Mostly movie reviews , sometimes book reviews .
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 retired swordsman turned sculptor goes on the run after a clan leader blames a string of murders on his crystal statue, which has gone missing.
A one-eyed Bette Davis celebrates her wedding anniversary, ten years after her husband’s death, by tormenting her three grown sons and the women who love them.
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.