Mike Burr is a dedicated social democrat, handyman, and physical science teacher who currently resides in the Deep South. He can often be found prowling the streets of his neighborhood with his canine companion, wreaking havoc on property values. A recent addition to his has necessitated moving most of his movie viewing online. Some current picks from his queue include Out of the Furnace, Blue Ruin, Prince Avalanche and This Must Be the Place. Mike has written mostly about music, and has interviewed everyone from Bootsy Collins to Josh T. Pearson to Jay Reatard to Katy Perry. He is excited to be trying his hand at film reviews, even though his last try ended in an internet beef with Wil Wheaton.
The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo is a legitimately bad cartoon, but it’s also close to Halloween, has Vincent Price and is currently being offered on Amazon Prime.
It is an unexpected treat this Halloween season that Frost is in Truth Seekers, a Prime series dropping a first season of eight episodes on October 30.
Underneath all the monsters and mayhem in Mystery Incorporated, the core of the show is the sometimes irrational love we have for the animals in our lives.
The Hollywood Handshake has mutated from merely an uncomfortable intrusion of alpha maleness to a show stopping event and subject for interstitial sketches.
The documentary King Cohen: The Wild World of Filmmaker Larry Cohen offers a retrospective on the man, his work, and the idiosyncrasies that made both great.
