David Whitman

A ★★★★½ review of Carlito's Way (1993) Carlito (Al Pacino) has just been released from prison after dodging major drug charges. His super sleazy coke head lawyer (Sean Penn) sets him up with a nightclub to run. Not one person thinks that C...

John Leguizamo on what it was like to work on this memorable film classic from Brian De Palma:

“It’s an odd experience to be a Latin man in a Latin story written by a Latin man and the lead guy’s a white guy pretending to be Puerto Rican. I’m not going to lie, it’s surreal. It was surreal.’

faraz shanyar

Edmund Joseph Sullivan
from The French Revolution by Thomas Carlyle, Vol. II
1910

Helen Stratton
illustration from The Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen
1899

Ephraim Moses Lilien
from Jugend magazine
1900

@neguse.house.gov gives a lesson on how to reframe a journalist’s stupid question about #SNAP! 💪🏼

Jason Limon

It still blows my mind how quiet they are on the MAGA side when the Shitgibbon talks like this. Surely their silence means that they are on his side. Imagine agreeing with literally everything a leader says and still being able to look at yourself in the mirror as if you have a personality.

oil painting by Jamie Wyeth
1972

A ★★★★ review of Pumpkinhead (1988) A group of teenagers are messing around on motorcycles outside at a secluded general store. One of them accidentally kills the son of the owner Ed Harley (Lance Henrikson). Ed seeks out an old mountai...

“I was, to my detriment, such a film snob as a teenager. Because of this, I missed many genre movies as I rolled my eyes at the VHS box way back when. I was a close-minded fool.”

A ★★★★ review of Mad Monster Party? (1967) Baron Boris Von Frankenstein (Boris Karloff) is retiring from the monster making business.  He invites all the monsters to the Isle of Evil (I love evil) for one huge mad monster bash and to name a su...

Very entertaining stop motion film with creatures all designed by Mad Magazine’s Jack Davis.

I got something similar about a year ago where she’s suddenly asking me what I’m writing. I immediately ignored because I knew she couldn’t be real.

"Mostly, I straddle reality and the imagination. My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane."

-- Tom Waits

Gahan Wilson

luna ana

Yes.

:)

A ★★★★ review of Whoever Slew Auntie Roo? (1972) Mrs. Forrest (Shelley Winters) holds a Christmas party at her huge mansion for orphaned children every year. She’s completely insane, keeping her mummified child in a tiny coffin while she sings lulla...

A trashy and supremely entertaining modern retelling of Hansel and Gretel.

earl norem

Charles Bennett
1861

sam heimer

Bernie Wrightson cover for Swamp Thing
1977

painting by Frank Kelly Freas
for Analog magazine
1973

ian miller

todd schorr