To wrap up Black History Month, why not pick up a heavy hitter of a novel from one of the grandmasters of speculative fiction? Yes, Kindred has a weighty premise and an unflinching gaze at the horrible realities of the African American experience in the antebellum South, but it also has a lot of emotional […]
Read more "Seeing With Eyes Unclouded: Octavia E. Butler’s Kindred"When Bisman tires of his sickly wife, he murders her and blames santet (black magic). Because he is a businessman and gangster with quite a bit of power in his small, Indonesian village, Bisman convinces his thuggish allies that Quran reading Muslim priest Sarma (Novie Charndra) was responsible. Vigilante justice sees him burned for the […]
Read more "Never Listen to the Crocodile With a Woman’s Face: Santet (1988)"Taking a big step back from the 1960s for the sixth Ezekial “Easy” Rawlins book, Walter Mosley delves into the past when nineteen-year-olds Ezekial “Easy” Rawlins and Raymond “Mouse” Alexander are living in Houston Texas. As it turns out, Mouse is interested in putting down roots and marrying his sweetheart EttaMae, but he doesn’t have […]
Read more "Road Trip to Pariah: Walter Mosley’s Gone Fishin’"Mark (Terrence Howard) has a great life … until the day he doesn’t anymore. When he expects a promotion at work, he gets a pink slip instead. His wife Valentina (Valery M. Ortiz) takes their young daughter Jenny (Appy Pratt) for a check-up and discovers her leukemia has returned, their insurance didn’t cover much of […]
Read more "We Will Deal With It: Skeletons in the Closet (2024)"When Finn Wheeler (Sam Richardson) comes to the small town of Beaverfield Vermont, he’s got a good outlook for his new role as the area’s forest ranger. The first people he meets are kindly Jeanine Sherman (Catherine Curtin), whose B&B he will be staying in, visiting oil and gas man Sam Parker (Wayne Duvall), and […]
Read more "In a Dog-Eat-Dog World, You Can Be Nice or You Can Be Like Me: Werewolves Within (2021)"Lu knows he is special. A one in seventeen thousand birth. A miracle baby. He dealt with being teased as a kid, particularly by a fellow student named Kelvin Jefferson, but he fought back … and that bully wound up dropping out of school, maybe moving out to live with other family because of some […]
Read more "The Man, The Guy, The Kid, The One, The Only: Jason Reynolds’ Lu"Professor Bernard Hichcock (Robert Flemyng) is a renowned doctor who uses a special sedative formula on his patients to see them through difficult surgeries. That formula is also useful in his bedroom, rendering his wife Margaretha (Maria Teresa Cianello) corpselike so the wicked doctor can indulge his perverse fascinations with necrophilia. When he administers too […]
Read more "Gothic Perversions: The Horrible Dr. Hichcock (1962)"Orabella Mumthrope has been sold into marriage by an uncle who needs to pay off his debts. Her new husband, Elias Blakersby, has an estate in the country, far from the hustle and bustle of Bristol. Off to that estate Orabella goes, and there she will discover a house filled with servants and secrets, a […]
Read more "Here Comes the Bride: Donyae Coles’ Midnight Rooms"On a dead moon, the Kree’s new accuser Dar-Benn (Zawe Ashton) finds an ancient relic, a bangle of power. There are supposed to be two, but her soldiers have only found this lone specimen. Half the power is better than none, but this is nevertheless a setback for her plan to save the Kree home […]
Read more "Three to Topple an Empire: The Marvels (2023)"After encountering some bad men who took something that don’t belong to them, Robert McCall (Denzel Washington) makes his escape into the Italian countryside. However, a moment of overconfidence leads him to catch a bullet in the back. Pushing on as far as he can, Robert eventually surrenders to the pain and blood loss. Luckily, […]
Read more "I Understand Weakness. I Understand Pain. I Understand Death. I Understand Suffering. And I’m Starting to Understand Peace: The Equalizer 3 (2023)"
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