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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...

The Substance is a tale of two movies. It starts off with a really cool premise. An aging Hollywood star is given a chance to create a younger version of herself, but the process has many strings attached. Each body has to be used for exactly a week without fail and...

I am unveiling the cover for my tenth novel, Return to Blood Street, which is a sequel to my novel Blood Street released a decade ago.

This is the second novel that I read from Simone St. James, and much like The Sundown Motel, this novel was a winner. This novel involves a true crime blogger interviewing a woman acquitted of serial murder forty years ago. The novel bounces back between present day...

In this very, very long novel, it seemed like 90% of it is setup, and 10% is the realization of this setup, which isn’t a great ratio of action and consequence to setup. I’ve been enjoying the Stormlight Archives series to this point, and I did generally like this...

My basic premise coming into this movie is that there is no reason for it to exist. Gladiator is one of the greatest movies ever made, and the story was all told. There was no need for a sequel, and to me this is clearly a money grab. All of that said, how was the...