• Book Review

    Spiral (Ring #2)

    Dust off your VCR, grab that unmarked tape, and press Play. You're about to get... what's that?... The tape is extinct? How does a tape go extinct? So is it a DVD now?... No, it's a... what?!

  • Book Review

    The Andromeda Strain

    A deadly virus running rampant and killing almost everyone who comes into contact with it. Scientists believe they've got a way to contain it, but the President won't make the call. And now, the coronavirus, er, Andromeda Strain may be spreading even further!

  • Book Review

    The Client

    Not all books with a child as the main character are kids' books. Especially when the central kid witnesses a gruesome suicide right off the bat and then plays games with the FBI for fear that his own life is in danger from the Mafia. You know, John Grisham could…

  • Film Review

    The Exorcist (1973 film)

    The fact that the novel's author, William Peter Blatty, also wrote the screenplay for the adaptation didn't hurt anything. He obviously knew the characters the best and also the beats that would move the story along.

  • Book Review

    The Exorcist (The Exorcist #1)

    This is one of those books that, when you finish it, you wonder if the good guys actually won. I had seen the film version a couple times before reading this book, but it had been years. So I really felt like I was going in fresh. Let's just say…

  • Film Review

    Flowers for Algernon (2000 film)

    This film had an uphill battle given how classic the book was. I think that this being the first adaptation (that I could find) since the book's release 34 years earlier was telling. Also, a made-for-TV movie, or movie of the week, wasn't what I was expecting.

  • Book Review

    Flowers for Algernon

    I've heard about this book a lot, but somehow it's never really made it to my reading list. I suppose that's because I never really knew what it was about. But recently I was seeing it on a lot of top sci-fi book lists and I thought, hmm, I didn't…

  • Film Review

    Of Mice and Men (1992 film)

    This is probably one of the most faithful book-to-film adaptations I’ve seen in a long time. One of the reasons I chose this one to watch is that I love Gary Sinise in about everything I see him in. And then to find out he directed it?! Shut up and…