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In The Kings of Tupelo: A Southern Crime Saga, we meet Paul Kevin Curtis, a man whose life exemplifies the dichotomy of the American Dream: a glittering façade of success masked by severe isolation.

Curtis, born in Elvis Presley’s birthplace, became an Elvis impersonator, an act that evoked both nostalgia and longing. However, beneath the sequined veneer lies a mentality unraveling, anxiously searching for meaning in a world that feels increasingly conspiratorial and chaotic.

The decisive event of this narrative takes place within the sterile walls of a hospital morgue when Curtis discovers a grisly tableau: decapitated heads and dismembered body parts carefully cataloged like forgotten remnants of human existence.

This heinous finding plunges him into a labyrinth of conspiracy ideas, with each twist and turn reflecting an existential search for truth in a deceptive setting. What begins as a casual curiosity quickly becomes an obsession, a never-ending quest...

Mentions of organ trafficking, murder attempts, death, bullying, racism, and xenophobia.

Warning: major spoilers for Netflix’s The Kings of Tupelo docuseries

Netflix’s documentary miniseries The Kings of Tupelo takes a look at a wild series of events in the town of Tupelo, Mississippi, that peaked with an attempt to kill President Obama, and it’s full of shocking reveals and twists. Netflix’s catalog of true-crime documentary series continues to expand, and one of its latest additions is The Kings of Tupelo. The series takes the audience to Tupelo, Mississippi, the birthplace of Elvis Presley and thus home to many Elvis fans and impersonators, among them Paul Kevin Curtis.

After becoming widely known for his performances as an Elvis impersonator, Kevin Curtis began his own cleaning business, which led to a disturbing discovery. This was the beginning of years of investigation and countless conspiracy theories, and Kevin earned many enemies in the process,...

Netflix documentaries make us privy to the lives of various intriguing real-life characters who not only have eccentric personalities but end up doing things so bizarre that it becomes hard for others to understand their motives and intentions. The Kings of Tupelo: A Southern Crime Saga, is the story of Paul Kevin Curtis and how he was framed for attempting to assassinate the president of the United States of America.

Kevin might not have been great in academics, but his mother, Elois, had high hopes for him, and she knew that he would make her proud one day. Anybody who was born and brought up in Tupelo was obsessed with the King, Elvis Presley. Elois had once met the man in real life, and ever since then she hadn’t been able to forget about that encounter. Kevin, from a really young age, started impersonating Elvis Presley, and it could...

The first wave of anime to arrive in America was usually found in syndication, filler in the mornings and afternoons for the off-network stations in the New York area. It all started with Astro Boy but was quickly followed by Eighth Man and Gigantor, Kimba the White Lion to the Amazing Three. And then there was Marine Boy, the first of the color animated series to be broadcast in America. In his native Japan, the name translated to Undersea Boy Marine and was therefore Americanized.

Produced by Minoru Adachi and Japan Tele-Cartoons, there were 78 episodes in total and the first season or 26 episodes, have now been collected by Warner Archive, which is fitting since Warner was the company to distribute the series back in the 1960s.

Sometime in the future, there lived a boy, maybe 15, remarkable enough to serve as a full-fledged agent of the Ocean Patrol. Their mission was...

Alongside the heralded Speed Racer and Kimba: The White Lion, Marine Boy was one of the original handful of imported television series that captured youngsters’ imaginations and put Japanese anime in the stateside consciousness.

Now fans of the 1960s series, and an entire new generation of anime appreciators, can experience the undersea hero’s aquatic adventures as Warner Archive Collection distributes Marine Boy: The Complete First Season. Produced in Japan but intended for first-run syndication in the United States during 1966-67, Marine Boy was one of the first color cartoons to come from Japan. A teenager with some amazing inventions at his disposal, Marine Boy battles evil on and under the seas on behalf of the Ocean Patrol, aided by his father, Dr. Mariner, and the brilliant Professor Fumble. Joining Marine Boy in his missions are his white dolphin, Splasher, young mermaid friend Neptina, and fellow Ocean Patrol agents Bullton and Piper.

Drug dealers, serial killers, Satan worshippers and immortal Nazis are some of the ingredients of the bloody stew that is Ratline, a tough, well-made shocker from St. Louis-based regional filmmaker Eric Stanze. Ratline is not a “boo!” sort of horror flick. It’s not about stalkers in dark corners or monsters under the bed. It’s about the evil that men often do, if not necessarily in real life, then certainly within really nasty horror flicks like Ratline. It;s an angry, humorless film filled with sex and gore, but writer/director Stanze is not one of these independent filmmakers who;s simply in love with his own nihilism. He’s working from his own smart script that attempts to say something important about the murderous energies at loose in society. Ratline is not without flaws, but it’s an aggressively low budget piece of horror weirdness that defies expectations and is remarkably accomplished.