Life has not been easy for Easy Rawlins. After losing a dear friend just a short while early (part of A Little Yellow Dog) he is grappling with a hard-won case of grief and guilt for not doing everything he could to save that friend … So, while he’s dealing with those big feelings (or […]
Read more "Anxious For Some Changes: Walter Mosley’s Bad Boy Brawly Brown"Sam Carpenter (Melissa Barrera) is coming home again. It’s been five years since she left Woodsboro behind her, but now her sister Tara (Jenna Ortega) has been brutally stabbed, so it’s time to go home, make amends, maybe reveal a family skeleton or two. She’s bringing her boyo Richie Kirsch (Jack Quaid) with her for […]
Read more "“How Can Fandom Be Toxic? It’s About Love!” Scream (2022)"Lana Rubicon is a strong, independent woman, used to heading multimillion dollar construction projects and land deals. So, when she’s diagnosed with brain cancer, she assumes the surgical method will remove the issue and she will be back in action in a matter of weeks. Six weeks tops. Her daughter Beth is less optimistic, but […]
Read more "Three Generations of Crime(solvers): Nina Simon’s Mother-Daughter Murder Night"When Estela lost her parents in a freak, unexplained accident aboard a New York subway, she was thrown into a system that pretended to care, but was ultimately powerless to do anything to help her. She was an undocumented immigrant, after all, because her father apparently never filed the proper paperwork to change their status. […]
Read more "No Hay Luz En Oscuro: Romina Garber’s Castle of the Cursed"When Shori attains consciousness, she has no memory of who she is, where she is, or what she is. She knows only the unrelenting hunger. It is satisfied at first by a surprisingly docile and self-sacrificing animal. Later, it is a human being who gets too close, who whispers words not of warning or fear […]
Read more "Parable of the Bloodsucker: Octavia E. Butler’s Fledgling"The beautiful Belgian tourist Hilde (Susana Taber) is enjoying a private cover, swimming and sunbathing when a snorkeler in the rubber wetsuit comes along. At first, she is pleased to see him—does she know him, perhaps? Then, the knife appears. Passing boater Zachary Kendall (Ricardo Vázquez) stops off to help, but the murderer has gutted […]
Read more "Marina! It Is Time to Feed the Fish: The Fish with the Eyes of Gold (1974)"Oscar Bataille (Fernando Rey) is a French prosecutor who specializes in violent crimes, pleading punishments for murderers and fiends to the full extent of the law. He’s been a big proponent of the guillotine death penalty. Over his career, Bataille has killed dozens in this way, saving society from the burden of supporting monsters for […]
Read more "Not So Violent Blood Bath: Penalty of Death (1974)"In a thunderstorm rocked manor in Louisiana, Lord Archibald Marian (Ángel Menéndez) reads a quatrain from his favorite book, Revelation, and soon discovers that his fate is intertwined with the message. Earth to bury us, water to drown, wind to buffet, and fire to burn. It’s a recipe for disasters, which will be realized when […]
Read more "A Killer Inheritance: Night of the Skull (1974)"Cecilia (Sydney Sweeney) felt lost after her church closed outside of Detroit. She’d survived terrible events in the past and felt God was protecting her for some kind of reason, but it was not clear what that might be. However, when contact came from Italy in the form of Father Sal Tedeschi (Álvaro Morte), offering […]
Read more "The Sinister Secrets of Our Lady of Sorrows: Immaculate (2024)"Molly and Michael’s Mom, their stepdad Dave and his daughter Heather are moving out of Baltimore. The parents are artists—she a painted, he a sculptor—and the idea of living in the country is appealing for many reasons. They found a lovely house complete with nice visual appeal, large grounds, an outbuilding for supplies and workspace, […]
Read more "Not-So-Invisible Fiends: Mary Downing Hahn’s Wait Till Helen Comes"
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