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Silver Nitrate by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
In Silver Nitrate, Tristan and Montserrat, an actor and a sound editor from Mexico, both struggling to make a living, befriend an old director, who tells them of a tale of a Nazi who was a practicing sorcerer coming to Mexico in the fifties, and starting a cult of...
Movie Review: Godzilla X Kong
It seems as if the overall quality of these movies in this monster mash series has progressively decreased. The best two movies were Kong: Skull Island and the first Godzilla movie. Each one since seems worse than the previous one. That doesn’t mean they aren’t worth...
Movie Review: Dune Part 2
I thought the first Dune movie was a decent movie, but I wasn’t enthralled by it. Part of the issue was that I don’t think the movie did a very good job of explaining the intricate world building in the movie, and that if you weren’t a book reader (which I am...
I Travel by Night and The Road to Perdition by Robert McCammon
These were two novellas that can be read together since The Last Train to Perdition immediately follows I Travel by Night. Robert McCammon is one of my all time favorite novelists, and he definitely delivered with these two novellas. He seems to have...
The Sundown Motel by Simone St. James
The Sundown Motel is a supernatural mystery novel that is told by two different narrators, thirty five years apart. In 2017, Carly Kirk is trying to uncover the mystery of her aunt’s disappearance by going to Fell, New York, the place where her Aunt Vivian had been...
Movie Review: The Nun 2
I just finished watching The Nun the previous week for the first time before watching The Nun 2 in the theaters. I have watched all of the movies in The Conjuring universe with this movie. Generally speaking, these are quality horror movies with The Conjuring being...