Wrong Turn 5: Bloodlines Director: Declan O’Brien Produced by: Jeffery Beach, Phillip Roth Written by: Declan O’Brien Based on characters by: Alan McElroy Content Warning: Discussion of Violence, Rape, Murder, and mentions of Gore Spoiler Warning: Wrong Turn 5: Bloodlines For my contribution to our series Movies that Shaped Me, my first thought was a movie…
The Thursday Book Beat: Who Wants Some Good, Clean Reading?
Toronto Public Library’s Sell Books Program Has Been Scraped The program was supposed to decrease the wait time for held books by increasing the number of copies while also getting books for cheap ($5) in this time of budget uncertainty, but it seems like more money was spent than the TPL realized. The library bought…
What’s Loud, Proud, and Somehow Invisible? Diversity At The Creative Level
A couple of years ago, I read an interesting article about a young woman moved to tears by a panel discussion on “Women Who Kick Ass” at the San Diego Comic-Con. While waiting in line for hours to see the panel, our narrator had the misfortune of standing behind a few white dudes who continuously made…
King of the Cracksmen: An Imaginative Premise Lacking Dynamic Characters to Drive it Forward
King of the Cracksmen Dennis O’Flaherty Night Shade Books January 27, 2015 Full disclosure: I received a PDF version of this book in exchange for an honest review. Spoilers ahead! This debut from TV and film writer Dennis O’Flaherty, dubbed “a steampunk entertainment,” is an alternate history adventure that explores what 1877 in America might…
The Twin Peaks Log: S.2 E.6
Annie It’s interesting to see Cooper upset with himself because his extra-jurisdictional adventures endangered Audrey, and of course got a bunch of people killed at One-Eyed Jack’s. He mentions that this isn’t the first time someone’s been hurt because he stepped outside his bounds. But hey, Ben Horne is happy-ish because he got his briefcase…
Con Diaries: Toronto Comic Con
Recently, when Netflix failed to have a particular show I was looking for, it made a few recommendations, including Mike Tyson’s Mysteries in which the former boxer, his adopted daughter, a nice ghost, and an alcoholic pigeon solve mysteries. At my first stop on the convention show floor at Toronto Comic Con, there was not one,…
