Mostly movie reviews, sometimes book reviews.
Sent to a school for disturbed children after the accident that killed his baby sister, ten-year-old Joey returns home and insists his nanny, played by Bette Davis, means to kill him next.
Small-time crook Walter Matthau knocks over a podunk New Mexico bank for what should be a few thousand dollars, comes away with three-quarters of a million, and knows exactly whose money he’s taken.
A government program drops an Army pilot into a dead man’s last eight minutes aboard a Chicago commuter train, over and over, until he can find the bomber.
A globe-trotting archaeologist races the Nazis to find the Ark of the Covenant.
A nun at a rural convent unravels after encountering Satan.
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.