It’s not easy being an astronaut: studying vectors, fuel consumption reports, star charts, and demonstrating fast reaction times, all while piloting a 135-ton space vehicle roaring against the unrelenting pull of Earth’s gravity. What happens […]
GRUMPIRE INTERVIEWS! SPECIAL: GREGG ARAKI AND THE TEENAGE APOCALYPSE
GRUMPIRE 22: All For the Low Price of $6.66 Justin Harlan provides us with this special interview with filmmaker Gregg Araki, and the impressions below: As I noted in my first piece on the Teenage […]
HOW TO EPITOMIZE A GENERATION WITHOUT REALLY TRYING: THE STRANGE SYNCHRONICITY OF ‘BETTER OFF DEAD’ (1985)
Is it perhaps a bad portent that I’m about to kick off my entry in Grumpire’s “Gen-X Essentials” series by quibbling over semantics? No matter. I’ve never let those stop me before. And in this […]
‘Shooting tadpoles at the moon’: Introducing the Teenage Apocalypse Trilogy
In the early to mid ’90s, I hit my teen years: the impressionable years in which many of us begin discovering the art that shapes our tastes and aspects of our personalities for years to […]
MIXTAPE: GRUMPY ’93
1993: the year hip-hop “conquered the world,” the year Britpop proved a fast grab, and the year female voices grew exponentially in a variety of genres from pop to alternative to indie. In 1993 grunge […]
GRUMPIRE CHRISTMAS SPECIAL WITH JAY ALARY
Grumpire 21, Christmas 0 Joining us for Christmas from The Great White North is Grumpire Assistant Editor, Jay Alary.
CHRISTMAS IS GOING TO THE DOGS
Earlier this week we published a piece examining the celluloid representation of the Christmas Spirit in relation to Charles Dickens’ seminal novella A Christmas Carol. The author noted that dogs often epitomize the Spirit of […]
Let’s Put The Industrialist Back in Christmas: a contemplation on ‘A Christmas Carol’ films
Every Christmas film is an autobiography of the Spirit of Christmas. Well, essentially at least. The vast majority of Christmas movies, which most likely at this point bear the Hallmark or Lifetime insignia on them, […]
Mad Tidings of great despair
The Christmas tradition is one of hope and cheer, a time for us all to come together in the spirit of peace and love and forget about our troubles in the name of fellowship and […]
BLOOD AND BUTTERFLY COLLARS: ‘DRACULA’ 1979
Dracula is one of the most popular literary characters ever conceived, a masterful synthesis of history and supernatural fiction, as written by Irish novelist Bram Stoker in the classic Victorian epistolary novel that has chilled […]
GRUMPYR HALLOWEEN SPECIAL FEATURING COWBOY CODER
GRUMPIRE 20 Welcome ghouls to the Grumpyr Halloween Special! Tonight we are going trick or treating with nerdcore musician Cowboy Coder! But beware! Because there may be more tricks than there are treats…. Cowboy Coder […]
NEW IN ACTION: OCTOBER 2022 (HAUNTED-HOUSE ROUND-UP II)
Welcome to the 2nd annual Haunted-House Round-Up! This month we’re deviating a bit and taking a few liberties on what 1) constitutes “new” and 2) how much “action” might make an Action movie. But it’s […]
Timeless Twin TV Titans of Terror: The Night Stalker and The Night Strangler
This piece is dedicated to the memory of my mother, Sharon Alary (1949-2022), my childhood curator of all things morbid, chilling, and spooky… When I was five years old, I remember my mom taking me […]
EVIL DIES AT THE APPROPRIATE MOMENT
Times The Halloween Franchise Should Have Ended, Ranked From Worst To First The Halloween franchise concluded with Halloween Ends, at least that’s what the title would have us believe. Do I believe it’s over forever? […]
YOU ARE NOT YOUR COTTON CANDY GUN™: A RE-EVALUATION OF ‘KILLER KLOWNS FROM OUTER SPACE’
“PT Barnum said it so long agothere’s one born every minute, don’t you know” – The Dickies Editor’s note: Originally this article was going to be a true-to-life Piss-Take. I have spent several adult years […]