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Pressure by Jeff Strand

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...

Movie Review: Sinners

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...

Cursed by Benedict Jacka

It’s been a few years since I read Fated, the first novel in Benedict Jacka’s Alex Verus series. I thoroughly enjoyed that book so I was eager to read his second novel in the series. It took me a bit of time to refamiliarize myself with the characters and the story...

Distant Thunders by Taylor Anderson

It’s been a while since I read the third book in the Destroyermen series, so much of the book for me was trying to remember who all of the characters were and what all of the situations were with the battles that took place and the political wranglings. That made...

Episode 13 by Craig DiLouie

Episode 13 centers around a reality television crew that goes into a house in Virginia where in the Seventies, a group of paranormal researchers disappeared. The novel uses a unique approach in the narrative style of this novel, by presenting it as a found footage...

Movie Review: The Monkey

It’s hard to get horror comedy right. There have only ever been a handful of horror comedies that I have seen in my life that I have actually enjoyed. The Monkey falls squarely in the category of a failed attempt at this subgenre. I actually thought the movie started...