the cave of the wild west CHUDS doesn’t do this thing justice.  The...

With thanks to the humble and brilliant king of the airwaves, AetherCzar, allow me to recommend a host of great reads for your digital shopping carts.  There are a lot of works on this list that have been moved from my “sooner or later” pile into my “bought and...

From all of us here at Mollison Manor, here’s to wishing you and yours a restful and blessed Thanksgiving. One of the great blessings of my life over the last few years has been the ability to share my stories and thoughts with all of you. My readers have...