Celebrity memoirs always give me pause because the ones I’ve read tend to feel as though they have a thick coat of veneer. They’re always conscious of their image, so what they present in the memoir feels calculated or even whitewashed. As such, reading a celebrity memoir usually feels like an exercise in futility: by … More Life as a Work in Progress: In Pieces, by Sally Field
Peter Swanson’s All the Beautiful Lies is a pretty good psychological thriller, but it’s also emblematic of a male mystery author trope I hate. … More The Male Mystery Author Cliché I Hate: All the Beautiful Lies, by Peter Swanson
An American Werewolf in London is a classic monster movie about an American bitten by a werewolf while traveling abroad. … More Scary Movie Review: An American Werewolf in London
A closer look at Scream, the horror movie that reinvented the genre, and its lasting impact. In it, Sidney Prescott and her friends are menaced by a mysterious Ghostface killer. … More Scary Movie Review: Scream
In this remake of the classic movie A Star is Born, Lady Gaga falls in love with Bradley Cooper and rises to fame while his career stalls as he struggles with addiction. … More A Star is Born is a Sweet and Bleak Movie
A closer look at the classic 1978 horror movie Halloween, in which Michael Myers comes home and terrorizes babysitter Laurie Strode. … More Scary Movie Review: Halloween
The original Friday the 13th is a horror movie classic in with counselors at Camp Crystal Lake are stalked by an unseen killer on the titular day. … More Scary Movie Review: Friday the 13th
