Trash & Treasures: Magic Mike XXL
I never saw the first movie and I clearly made the right choice.
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.
WILD NIGHTS WITH EMILY is a Joyous Queer Reclamation of the Famous Poet
Wild Nights with Emily is an English major’s movie. I knew this even before Wikipedia confirmed for me that Madeleine Olnek, the writer/director (how rarely I get to write that phrase without a soul-destroying sigh alongside it), has a creative writing MFA—in fact, the film is an adaptation […]
Tiger & Bunny: Go For Broke! (The Consulting Analyst)
This series is made possible by a commission from Frank Hecker. You can find out more about commissions here. Intro / Previous Go for Broke! “To risk everything in the hope of having great success.” Origin: American, from the gambling game craps (y’know, like Guys & Dolls? No? Just me?). […]
Trash & Treasures: The Frighteners
It’s the best Peter Jackson movie. I SAID WHAT I SAID.
[Link] Rule of Rose is a Horror Gem That Deserved Better
[Did I mention I freelance for Fanbyte sometimes? At any rate, this is a piece I’m particularly proud of, and an update of when I wrote about Rule of Rose on this blog waaaaaay back in 2015. If nothing else, I’d say it’s surely a sign of how […]
Trash & Treasures: Dude, Where’s My Car?
Eyy, it’s the movie that The Hangover ripped off.
Spring 2019 Premiere Reviews
Yup, it’s that time again. This has been a pretty spare season for new full-length premieres, basically boiling down to “Ikuhara and some also-rans.” (Though barely anything that I actively hated, so.)
Go Crows! The Internet’s Only Smallville Podcast
This is what we do now, y’all. Ten years of trainwreck, with one really good actor playing the world’s gayest Lex Luthor.
Velvet Buzzsaw Ignores the Real Conversation About Reviews
Velvet Buzzsaw caught more than a few viewers sideways with a trailer that promised literally killer art that would’ve made Robert W. Chambers proud. The film itself, however, proved to be minimally interested in being a surreal, showy slasher. While several of the deadly setpieces are creative—an interactive […]
Drunk Book Club: Chrome
This book cover became a minor meme, but I don’t think most people believed it was real–or that it was, in fact, a landmark work of queer sci-fi. And also eye-poppingly terrible.
Fashionable Tinfoil Accessories 