John Farrell is an affordable housing attorney living in West Chester Pennsylvania. He once travelled the weird west as Carrie A. Nation in Joker's Wild at: https://jokerswildpodcast.weebly.com/
Well before Neil Gaiman’s nightmarish fantasy comic was adapted by Netflix, recent film school graduates set out to adapt the source material in all its beautiful and horrific glory. This was back in the days when Joseph Gorden Levvit’s failed film adaptation was an early rumor, when Nicholas
Buried as it is between the mountains and the desert, Boise Idaho doesn’t have much of a film industry. What it does have, secreted among its streets in the often child-cluttered rooms of an unassuming house, is one very strange thing in common with the TARDIS: that, just sometimes,
In the Joker’s long career, he has strayed far from his origins as a criminal mastermind. Oh, he commits a lot of crimes in modern interpretations, but from the anarchist with a cause to the deranged loner to the wisecracking psychopath, people have been less interested in seeing how
Crow’s supernatural revenge thriller is a dark urban fairy tale replete with some of the finest and most effective artistry I’ve seen in years. If you give one fan film a chance to succeed, try Crow. This foray into James O’Barr’s world of gothic horror is
photo credit: Justin Mane’s Crow, 2022
You might not believe me, but the modern groundbreaking filmmaking isn’t coming from major studios. The most heartfelt, intelligent, and thought-provoking work I’ve seen in the last few years was all made by unofficial channels by people who otherwise might never
Roleplaying games often overlook the value of wildlife, presenting them as combat encounters first and integrated into a setting’s logic second. I spoke with Pearse Anderson about his project Critters & Companions, a setting neutral RPG supplement focused on bringing weird creatures to the forefront of adventures or setting
Fear, hunger, and peril await those who tarry in the dying universe of Death in Space. Dripping with all the atmosphere that its characters desperately lack, this game sets as the cosmic crunch pulls everything towards its end, the dark force of the Void emerges to corrupt the remnants of
Tales From the Loop has had an interesting life span. Simon Stålenhag’s depictions of a lost age of horror and technology was at the same time otherworldly, nostalgic, futuristic, and evocative. Too stirring was its setting to be left alone, it has been adapted into an RPG that I
