archiveJanuary 2022

Asymmetrical-multiplayer survival horror (which is a mouthful that I’ll be referring to as AMSH from here on) could very well be entering its biggest year yet in 2022. Between the ongoing reign of Dead By Daylight (which will be implementing its Ringu chapter in the near future), Saber Interactive’s upcoming Evil Dead: The Game, and Gun Interactive’s recently announced Texas Chain Saw...

Renata Pinheiro’s sci-fi thriller King Car, which World Premiered at the International Film Festival Rotterdam, North American Premiered at Fantasia Film Festival, and U.S. Premiered at Fantastic Fest, is now in theaters and on VOD/Digital via Dark Star Pictures. Bloody Disgusting has an exclusive clip in which the car swerves to...

Asymmetrical-multiplayer survival horror (which is a mouthful that I’ll be referring to as AMSH from here on) could very well be entering its biggest year yet in 2022. Between the ongoing reign of Dead By Daylight (which will be implementing its Ringu chapter in the near future), Saber Interactive’s upcoming Evil Dead: The Game, and Gun Interactive’s recently announced Texas Chain Saw...

We’re now just one week away from the release of Scream, and the first round of social media reactions last night have sent expectations for the new movie skyward. It’s been called the franchise’s best sequel and it’s been said that it does Wes Craven’s legacy proud, and we can...

Paramount Players has assembled an all-star squad for their latest horror offering. While Julia Garner got her start in our genre, starring in films such as Martha Marcy May Marlene, Sin City: A Dame to Kill For, The Last Exorcism Part II, and We Are What We Are, her talent wasn’t...

As we learned late last year, Sony will be releasing the Ghostbusters Ultimate Collection on February 1, 2022, presented in collectible “ghost trap” packaging with lights, and including a full 220-page reprint of the rare 1985 “Making Ghostbusters” book. The collection will include Ghostbusters (1984), Ghostbusters II and last year’s...

While you continue waiting for the brand new Scream movie, Varèse Sarabande revisits Marco Beltrami’s masterful scores from the horror franchise’s first four films with Scream: Original Motion Picture Soundtracks. The 4-LP set—pressed on blood-red vinyl with black smoke swirls—dedicates a full album to each film and includes two hours of unreleased material! The box...

Late last year, Netflix made the surprise announcement that the Fede Alvarez-produced Texas Chainsaw Massacre, a sequel to Tobe Hooper’s original classic, will be slicing its way onto the streaming service on February 18, 2022, and we’ve since been provided with a teaser trailer and a couple of images. Today brings a new image,...

Late last year, Netflix made the surprise announcement that the Fede Alvarez-produced Texas Chainsaw Massacre, a sequel to Tobe Hooper’s original classic, will be slicing its way onto the streaming service on February 18, 2022, and we’ve since been provided with a teaser trailer and a couple of images. Today brings a new image,...

I’ll be honest. I hate setting New Year’s resolutions, especially concrete ones. Like, people are here resolving to make home-cooked meals three times a week, write a novel, become an astronaut…what are they thinking?! Sometimes I’ll give myself an extremely general guideline, like “do more of X” or “be less...

When you’re a baby, books aren’t just books. Books can also be play toys, chew toys, and occasionally even bath toys, which means that keeping books intact can be quite the challenge for parents and caregivers. As part of developing early literacy skills, it’s important that the youngest of readers...

Winter Wonderlands are fine and dandy for the first couple of days. But once the festive decorations come down, we’re left with the grey slushy of winter. Time to pull out the best travel comics to escape winter! You don’t have to splurge out on flights or stress over COVID...

Winter is perfect for snuggling up in your snuggliest blanket and settling down with a great comic. And while most of us have our favourite reading spot (and will fight for it to the death), finding the right comfies to go with it can be a little tricky. I love...

You know the social media trend where an author or fan drops some emoji-filled bullet points about tropes or other elements in forthcoming books? I have complex feelings about those. On the one hand, I don’t love this reductive approach to books. Books are more than just collections of tropes,...

In 2022, don’t anticipate that book challenges and wide-ranging censorship of books will slow down across the U.S. They’ll be amplifying, thanks to right-wing and extremist white supremacist groups like No Left Turn, Moms for Liberty, and dozens of state-based organizations, as well as dark money. State governments are packed...

