Trash & Treasures: Cat People (1982)
The 80s was mostly a good decade for horror remakes of old 40s/50s movies. Well, exceptions to every rule.
Vrai Kaiser
I'm Vrai Kaiser, writer by profession and analytic nerd for the love of the game. I've been published in online magazine The Alligator, and am currently working to get my first novel published. Here you'll find updates on my work, as well as pop culture analysis, recaps, and reviews. Commentary and requests are always welcome.
Trash & Treasures: From Beyond
We made it, somehow, to four years!
Trash & Treasures: Host (2020)
“The Zoom Horror Movie” kicks ass, actually.
Drunk Book Club – The Crow: The Lazarus Heart
You know that feeling when you can tell a book really means well and is also fucking up so hard?
Go Crows! The Internet’s Only Smallville Podcast – Season 1, Episodes 11-13
I was trying so hard to meet these episodes halfway I think I sprained something. They were still bad.
Trash & Treasures: Romeo Must Die
If nothing else, watch this for one of the few records of what a gifted performer Aaliyah was.
Trash & Treasures: Bad Ronald (w/ The Fifth Dollanganger)
This film is so 70s you can smell the proto-Satanic Panic on it.
Trash & Treasures: Bit (PRIDE MONTH)
Very earnestly, about as good as a movie about feminism written by a cishet dude could manage. Look, I’m not gonna turn down a trans vampire.
Bend the Rules, but Never Break Them: Individual growth and systemic oppression in Yu-Gi-Oh!
Yu-Gi-Oh! has always been a series about dichotomies. The premise draws from the same well of ideas about “shadow selves” that would go on to make Persona 4 such a hit with the next generation of edgelord teens, and the legendarily brutal edit job it received during 4Kids […]
Trash & Treasures: Codependent Lesbian Space Alien Seeks Same (PRIDE MONTH)
I want you to imagine: Plan 9 From Outer Space meets Clerks, and make it gay.
