Mostly movie reviews , sometimes book reviews .
Assassin Chow Yun-Fat takes one last job to save the sight of the nightclub singer he half-blinded, while the detective hunting him finds himself taking the killer’s side.
An enigmatic gunslinger plays both sides of a border-town feud for profit.
A retired swordsman turned sculptor goes on the run after a clan leader blames a string of murders on his crystal statue, which has gone missing.
A one-eyed Bette Davis celebrates her wedding anniversary, ten years after her husband’s death, by tormenting her three grown sons and the women who love them.
In colonial Pennsylvania, frontiersman John Wayne leads his fellow colonists against crooked merchants, Indian raiders, and an arrogant British captain.
A fading TV cowboy and his stunt double drift through the summer of 1969, while the Manson family circles the Hollywood power couple next door.
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.