WHEN WE WERE ALL STARS: NOSTALGIA & THE INTERNET’S FORGOTTEN SMASH MOUTH MASHUP
By PJ Grisar At the tail end of 2016 in the chemtrails of a simpering frog named Pepe, the Memeosphere […]
THE MAGNIFICENT MURRAYTHON: PART II
By Brad Grandrino For all the ceaseless nostalgic love the 1990s gets from folks all over the internet, the decade […]
THE MAGNIFICENT MURRAYTHON: PART I
By Brad Grandrino There are certain hive-mind mentalities among film fanatics – circle-jerks, as they’re crudely though commonly called. They […]
PURE CINEPHILIA: A CHAT WITH CRAIG JOHNSON
By Kevin Redding If the movie really hypnotizes me, the sensation follows out into real life, and the world seems […]
‘AMERICAN SNIPER’ AND THE PRO-WAR, ANTI-WAR FILM
By Jon Comulada In the opening moments of Clint Eastwood’s American Sniper, we see an American tank and a squadron […]
FOR YOUR TV SCREEN ON CHRISTMAS DAY
It’s Christmas, folks, and you know what that means: The Taste Basket writers/holiday aficionados Kevin Redding and Dan Poorman have joined forces to create another […]
SOCIOPATHS, DRESSES, AND THE MECHANICS OF ACTING: CRACKING OPEN THE MIND OF BRAD DOURIF
By Kevin Redding Since the 1970s, actor Brad Dourif has made a career out of his chameleon-versatility in film, TV, […]
ON MONSTER MASHUPS
By PJ Grisar The modern monster mythos was born one rainy summer night in Switzerland when a teenage girl decided […]
‘THE SHAPE’ OF MY HEART: A LOVE LETTER TO CARPENTER’S ‘HALLOWEEN’ & THE SEASON
By Kevin Redding I haven’t yet seen the new Avengers: Age of Ultron trailer. I haven’t listened to much music […]
BLOOD, GUTS, AND GONZO FEMINISM: GILLIAN FLYNN AND THE ‘GONE GIRL’ HORROR NARRATIVE
By Dan Poorman Friends, Internet dwellers: There are many spoilers sprinkled throughout this essay. I have marked some in convenient BOLD […]
‘IT’ ALL STARTED WITH A VIDEOTAPE…
By Logan Metcalf Stemming from my childhood, there have been two constant phobias that have always plagued me. Unsurprisingly, they […]
A FRIENDLY #TUSKUSSION
DISCLAIMER: Dan Poorman and Kevin Redding would like to begin by apologizing for their current lack of a Podcast. In this case, it […]
THOUGHTS ON ‘OBVIOUS CHILD’
By Gina Mingione SPOILER ALERT!* *Even though Obvious Child has been out since June, I like to be considerate about […]
THE MAN IN THE BASEMENT: A Q&A WITH MATT SLOAN
By Kevin Redding Here’s an idea for a show: Two regular guys sit down on an old leather couch to […]
THE TASTE BASKET 