Before That Happens, Though, Something Else Does: Christine Morgan’s Trench Mouth

Fathom Five is a state of the art, undersea research facility populated by science geeks, maintenance personnel, and a few security officers. Their mission is a secret one, privately funded. An exploration of the feasibility of shifting mankind and its society off the landmasses and into the oceans. While this might evoke undersea bubble cities, […]

Nightmare Pregnancy: Huesera: The Bone Woman

Valeria (Natalia Solián) and Raúl (Alfonso Dosal) are finally taking the next step in their relationship, and the good news is they’re expecting. Cells that will eventually make the leap into a little girl are even now growing inside of the mother, and the changes that come with this are arriving as expected. Morning sickness, […]

Brother, Brother, Brother … What’s Going On? Da 5 Bloods

When they served in Vietnam, Otis (Clarke Peters), Eddie (Norm Lewis), Melvin (isiah Whitlock, Jr.) and Paul (Delroy Lindo) found a crashed plane containing a shipment of CIA gold, payoff for intelligence sources. Instead of returning to base with it, they heeded the suggestion of their friend, commander, and ally Stormin’ Norman (Chadwick Boseman) to […]

Down but Not Yet Out in Chicago: Michael La Ronn’s Dead Rat Walking

Cyrus is not in a good place, emotionally speaking. After losing the girl of his dreams, he’s been camped out on his sister Becca’s couch, spinning his wheels and listening to ancient love songs from a bygone band and era. His sister is pissed, his mother is irritated, and he’s been given the steel toed […]

Knock & Wait: The Other Side of the Underneath

On the bleak Welsch countryside, a woman is fished out of the sea, near to drowning, possibly from suicide. She is soon transported to a clinic for help. However, the help she receives is rather unhelpful. What follows is a series of moments, scenes, skits, and sketches that vary from the utterly absurd to the […]

Finger Lickin’ for the Pickin’: Kenzie Jennings’ Reception

Ansley is about to enter a special level of hell. Fresh out of rehab, she’s not going to chill out at home. Nosir. She’s on the way to the wedding for her sister Shay and some dweeb named Nathan. Shay was her parents’ darling child, while Ans is the wild child black sheep. Shay could […]

I Am Special, I Am Loved, I Am Enough, I Am Doing My Best: Sissy (2022)

It was a chance encounter for Cecilia (Aisha Dee) to run into her childhood bff Emma (Hannah Barlow) at the corner mart. When they were kids, they were inseparable, but all that changed when they were eleven or twelve and they drifted apart. Emma doesn’t seem to recall the specifics, but Cecilia sure does. Like […]

Shawna the Vampire Slayer: Black as Night

That awkward summer teenager Shawna (Asjha Cooper) had to deal with getting breasts, she also discovered the real reason not to walk home alone in her city of New Orleans. It’s not because she’d get accosted for change from homeless folks. It’s because of the attacks going on, gangs of killers taking down those homeless […]

Walking Down Mean Streets: Nicole Givens Kurtz’s Glitches & Stitches

Kicking off a science fiction mystery series is not as easy thing to do. Readers need to connect with the protagonist enough to want to sit with them for several books, but the worldbuilding must also manufacture a setting readers will want to return to. Set in the same universe as Givens’ Cybil Lewis SF […]

I Need to See More, Feel More: From Beyond (1986)

When Dr. Crawford Tillinghast (Jeffrey Combs) took the role of assistant to decadent genius Edward Pretorius (Ted Sorel), he never imagined their collaboration would end with gruesome death and sanity blasting revelations on the eve of their success. However, it certainly did after the mad scientist device known as The Resonator broke the barriers between […]

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