This post contains spoilers for V/H/S/85 and The Black Phone. In two weeks, the story of the Grabber continues, as Black Phone 2 comes to theaters on October 17. Anyone who doesn’t want to wait until then can satisfy their curiosity by watching a totally different movie. Before casting Ethan Hawke as the Grabber, Mason … Read more
Jason movies aren’t supposed to be good. Heck, they weren’t even supposed to be about Jason. Back in the late 1970s, producer Sean S. Cunningham saw the financial success of Halloween and an opportunity to cash in himself. So he took out an ad for a movie called Friday the 13th, riffing on the holiday … Read more
On a morning walk at Pease Park, we explored the rebar-sphere Treehouse and Dambo troll–two playful, interactive works of art in the park.… Read More The post Playing at Pease Park: Treehouse and Dambo troll appeared first on Digging. October 05, 2025 Last week while my daughter was in town, we took a morning walk … Read more
This post contains spoilers for The Smashing Machine. Early in The Smashing Machine, a reporter tries to pry an answer out of Mark Kerr, the hulking ultimate fighting champ portrayed by Dwayne Johnson. The reporter wants to know how Kerr will handle losing a match, but Kerr finds the question utterly bewildering. Johnson furrows his … Read more
“The wound is the place where the Light enters you.” ~Rumi Before 2011, I had heard many spiritual teachers talk about “accepting what is.” It sounded nice in theory, like good mental information to chew on. But it didn’t feel embodied. I understood it intellectually, but I wasn’t living it. Then I attended a weekend … Read more
Despite our many advances in language technology and communication, entire languages disappear every day.… Think about how often you say “have” in a day. Maybe you “have” homework to do after school, you “have” a friend who’s going to study with you, and you already “have” the textbook at home. In English, you use the … Read more
Apart from the occasional remaster or alternative platform spinoff, Capcom’s Onimusha franchise has largely laid dormant since the release of Onimusha: Dawn of Dreams in 2006. Fortunately, the samurai action series finally makes its triumphant return next year with the eagerly anticipated Onimusha: Way of the Sword. Capcom unveiled a new trailer for the game … Read more
Well before she joined a team of half a dozen other filmmakers to bring V/H/SHalloween to spooky season, director Micheline Pitt was living it. Which is to say that like a lot of the genre fans who count horror as sacred ground, All Hallows’ Eve has always been a special time of the year. “I’m … Read more
This post contains full spoilers for Peacemaker season 2 episode 7. Peacemaker season 2 episode 6 has us expecting a blood bath. In the final seconds of that installment, we get confirmation that the “perfect” alternate world where Chris Smith was a hero with a loving family is, in fact, Earth-X, a universe in which … Read more
One of the most exciting aspects of the larger Star Trek universe is the opportunity for the franchise to finally tell different kinds of stories. Star Trek: Discovery catapulted the franchise into the far future. Prequel Star Trek: Strange New Worlds explores the origin stories of legacy characters from The Original Series. Star Trek: Starfleet … Read more