Book Review: Autumn by David Moody
Zombies. They seem to be everywhere these days. Resident Evil: Afterlife brought their biologically engineered zombies back to the big screen recently. On Halloween 2010, the Walking Dead will invade...
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Movie Review: The Perfect Host – The Dinner Party as Dying Art
Winston Churchill once said, “Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.” So, too, is The Perfect Host, a Sundance 2010 selection by filmmaker Nick Tommay which premieres on...
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Book Review: The Woman in the Fifth by Douglas Kennedy
Author Douglas Kennedy is an artist. Like a painter who uses brush strokes to flesh out a person’s individuality on canvas, author Kennedy uses skillful dialogue. A reader cannot help but learn about a...
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DVD Review: Evil Things
After taking a trip to a remote location, five friends disappear without a trace. No evidence has ever been found as to what happened to them until now. A mysterious tape has been dicovered and it will...
View ArticleDVD Review: The Tenant (2010)
This is a good example of a movie that does not know what it wants to be. It certainly had the potential to be an entertaining horror romp, but while it has a few things going for it, the end result is...
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Blu-ray Review: The Perfect Host (2010)
While watching The Perfect Host, one gets the impression that it had two writers. Some scenes simply don’t appear to be on the same level as the others. It was only after I checked out the special...
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DVD Review: Injustice
Have you ever wondered how defence attorneys can defend people obviously guilty of heinous crimes like murder or rape? Especially when, in spite of all the evidence, they somehow manage to get them...
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Book Review: Wally Wander by NovaMelia
Wally Wander by NovaMelia is the story of Wally. Precocious as a child, Wally grows up with a family who has a lot of issues. Her mother has Parkinson’s and believes that the refrigerator talks to her....
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Movie Review: Storytelling
In music it’s very common for artists to provide answers to criticism in the form of a song. It’s called a “diss track” or “diss song.” In movies it’s much harder to do that, because movies generally...
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Movie Review: ‘Tom at the Farm’ Is a Haunting, Homoerotic Hitchcock Homage
Xavier Dolan in ‘Tom at the Farm.’ Made in 2013, but, amazingly, not receiving U.S. distribution until this month, Tom at the Farm is the fourth film by Canadian wunderkind Xavier Dolan, who made his...
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DVD Review: The Cell 2
The Cell 2 is an amazing film. Not because it’s good or anything like that, because it isn’t. Far from good, in fact: it’s an absolute piece of shit if you’re really dying to know. No, the amazing feat...
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Blu-ray Reviews: MGM/Fox Home Entertainment’s “Feed Your Fear” Line
Once again, the folks at MGM/Fox Home Entertainment have thrown all caution to the wind and released a new slew of older catalogue titles in glorious High Definition. This time, horror is the key word...
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Movie Review: The Perfect Host – The Dinner Party as Dying Art
Winston Churchill once said, “Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.” So, too, is The Perfect Host, a Sundance 2010 selection by filmmaker Nick Tommay which premieres on...
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Blu-ray Review: The Perfect Host (2010)
While watching The Perfect Host, one gets the impression that it had two writers. Some scenes simply don’t appear to be on the same level as the others. It was only after I checked out the special...
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DVD Review: Injustice
Have you ever wondered how defence attorneys can defend people obviously guilty of heinous crimes like murder or rape? Especially when, in spite of all the evidence, they somehow manage to get them...
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Interview with Verlin Darrow, author of ‘Blood and Wisdom’
Verlin Darrow is currently a psychotherapist who lives with his psychotherapist wife in the woods near the Monterey Bay in northern California. They diagnose each other as necessary. Verlin is a former...
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