Mostly movie reviews, sometimes book reviews.
An American drifter’s affair with a Frenchwoman draws him into a scheme to free her blowtorch-happy husband from an asylum.
A Harlem cocaine kingpin schemes to exit the lifestyle but encounters resistance from all sides.
A once-promising boxer’s downward spiral plays out against a younger boxer’s rise toward the same fate.
A frustrated cop pursues a maniacal hunchback, a one-handed bank robber and others in his quest to take down a crime kingpin in Rome.
A smooth-talking parasite hooks a young man on a hallucinogenic secretion but demands fresh human brains as sustenance.
A young working-class couple mortgaged to their ears on a rural semi-detached house discover their old, hostile neighbors wield otherworldly powers.
An oral history of the Sisters of Mercy’s rise from Leeds clubs through their debut album and subsequent implosion.
A college student visits the last man on an abandoned, kudzu-choked street and learns what lurks beneath the vines.
A grief-stricken man sees visions of a flapper-era woman at his Tennessee cabin—and discovers he’s not the first.
In 1780 London, William Blake finds himself swept into the Gordon Riots, only to discover the rioters’ enigmatic leader harbors a dark secret.