Go Crows! The Internet’s Only Smallville Podcast – Season 1, Eps 2-4
Oops it’s not just an April Fool’s joke anymore. I couldn’t stay away from a show that’s such a direct forerunner of basically everything that defines teen genre soaps today.
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: Bathtubs Over Broadway
2019 has been a hell year and this is a balm of pure delight, so I can’t recommend it enough.
The Lighthouse Mixes Great Sound Design, Prestige Horror Tropes, and Fart Jokes
When you’re a horror fan for long enough, you tend to get rather specific about the subgenres that catch your interest. For example, you’d be amazed how many movies “a person slowly losing their grip on reality while buried under about six different metaphors, and also it’s kind […]
Drunk Book Club: The Phantom of Manhattan
AKA Love Never Dies AKA “that Andrew Lloyd Webber musical not even his biggest apologists can forgive.”
Trash & Treasures: Blood & Chocolate
I don’t know if this is a GOOD movie, but it is an absolutely heroic rewrite of the source material and I want a novelization of it.
Fall 2019 Premiere Reviews
It’s that time again. This season doesn’t have many ultra strandouts, aside of the stellar Stars Align, but there are a lot of strong midtier offerings. Like last season, I’m including links to every premiere review, not just mine.
Trash & Treasures: Ginger Snaps
I’m mad that we’ve now watched all the good female werewolf movies.
Vrai Watches Jupiter Ascending
A shoujo isekai classic for the ages.
Trash & Treasures: The Howling (w/ Jourdain Searles)
The theme for this year’s spooky season can be summed up as “WHERE ARE ALL THE LADY WEREWOLF MOVIES.”
Let the Right One In is a Queer Vampire Love Story
As VRV Blog appears to be somewhat of a defunct site at this point, I’m going to be migrating the pieces I wrote there over here in full for preservation purposes. 2008’s Let the Right One In was the counterweight to the Twilight fever of the 2000s: a vampire love story that […]
