Mostly movie reviews, sometimes book reviews.
A lineman, a single mother, and a French scientist are drawn toward the same Wyoming butte after separate encounters with visitors from the sky.
Sent to a school for disturbed children after the accident that killed his baby sister, ten-year-old Joey returns home and insists his nanny, played by Bette Davis, means to kill him next.
Small-time crook Walter Matthau knocks over a podunk New Mexico bank for what should be a few thousand dollars, comes away with three-quarters of a million, and knows exactly whose money he’s taken.
A government program drops an Army pilot into a dead man’s last eight minutes aboard a Chicago commuter train, over and over, until he can find the bomber.
A globe-trotting archaeologist races the Nazis to find the Ark of the Covenant.
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.