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"Seven friends rent a mansion for a weekend to celebrate a birthday. Elise (Larsen Thompson) and her besties Haley (Harriet Slater), Madeline (Humberly González), Paige (Avantika), Grant (Adain Bradley), Lucas (Wolfgang Novogratz), and Paxton (a wildly entertaining Jacob Batalon) have run through their supply of beer and are searching for a stash in the rental […]
Read more "Putting the Fatal in Fatalism: Tarot (2024)"After their fateful encounter with slasher evil in Woodsboro, Sam Carpenter (Melissa Barrera), Tara Carpenter (Jenna Ortega), Mindy Meeks-Martin (Jasmin Savoy Brown), and Chad Meeks-Martin (Mason Gooding) have relocated to New York City to pursue school and life away from their tragedy. Sam is not having an easy time of things. She is seeking therapy, […]
Read more "Big Apple Slices: Scream VI (2023)"In a certain part of Denver, there is a courtyard that holds four houses. Two of them are empty now, but when they were first built, they belonged to a quartet of sisters who had done plenty of traveling over their surprisingly long lifetimes: The sisters had come most recently from wooded, green, and rainy […]
Read more "A Family Saga with Bones in the Cellar: Melanie Tem’s Wilding"When the FBI discovers the US is being flooded with counterfeit hundred dollar bills, their best analysts trace the funny money to Hong Kong. It’s time to call in a specialist agent to crack the case. As it turns out, Cindy (Cynthia Rothrock) went to school in HK, has plenty of contacts there, and can […]
Read more "Blonde Fury: Lady Reporter (1989)"Oh, the weather outside is frightful … The strangest storm to hit this particular Australian trailer park in a while has arrived, bringing booming thunder and brilliant flashes of lightning. It’s 2AM and Patrick (Brendon Rock) is still up and awake, listening to the radio playing “Sleepwalk” and waiting for something, trying to figure something […]
Read more "Because the Night Belongs to Us: You’ll Never Find Me (2023)"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)"At Lincoln High School, this year’s student class body election is getting surprisingly cutthroat. Popular girl Chelsea (Nicolette le Faye) is the likeliest to succeed … at least until the likeable slacker Barry (Bennie Mack McCoy IV) decides to throw his hat into the ring. Why now when he has neither paid his dues nor […]
Read more "Politics Can Be Messy: President’s Day (2010)"John and Rae Ingram decided to get away from it all, taking to the sea in their luxury yacht Saracen. Unfortunately for them, they ran afoul of a lack of wind and were becalmed, pretty much stopped at sea. Neither of them was a stranger to such things, and neither of them was terribly put […]
Read more "Poseidon’s On a Mission/About to Turn It Up to Eleven: Charles Williams’ Dead Calm"Kaleb (Théo Christine) visits Ali (Samir Nait), for two reasons: a package pickup as well as looking for an affordable gift for a beloved neighbor who is leaving his building. However, when Ali takes him into the backroom to look at his valuable, possibly smuggled jewelry, Kaleb sees something in addition to a pair of […]
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