Mostly movie reviews , sometimes book reviews .
A middle-aged banker pays a sinister company to fake his death and remake him as a younger, handsomer man, only to find his new life as empty as the old one.
A young woman suspects a dying virtuoso pianist used a Satanic ritual to steal her husband’s body.
Ripley crash-lands on a desolate prison planet for violent men and discovers she has brought along something far worse.
Assassin Chow Yun-Fat takes one last job to save the sight of the nightclub singer he half-blinded, while the detective hunting him finds himself taking the killer’s side.
An enigmatic gunslinger plays both sides of a border-town feud for profit.
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.