Welcome to my weird world!
The young adult industry seems to be on a roll with properly diversifying its subjects and authors, and I cannot be more proud of the business for that. Books that bring up important but invisible-to-some subjects can make the world a better place. Roger Ebert said movies were an empathy machine, allowing you to fully... Continue Reading →
This book convinced me I should one day return to this duology, and see the first one anew, which I gave a rather unfavourable review of. I said it was a jump-scare book that wasn't set up to truly scare, and by the time it actually got to the good stuff, I was more relieved... Continue Reading →
There's this movie out there called Santa Hunters, and I need not tell you who it's marketing for. I haven't seen the film, but on the surface it looks like a cheap pandering flick about kids trying to get the loot of their life for the holidays. We Can Be Heroes when only looking at... Continue Reading →
When it comes to steampunk, I'm not educated in machinery and screw types. But that's no reason to avoid every kind of entertainment involving some hands-on lifting and crafting. If I did that, I never would've tried out Marissa Meyer's Cinder, which was the starting point into one of my favourite writers. Lifelikes, and they're... Continue Reading →
I've been disappointed with a fair bit of DC superhero movies, like Batman V Superman, Teen Titans Go! To The Movies and Aquaman, but I never thought a C would be my grade for the delayed-five-times and gargantuanly anticipated follow-up to the Wonder Woman movie, a production that was my second favourite film of all... Continue Reading →
Maybe books weren’t made to replicate the screenplays for horror movies. I now know Laurie Faria Stolarz has written a ton of other horror stories, but I guess this one is proof that it’s harder than you think to make a jump-scare book. The book grabbed my interest though when I read it a while... Continue Reading →
I hope this gets a sequel. I've seen some of Paul W. S. Anderson's work, and some of it is rocky. I was a fan of the Resident Evil movies. The last one, even though it retconned quite a bit, was a wonderfully satisfying burst of entertainment and surprising melancholiness. I can see Paul's style... Continue Reading →
Merry Christmas, or Happy Holidays. Whichever works. For those who didn't do their homework, such as me, this is not only a lesbian romance movie set on Christmas; it's apparently the first of its type because every actor who plays someone who's LGBTQ in this movie is LGBTQ in real life. Welcome additional touch there.... Continue Reading →
Why has this become a classic that my family and I watch every year and yours probably does too? Well, there's the fact it's a relatable everything-goes-wrong plot as Clark W. Griswold Jr. tries to plan the most perfect Christmas possible…No, that's not why. The antics and slapstick are goldenly hectic and Chevy Chase is... Continue Reading →
For Christmas Eve, I'm going to be uploading a fair bit of movie reviews of some Christmas cheer. This is the first. This used to be one of my favourite films ever. And you know, I will often say someone else’s review shouldn’t impact your own, and what I mean by that is if a... Continue Reading →
William J. McGinn 