Anthony McCoy (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II) was a painter with talent, earning a show right out of school. In the ensuing few years, he’s fallen into a slump, unable to find a topic to inspire him. That topic comes out of a ghost story told by Troy Cartwright (Nathan Stewart-Jarrett) during a dinner party. Although Troy’s […]
Read more "Reflections and Refractions: Candyman (2021)"Nameless finished his adventure in the third volume of his second series, Kaleidoscope, with a burning need to know what was going on with his mysterious handler, Ace of Diamonds. He was therefore put in contact with a fellow agent of the mysterious organization and arranged for a face-to-face meeting in a couple of days. […]
Read more "Now I Have the Truth; Ho, Ho, Ho: Dean Koontz’s Corkscrew"In 1923, the small town of Rosewood, Florida was shaken by festering hatreds in the neighboring town of Sumner reaching a boiling point. The residents of that town were familiar with the hatreds—Rosewood was a town where African Americans owned their own land and lived a decent life, while Sumner was poor and predominantly white—but […]
Read more "Glimpses of Heroism Amidst Horrific, Historic Tragedy: Rosewood"This is another Cairo, a place that has risen to power long before the novel opens in the year 1912, due to the return of magic, the djinn, and the rise of strange technologies. This is a city to rival the great ones at the turn of the twentieth century. In some ways, it is […]
Read more "He Is Returned: P. Djèlí Clark’s A Master of Djinn"Evil came into Galveston in the 1890s, aboard a ship that ended up very much like the Demeter ended up in Bram Stoker’s Dracula though with one major difference: a young girl survives this little slaughter. The girl grew up (played as an adult by Deborah Winters), she grew old, and she dwelled somewhere outside […]
Read more "Rub You the Right Way: The Lamp"When Rowan (Lee Marshall) finds herself in a secluded cabin with her coworker and friend Emily (Lauren Beatty), she had expectations for some kind of connection. We are never quite sure what, but the clues point toward something intimate. However, Emily’s husband Brendan (Aris Tyros) is already there and surprised to have a third wheel […]
Read more "People Are Strange When You’re a Stranger: Bleed With Me"After the third installment of the second season of Dean Koontz’s Nameless series left readers with a few dangling hooks and questions, does the author does charge ahead into answers or offer an attempt to resolve those matters? Nope. Instead, we get a mostly self-contained story about Nameless pulled into an accidental mission. A mother […]
Read more "A Side Quest On The Road Of Life: Dean Koontz’s Light Has Weight, but Darkness Does Not"The year is 1898, and Jesse Lee (Mario Van Peebles) is stuck in the Army’s 10th Cavalry, permanently enlisted in order to escape the noose after being found guilty of assault charges in retaliation to his father’s lynching. While serving with the Buffalo Soldiers in Cuba during the Spanish-American War, he and his beleaguered unit—including […]
Read more "We All Got To Go To Hell Sometime: Posse"For the third volume of their Tensorate series, Neon Yang shifts the focus away from the Sanao twins that dominated the first two volumes and delivers an intriguing look inside the ways of the Tensorate itself. Our point of view character is an investigator, Tensor Chuwan Sariman, an investigator looking into a strange tragedy at […]
Read more "“Who Needs Familiarity When You Are Being Led By A Prophet?”: Neon Yang’s The Descent of Monsters"Peace and love were done by the end of the 1970s, and what followed flower power was a decade of greed, hatred, and horror. We must’ve brought some of this home with us from the jungles of southeast Asia like a flu bug or an STD. After all, the famous serial killers showed up after […]
Read more "His Brain is Squirming Like a Toad: Killer’s Delight"
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