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Now that drummer Spencer Smith has officially left the band, Panic! At the Disco is the solo act of founding member/lead singer/musical wunderkind Brendon Urie. This isn’t a bad … Continue Reading Panic! At the Disco – Death of a Bachelor (2016)
If you are looking for a well written, fast moving psychological thriller in the vein of Gillian Flynn’s brilliant Gone Girl you will be entertained and satisfied with The Girl … Continue Reading The Girl on the Train – Paula Hawkins
This is not a review. This is a rambling attempt to process the movie and the road leading to it. The TL;DR version: it’s amazing. Probably 2nd or 3rd best … Continue Reading Star Wars: The Force Awakens (SPOILERS)
The original Poltergeist is one of my favorite movies. The 1982 Spielberg* classic (*Tobe Hooper did not direct this movie. I don’t care what the credits or anyone says.) mixes … Continue Reading Poltergeist (2015)
The final volume of Fables wraps up several plot lines and serves as a conclusion but not an ending. After all, the Fables are quasi-immortal beings and there will always … Continue Reading Fables: Farewell (Issue 150) – Written by Bill Willingham, Illustrated by Mark Buckingham
Mockingjay Part 2 closes out the best movie series of this decade, possibly the best this century so far. Series like The Hunger Games don’t come along very often. At … Continue Reading The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2
The night the fatal Georgia Flu arrives in Toronto, fading movie star Arthur Leander has a heart attack on stage performing the title role in King Lear. Jeevan, a paramedic … Continue Reading Station Eleven – Emily St. John Mandel
After Disney bought Lucasfilm and secured the rights to Star Wars they announced that new movies would be coming shortly. As I write this The Force Awakens is less than … Continue Reading Star Wars: Aftermath – Chuck Wendig
The basis for both the 1951 movie The Thing From Another World and John Carpenter’s much more faithful adaptation, 1982’s The Thing, (the less said about the 2011 remake/prequel the … Continue Reading Who Goes There? – John W. Campbell, Jr.
“This is how it will be when you drown.” Dead in the Water by Nancy Holder is about a ghost ship and the horror that befalls shipwreck survivors who board … Continue Reading Dead in the Water – Nancy Holder
A review is really unnecessary here. Just go buy/check out/borrow/steal Furiously Happy and get to reading. It is incredibly funny, incredibly moving, and really, really, REALLY funny. Did I mention … Continue Reading Furiously Happy – Jenny Lawson (The Bloggess)
Shirley Jackson’s last full length novel is a startling and unsettling peek behind the curtains of the house at the end of the street that is always dark. The one … Continue Reading We Have Always Lived in the Castle – Shirley Jackson
Live by Night is a crime saga focused on the characters, portraying them as more than one dimensional thugs. Most of them do what they do for a reason. Taking … Continue Reading Live By Night – Dennis Lehane
Elmore Leonard doesn’t write mysteries, not really. The reader knows what is going on ahead of all the characters. The fun is in watching the characters learn the truth, seeing … Continue Reading Riding the Rap – Elmore Leonard
The Fold is a hugely entertaining science fiction novel in the tradition of Michael Crichton’s Sphere as well as the Lincoln Child novel Deep Storm. Centering around scientists and very … Continue Reading The Fold – Peter Cline (Now with more review words!)
Pel Dalton spends his time by day as a supervisor of IT staff at a library, er, make that Learning Center, at a large University in England. By night he … Continue Reading Things My Girlfriend and I Have Argued About – Mil Millington
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