Dan Baker

Dan works for the internet, writes, and does design stuff. He is mostly interested in genre film thanks to Star Wars and The Dark Crystal. He used to make short films in his basement before the internet even existed. He lives in the Pigsville neighborhood of Milwaukee, Wis.

Reviews, Streaming ReviewsOctober 27, 2015

Crimson Peak

By Dan Baker

There’s a point in every scary movie where things fall apart and they cease to be scary. Depending on what you’re actually afraid of, that could come very quickly. In…

ArticlesSeptember 10, 2015

Why Fantasy?

By Dan Baker

Until the last decade or so, good genre films were hard to come by. In the days of video rental stores, the fantasy and science fiction aisles were full of…

Reviews, Streaming ReviewsAugust 1, 2015

Tomorrowland

By Dan Baker

Tomorrowland has a simple message: stop being so negative. Yes, there are broader critiques of everything from a disaster-obsessed media to government regulation to dystopic science-fiction but this one message…