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Movie Review: Heretic

I watched Heretic the old school way by watching it at the movie theater. I had some mixed opinions about this movie, although I did generally did enjoy it. The story is about two female Mormon missionaries who go to a man’s house to convert him to Mormonism only to...

Movie Review: Smile 2

I enjoyed the first Smile movie. It had a cool premise, and generally the execution was good too. I purposely didn’t look at any of the reviews before watching Smile 2, so as not to have any bias before watching. I was really disappointed with the sequel, and then...

Movie Review: Salem’s Lot

The new Salem’s Lot is yet another disappointing adaptation of a Stephen King story or novel in a long list of them. I feel more often not they get Stephen King wrong. Many of the reasons are the same for these failures and the most prominent being that they didn’t...

Movie Review: Speak No Evil

I’ve watched a string of horror movies in the theater lately including The Watchers, Longlegs, and Trap. I’ve enjoyed each of these to a certain extent. They were all in the category of good not great. Speak no Evil eclipses each of these movies without question....

The Book of Accidents by Chuck Wendig

This was a book that I really wanted to like. The opening prologue was really strong and promising, but unfortunately there were too many things that held this back from being an enjoyable novel. The first was the writing style, which I generally don’t think worked....

Movie Review: Trap

Watching the trailer for M Night Shyamalan’s latest movie Trap, it appears that the whole movie is given away in the trailer. To a certain extent, this is true. The basic plot of the movie is revealed. But this movie is more than just what is revealed in the trailer—a...