Mostly movie reviews, sometimes book reviews.
A low-level government clerk abuses the Orwellian bureaucracy he serves in pursuit of a woman he has never met.
As the end of the sixties looms, two alcoholic, unemployed actors talk their way into a Lake District cottage for a disastrous holiday.
An elderly Victorian inventor and his square-jawed American financier drill into a prehistoric world ruled by telepathic flying lizards.
An alien arrives in rural New Mexico intent on ferrying water back to his drought-stricken homeworld, and is undone by betrayal and gin.
A lineman, a single mother, and a French scientist are drawn toward the same Wyoming butte after separate encounters with visitors from the sky.
A fading TV cowboy and his stunt double drift through the summer of 1969, while the Manson family circles the Hollywood power couple next door.
A young working-class couple mortgaged to their ears on a rural semi-detached house discover their old, hostile neighbors wield otherworldly powers.
An oral history of the Sisters of Mercy’s rise from Leeds clubs through their debut album and subsequent implosion.
A college student visits the last man on an abandoned, kudzu-choked street and learns what lurks beneath the vines.
A grief-stricken man sees visions of a flapper-era woman at his Tennessee cabin—and discovers he’s not the first.