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/
Part I: Webelo and the salvation of history
Webelo is a lot of things at once. The movie respects history and community while signaling a bright future. Its heart is grounded in the independent scene, but with an ambition and craft that looks outwards to greater things. Comedy and tragedy,
Pennsylvania’s Bodhana Group is one of the first and only organizations to examine the clinical impacts of tabletop RPGs. Even before reading their literature and research on the topic, you’ll find a lot of parallels between running tabletop RPGs and modern talk therapy. Both contain innumerable soft skills
Shure is already well known for a line of microphones that are reliable for podcasts and professional recording, but one doesn’t always need the bells and whistles of the MV7, or have the $250 to invest in recording hardware. Enter the MV6, a $149 option that will more than
Molli and Max is a meeting of opposites melds opposing forces like nothing I’ve seen before. In genre, tone, character, color scale, and technology, it epitomizes the heart of true romance: finding a home in the absurd, sometimes impossible challenges of life. In doing so, it makes itself a
Bunkers & Badasses Deluxe Edition is a surprisingly high quality release for fans of Borderlands. If that sounds like a back-handed compliment, it’s only because this review comes out at a difficult time for the franchise. It’s been a while since an official game release, and though Borderlands
Clone Cops is a difficult movie to discuss for the same reason that it ends up being so interesting: it takes a long time to show its full hand. Its premise, that American policing has been privatized and farmed out to a series of clones, packs a ton of comedic
Blackstar celebrates independent black, brown, and indigenous artists from outside the industry, and in many places outside the country. I saw films covering a huge variety of genre and tone, but all resonated with similar themes. They explored the weight of living under colonized rule and the liberation that comes
Somewhere in the world a bell tolls, a city drowns, and something wakes in the deep. The Flood Bell Tolls in Saint Magnus is a system neutral gothic setting that packs more quality and ideas into its 84 pages than many boxed sets I’ve seen. St. Magnus is a
