Mostly movie reviews, sometimes book reviews.
Facing failing grades and her ex-boyfriend moving on, a high-school senior goes from call girl to blackmailer to assassin.
To retain her medical license, Kay Francis hatches a plot to catch Napoleon-obsessed public enemy Humphrey Bogart and his gang of crooks.
A merciless Qing dynasty constable leads a dwindling squad to recover stolen gold and discovers, too late, that he has been descending into hell.
After the death of their imposing president, a company’s executives clash over who will assume control.
A composer staying at a villa to score a horror film suspects a killer when visitors begin disappearing.
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.
In 1780 London, William Blake finds himself swept into the Gordon Riots, only to discover the rioters’ enigmatic leader harbors a dark secret.