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Prison censorship is nothing new, and with ever-shifting regulations about what books can and cannot be donated to libraries and individuals who are incarcerated, even organizations with the mission of getting books into those places are finding themselves surprised. South Central Correctional Facility (SCCF), a private prison managed by the...

Have you seen daily posts from people you follow on social media that look like a bar graph made of green squares? Welcome to Wordle, the daily game taking the word nerd world by storm. But what is Wordle and how do you play it? What strategies help you decipher...

One of the key findings from a new study by the Pew Research Center shows that 30% of Americans now read ebooks, up from 25% in 2019. The number of those who read a print book stayed the same in that time period, while audiobook reading increased from 20% to...

Britney Spears radiates "free woman energy" in a series of liberating nude photos. (Getty/Jamie McCarthy/Instagram/@britneyspears) Britney Spears celebrated her “free woman energy” by posting liberated selfies and sipping on her first glass of wine in 13 years. The pop icon took to Instagram Thursay (6 January) and opened up about...

Che and Miranda in And Just Like That... (HBO) And Just Like That… star Sara Ramirez didn’t join the Sex and the City reboot to represent a community. In a series where Big died on a Peloton, Miranda bordered on Karen-hood and Carrie peed in a bottle, Che Diaz has...

Titus Low. (Instagram) Only Fans star Titus Low Kaide, 22, was arrested by Singaporean police and charged with “transmitting obscene materials”. Low was charged with two counts of transmitting obscene materials via electronic means during an appearance in district court on 30 December.  According to The Straits Times, police received reports...

Tributes have been paid to student Harvey Parker, whose body was recovered from the River Thames. (Just Giving) Tributes are pouring in for Harvey Parker, a beloved friend, family member and “phenomenal” musician, after their body was discovered in the River Thames. The 20-year-old had been missing for three weeks...

Ahead of the RuPaul’s Drag Race season 14 premiere, the first 10 minutes of the new episode have been released on YouTube. The sneak peek introduces queens Alyssa Hunter, Bosco, Kornbread ‘The Snack’ Jeté, Willow Pill, Kerri Colby, June Jambalaya and Orion Story. The contestants stand around after their distinctive grand entrances,...

Sven Lehmann (Photo by Christoph Soeder / POOL / AFP) (Photo by CHRISTOPH SOEDER/POOL/AFP via Getty Images) Germany has appointed Sven Lehmann its first-ever commissioner for the acceptance of sexual and gender diversity. Green Party politician, Sven Lehmann, will be overseeing a national LGBT+ strategy in his new position, which...

Tilda Swinton attends the Cannes Film Festival, 2021(Getty for Kering/ Vittorio Zunino Celotto) Tilda Swinton has described spending her 20s in a “queer environment”, and said that she identified as queer “like a queer fish”. In 1986 Swinton worked with gay filmmaker Derek Jarman for the first time when she...

Nikita Dragun attends the 62nd Annual Grammy Awards at Staples Center on 26 January 2020 in Los Angeles, CA. (David Crotty/Patrick McMullan via Getty) Trans YouTuber and beauty influencer Nikita Dragun is part of the cast of new Netflix reality soap series Hype House. Hype House is a reality series...

Hands behind prison yard bars. (Envato/Stock image) A trans woman currently incarcerated in Texas could become the first American to receive gender-affirming surgery while in federal prison. Cristina Iglesias, 47, is a trans woman who has been incarcerated in Texas’ Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) for 27 years. Iglesias made...

Paris Jackson attends amfAR Gala Los Angeles 2021. (Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic) Queer musician, model and actor Paris Jackson has declared that she “wants to be a Marvel hero – or a supervillain”. Speaking to Variety Jackson, who stars in the new Hulu coming-of-age movie Sex Appeal, revealed that she’s a lifelong Marvel...

Who else but hosts Wendy Stuart and Tym Moss could “spill the tea” on their weekly show “If These Walls Could Talk” live from Pangea Restaurant on the Lower Eastside of NYC, with their unique style of honest, and emotional interviews, sharing the fascinating backstory of celebrities, entertainers, recording artists,...