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When I first heard they were making a sequel to Black Phone—which I thought was a phenomenal horror movie—I wasn’t terribly excited about the prospect. I thought the entire story was told and there was no need to make another movie, other than for the typical money...

Weapons was an interesting story. The premise behind it (a witch takes control of people and can use them as weapons) is interesting, but what I really enjoyed about the movie was the way the story unfolded and how the story was told. The story has a good mystery...

In the third Alex Verus novel, apprentices are going missing, and naturally Alex finds himself in the middle of the situation. He has a greater vested interest in the situation since he now formally has an apprentice in Luna. As usual, there are multiple layers to...

The Institute is a bit of a mixed bag. There was a lot that I liked in this novel, but there were some really serious negatives as well. In this stories, children who display telekinetic or telepathic abilities are kidnapped from their homes and transported to a...

I’ve had the pleasure of reading a number of Jeff Strand novels, and if you are anticipating the generally light-hearted humorous novels that you get out of Strand, Pressure is most certainly not that. This novel is dark. Really dark. Every time I would get to a scene...

When all you seem to get these days in terms of big releases that hit the theaters are sequels, prequels, or something that’s tied to an existing platform, it’s refreshing to watch an original movie. Sinners was definitely that. It was a movie that I had high...