Image via netgalley.com “No witch should speak to the dead, except to say her goodbyes. It gives them ideas.” That’s two from two on ARCs from Interstellar Flight Press and two new authors for me t…

Image via IMDb Spielberg revisits familiar territory in a film that feels like a loop closing that started with Close Encounters but unfortunately, it kicks wide of the goal one time too many and u…

Image via StoryGraph Why did I put this one off for so long? When k got back into reading last year this was one of the books that TikTok endlessly told me was must-read and un-putdownable. Turns o…

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The conclusion to the 28 Years Later trilogy had to be delayed because of specific filming specifications, according to Boyle.

Image via IMDb There were rumours that early test screenings of this film were mixed and a suggestion was floated to rename it, distancing from the Mummy brand. That sentence and sentiment pretty m…

Image via IMDb I love me a shark film. Serious or comedic, I love em all for different reasons. This one made itself so hard to love at times.

Image via StoryGraph Tense, then intense. Shocking and then finally “Wait, what?” This is a book, and author, that absolutely needs to make its way to your TBR as soon as possible. I had no idea wh…

Image via NetGalley A zany, extremely topical take on the slasher tropes, with a heavy dose of Indian culture and immigrant life in Canada. That sentence ranks as one of the more grounded ones I ca…

Image via NetGalley.com The Hive is an ambitious slow-burn trek into insanity that has great prose and ideas but unfortunately doesn’t manage to blend its respective parts together effectivel…

Image via IMDb Proof that not all adaptations need to be inferior, Project Hail Mary is an absolute triumph that sits in that curious spot of serving to compliment the source material whilst also b…

Image via IMDb A more than fitting end to one of the all-time great series, though if you came into it expecting a massive escalation in scope and story due to it being a feature film like I did, y…

Image via IMDb So close to being one of the best of the sequels to date until a pivot in plot and tone brings it all crashing down. Even by slasher sequel standards, this as wrote and trite as it c…

Image via Amazon.ie Some people just don’t like Holly Gibney. For the ones who dislike that writing about her somehow “keeps King away” from writing horror, I don’t agree but to a certain degree I …

Image via Amazon So I finally got around to it. I had concerns, mainly the fact that I had constantly heard it described as “cosy” and that’s not a description I see applied to the novels I have lo…

Image via Goodreads I genuinely bumped this up on my TBR because I’m a huge Jon Bernthal fan and wanted to have the book read before watching the show. Other than that I reckoned it was a good whil…

Image via Wikipedia.org I knew I was always going to have to make my review of this book somewhat conditional. Ultimately it’s YA fiction and that’s a genre I basically never venture towards. That …