Chris LaMartina‘s Spirit Tasting is off on a roadshow, and if you’re lucky to watch this movie on the big screen, I’m sure you’ll be celebrating festive cheers way before others. In this story, three former punks (Sean Doherty, Melissa LaMartina, and Trevor Wilhelms) toast their late bandmate at a distillery on New Year’s Eve. When a strange sommelier (Matt Lake) invites them to a top-shelf tasting, they discover there’s only one catch: Every bottle requires a “wish.” But as each of their desires twist into doom, these old friends discover that every pour at the Red Bat Distillery comes at a deadly price.
From the Press Release:
Director Chris LaMartina appeared last Friday, October 23rd, on The Last Drive-In with Joe Bob Briggs to screen his modern seasonal classic WNUF Halloween Special, and first noted there that his new film would be out before the end of the year. SPIRIT TASTING was formally announced this morning at Variety. This film was shot in just four days for $40K to celebrate his 40th birthday and he said this sobering horror/comedy is about life at its midpoint, in order to wrestle with the “what ifs” of the past and the aspirations of the future…
It’s the stuff every middle-aged adult has pondered at some point.
At the end of December, the season can feel less like a celebration and more like a rat race through consumer culture and obligation. When that happens, I like to suggest something radical in its simplicity: slow down. With this Studio Ghibli holiday guide, I’m sharing what I fallback to when looking for a way to make a full stop, destress and treat the break as it’s originally intended.
Horror and 
Image Comics
Hollywood Suite
With Yuletide here, we at Otaku no Culture wish everyone a very happy holiday! Instead of going ice fishing, we’ll be taking a slightly longer break for a much needed R&R.
Before the 21st century, not many animated yuletide themed works were made. Even in the theatrical front, there was lots of live-action material, but when all I craved were