Mostly movie reviews , sometimes book reviews .
Vacationing wife Barbara Stanwyck races the tide to keep her husband from drowning, and the only man she finds is escaped convict Ralph Meeker, who sees something he wants.
Mobster Jack Nicholson falls into a chemical vat and emerges with white skin, green hair, a rictus grin, and a plan to remake Gotham City in his image.
When the company loses contact with a terraforming colony on the planet that cost Ripley her crew, she returns with a squad of Colonial Marines who are nowhere near prepared for what they find.
A space freighter crew falls prey to a deadly alien lifeform they unwittingly bring aboard.
A break-in awakens the dormant skills of a mild-mannered suburban dad, who soon finds himself at war with the Russian mob.
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.