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July 20, 2024
Review: Longlegs (2024)
It seems as if I’m going to be in the minority on my opinion regarding this film. I’ll just let you all know right now. I didn’t really like Longlegs (2024). But I also didn’t hate it either. The newest film written and directed by Oz Perkins, is a psychological horror that is about a […]
July 7, 2024
In Medias Res
I’ve been writing a lot of short stories recently opposed to novel writing. There are numerous reasons for this, but the one main reason is that I’m actually making money writing shorter length pieces compared to the novel length pieces. It’s not enough money to stay at home and be a creative writer full-time, but […]
June 30, 2024
Movie Review: A Quiet Place: Day One (2024)
Three years ago, I reviewed A Quiet Place Part II (2021) and honestly, I thought it was a good sequel. Usually, sequels try to be better, have bigger and meaner monsters, and just try to top what happened in the film prior to it. With A Quiet Place: Day One (2024), the film takes audiences […]
June 23, 2024
Movie Review: The Exorcism (2024)
Going into The Exorcism (2024) I have to say, I didn’t have high expectations. The last thing I saw Russell Crowe in was Thor: Love and Thunder (2022) and his portrayal of Zeus left a bad taste in my mouth. Arguably, that whole movie left a bad taste in my mouth, but that’s beside the […]
June 18, 2024
Book Review: Margo’s Got Money Troubles
Book of the Month is a subscription-based service where you pay $15 a month and they send you a hardcover book of your choosing. I’ve been a member of theirs since September 2020. Since that time, I’ve read 55 BOTM books. When you rate them in the BOTM app, you choose either Love, Like, or […]
June 10, 2024
Book Review: Eruption
When I was married, we went to Ikea and bought a king-sized bedframe. Of course, I was the one that had to assemble the monstrosity. Have you ever tried to build something like that? It was one of those bed frames that didn’t rely on a box spring. It was one of those slatted bed […]
June 8, 2024
Review: In a Violent Nature (2024)
If you watch the film “In a Violent Nature” (2024), don’t expect to experience unique plots, characters, kills (with the exception of one rather grisly death), or environments. Everything in this 1 hour 34-minute slasher film written and directed by Chris Nash has already been done in similar horror films. Sounds boring, right? Wrong. “In […]
March 17, 2024
A Good Morning … for obvious reasons
I’ve started a tradition of sorts. Every payday, I stop by a bakery over in Plymouth and pick up a couple of donuts. The targeted donuts are the plain cake ones or the cake donuts with the chocolate frosting on them. Those are my two favorites. Of course, it sort of depends on when I […]
January 20, 2024
Reading Till I Die
I texted my sister the other day telling her that I finished reading The Kingdom of Sweets: A Novel of the Nutcracker. It’s a novel written by Erika Johansen. The book is described as a reimagining of the classic tale The Nutcracker. It is to an extent. There were a couple of nutcrackers in it, […]
January 3, 2024
Book vs Film: Leave the World Behind
This is something that I stopped doing a while back, but I wanted to bring it back because I love the discussion between which is better, the book or the film. So, I thought I’d start 2024 off with a 2023 film that is based off the book with the same title. Leave the World […]
