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John Farrell

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/

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Interviews   -   Apr 23, 2023 Bringing the psychology of tabletop to screen with D&D web-sitcom The Party
Bringing the psychology of tabletop to screen with D&D web-sitcom The Party

I knew I needed to talk to the team behind the Party from its first line of dialogue. It’s a comedically academic screed about the artistic merit of musical bootlegs (incidentally, thrown in at the last minute of scripting), but signaled everything that the D&D-based web series

by John Farrell
Interviews   -   Apr 10, 2023 Terraforming Mars, Terra Mystica, and the boardgame adaptation revolution being spearheaded by Cobalt Knight
Terraforming Mars, Terra Mystica, and the boardgame adaptation revolution being spearheaded by Cobalt Knight

If there’s anything my examination of low budget filmmaking has taught me, it’s that nothing informs your output like the limitations restricting that work. Christopher Kaminski and Christopher Knox, have set themselves a task that, if not impossible, certainly defies conventional artistic wisdom. The flagship project of their

by John Farrell
Editorials   -   Mar 31, 2023 Forging empathy from chaos with Wormholes–Fandom Underground
Forging empathy from chaos with Wormholes–Fandom Underground

Wormholes is the kind of artistic miracle that can only happen when the right people are in the right place at the right time, when everything else is going wrong. This no-budget, universe-hopping sitcom was born out of the darkness of the 2020 lockdowns when Gamal ElSawah, Sajda Waite, and

by John Farrell
Editorials   -   Feb 20, 2023 A brief survey of Star Trek fan films — Fandom Underground
A brief survey of Star Trek fan films — Fandom Underground

A few years ago I wrote an editorial discussing the shocking majesty of Hidden Frontier, a no-budget Star Trek fan film that reached for the stars and became one of my favorite shows of all time. Since then I ate through every sequel and spinoff and made my way deeper

by John Farrell
Reviews   -   Jan 09, 2023 Gates of Delirium review—in madness lies clarity
Gates of Delirium review—in madness lies clarity

Gates of Delirium tries to meld a lot of concepts into a concise package, and it mostly succeeds at combining area control, set collection, and the horrific aesthetics of Lovecraft’s Yog-Sothothery. Gates of Delirium, like the rest of the world, doesn’t understand that Lovecraft’s stories were made

by John Farrell
Editorials   -   Nov 28, 2022 Rediscover Crystal Lake in Friday the 13th: Vengeance–Fandom Underground
Rediscover Crystal Lake in Friday the 13th: Vengeance–Fandom Underground

Friday the 13th has been quiet since its dubiously received 2009 remake, but a group of fans and professionals put that to right with two films that continue the legacy in all its violent, campy glory. Friday the 13th: Vengeance (2019) and its sequel Friday the 13th Vengeance 2: Bloodlines

by John Farrell
Editorials   -   Nov 26, 2022 Summoning Dream and Nightmare with Sandman 24 Hour Diner–Fandom Underground
Summoning Dream and Nightmare with Sandman 24 Hour Diner–Fandom Underground

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

by John Farrell
Editorials   -   Oct 29, 2022 Pushing the limits of time and space with Doctor Who Velocity–Fandom Underground
Pushing the limits of time and space with Doctor Who Velocity–Fandom Underground

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,

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