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Sep 28, 2023 | doomrocket.com | Arpad Okay

Required Reading is DoomRocket’s love chest, opened once a month to champion a book that we adore and you should read. The latest: Leo Fox’s Prokaryote Season, available now from Silver Sprocket. by Arpad Okay. The sickness is unlikely, and the cure even stranger. Sydney set off on a quest to save Laurelie, their lover, whom they secretly accidentally cursed in the first place. Prokaryote Season is a book of knights and wishes and fantabulist apothecary shopping lists.

Aug 24, 2023 | doomrocket.com | Arpad Okay

Required Reading is DoomRocket’s love chest, opened once a month to champion a book that we adore and you should read. The latest: All Talk, available now from Black Panel Press. by Arpad Okay. In the year 2023, the pulp tradition of crime perpetrated by idiots is still cooking. There’s no drama quite like a small-time crook biting off more than they can chew. All Talk is about gangster aspirations. It’s called a come-up when it’s pulled off.

Aug 22, 2023 | doomrocket.com | Arpad Okay

THIS REVIEW IS SPOILER-FREE. by Arpad Okay. It could all be metaphor, or none of it. He left the nunnery — exiled, really. Fell madly in love with the first brigand with whom he crossed swords. Life is hard on the margins; everything you’ve got, you’ve got to take. But life on the margins is heaven: robbing the tedious and having a quick one. The Chromatic Fantasy posits that all there is to life is pleasure. No, it doesn’t. Sorry, am I being clear?

Jul 28, 2023 | doomrocket.com | Arpad Okay

THIS REVIEW CONTAINS MINOR SPOILERS. by Arpad Okay. The first thing you’ve got to know about Junk Head is that Takahide Hori is a madman. The film’s writer and director is also its cinematographer and producer, and a hundred other roles. The movie is stop motion, which allows for the (practically) one-person production team. Junk Head is a wild vision of dystopian collapse, mutant body horror, and the inextinguishable human drive to pitch in when others need help.

Jun 26, 2023 | doomrocket.com | Arpad Okay

by Arpad Okay. This is RETROGRADING, where we know who we are, we know who we want, and ain’t nothin’ gonna change that shit. THE MOVIE: But I’m a CheerleaderTHE YEAR: 1999. The 90s were a decade of liberal family values, making it safe for kids to come out and yet somehow also socially acceptable to send them into heterosexual conversion programs. But I’m a Cheerleader was part of a new generation of filmmakers embracing and deconstructing traditions.