Format once again ripped off shamelessly from the Librarian in Black: Books -- The Fraud, Systems Collapse, The Persian Boy, No Gods for Drowing, Wool, Exhalation, The Man Who Invented the Computer, Empire of Pain, And The Category Is..., Heart of Stone, A Deadly Education Comics -- Monica, Kill 6 Billion Demons, Webcomic Name, Daughter of the Lillies, Achewood Movies -- Godzilla Minus One, The Jade Raksha, Polite Society, John Wick 4, Guardians of the Galaxy 3, Shiva Baby, Spider-man: Across the Spiderverse, Vesper, Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, Center Stage TV Shows -- Monarch: Legacy of Monsters, Warrior, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, RuPaul's Drag Race, Loki, Slow Horses, Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities, Perry Mason, The Sandbaggers, The Only Murders In The Building, The Peripheral, Ted Lasso, The Mandalorian, Better Call Saul, Dungeons & Drag Queens, Cyberpunk: Edgerunners Albums -- Pillows And Prayers: Cherry Red Records 1981
Recently, my dreams have been particularly vivid and lengthy. The other day, I dreamt a whole movie, including going to see it and researching it later. I was at a Convergence movie showing among a raucous, late-night crowd, excited to see this cult movie from 1982 I’d never seen before, recently released in a restored Criterion edition. Pasolini (no relation to the director of The Decameron and Salo ) is the name of an ancient family that hunts demons from another dimension. They are trained from birth in martial arts by hand and sword (guns, bombs, grenades, etc. being useless against supernatural creatures), as well as espionage and tradecraft in order to discover shape-shifting demons in positions of power. Demon hunters also have limited ESP (like the Shadow or low-level Jedi), which they use to make mundanes forget they saw anything weird. Our protagonist is Eduardo Pasolini, the handsome and charming scion of the family. He has a slight air of melancholy due to a secret fea