The Black Monday Murders Vol. 1
The Black Monday Murders Vol. 1: All Hail, God Mammon “If you are going to earn more…if you’re going to earn real money, accumulate real power… then that is done on the backs of others. Call them workers, call them proles, even call them slaves, I do not care. Just know it is they who you will sacrifice for your gain. “We finance culture. We buy entire nations. But even that is just manifestation…it’s not real power. It...
Clive Barker’s Coldheart Canyon
Hollywood Hokum & Snail Masturbation; Welcome to… Clive Barker’s Coldheart Canyon Dear oh dear, what a sordid and depressing 2001 novel this one is. From the pen of horror writer Clive Barker, it should be pressing all the right buttons for me. In particular, I’m a sucker for tales of Old Hollywood — and Coldheart Canyon is even advertised as a ‘Hollywood ghost story’. Yet so much of it is wrong, wrong, wrong; not...
The Sign of the Four
Cocaine and Criminal Capers: The Sign of the Four By Arthur Conan Doyle Despite the moans of some, I think that A Study in Scarlet, the debut teaming of Mr. Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson is just a little gem of perfect structure. I really enjoyed it a great deal. A little less than three years later, Arthur Conan Doyle brought the duo back with a very different outing, in the 1890 short novel The Sign of the Four. At least...
Alien: Covenant (2017)
The Lonely Perfection of My Dreams: Alien: Covenant (2017) The brief prologue to Ridley Scott’s Alien: Covenant is as intriguing, clever and illuminating an opening as I’ve seen in while. In retrospect, I find that the film’s major themes are given to us here, in the time that it takes to run the opening credits. Taking place before the events of the disappointing 2012 Prometheus, we see a younger Peter Weyland (Guy Pearce), the...
Oh No, I’m a Racist Asshole! Passing by The Dark Tower
Oh No, I’m a Racist Asshole! Passing by The Dark Tower I’ve just finished reading The Waste Lands, Stephen King’s third volume in his The Dark Tower series. So, I guess that will tell you I’m not all that into it. I am a fan of King, just not of this beloved fantasy series. I’ve somehow never gotten it, despite many attempts over the years. Therefore the film adaptation shouldn’t really bother me all that much. Before I came...
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