Sleuthing Sunday (Movie reviews): For a brief time, Chandler was in demand but Marlowe wasn’t. Thus we have these curiosities with the Falcon and Michael Shayne.
Book review: The newly uncovered ninth John Lange novel unveils Crichton’s early Hollywood observations and shows he can do a straight murder-mystery.
Frightening Friday (Movie review): In the same year as the underappreciated “Carrie” pilot, Angela Bettis gives an even more incredible (and weirder!) turn.
Movie review: Never pretending the story is more than it is, the director gives us one great zombie sequence after another.
Throwback Thursday (Book review): Wells makes us feel the smallness of humans’ place in the definitive work of alien-invasion science fiction.
Movie review: Though not big on surprises, this is a slick adaptation of an origin story “Batman” fans are familiar with.
Sleuthing Sunday (TV review): Martin Gabel looks the part in the pilot of TV’s first attempt to create an ongoing Poirot series. It was salvaged as an episode of the anthology show.
Movie and TV list: It wasn’t exactly child’s play to organize these rankings, but I pray to Damballa that you enjoy them.
Frightening Friday (Book review): God mythology is a better key code for understanding Shelley’s novel; it’s influence on science fiction was a wonderful accident.
Movie review: But I wish they were. To be fair, this is a reasonably smart entry in the genre, again driven by Samara Weaving’s brave spurned bride.