‘Monarch: Legacy of Monsters’ Season 2 has Monsterverse’s best characters
TV review: Kurt Russell and other skilled actors mesh well with the special effects for a surprisingly engaging expansion of the saga.
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‘Monarch: Legacy of Monsters’ Season 2 has Monsterverse’s best characters
Collins steps up his tie-in game in ‘Dark Angel: Skin Game’ (2003)
‘Dark Angel’ flashback (Book review): The author hits on a remarkable number of issues of the real 2020s as Max embraces her leadership role.
‘Ghosts of Mars’ (2001) will have Carpenter fans seeing red
Frightening Friday (Movie review): The director finds no signs of life among his lead actors in this sci-fi riff on “Assault on Precinct 13.”
If you like your stake medium-well, check out ‘Vampires’ (1998)
Frightening Friday (Movie review): In a decade of bloodsuckers, John Carpenter checks in with his own respectable vampire-Western.
‘Volcano’ (1997) not groundbreaking, but it’s a hot time at the movies
Throwback Thursday (Movie review): The lava CGI still looks good, and while you might not erupt with applause, you’ll wish all city officials were like Jones and Heche.
‘Darker Than Amber’ (1966, 1970) is first McGee novel to darken screens
Sleuthing Sunday (Book and movie reviews): The plot’s relative simplicity makes it a good choice, and the casting is solid. But MacDonald’s introspection can’t be mimicked.
Not the peak of disaster films, ‘Dante’s Peak’ (1997) nonetheless sizzles
Throwback Thursday (Movie review): The chemistry between Brosnan and Hamilton is almost as hot as the lava.
‘Bright Orange for the Shroud’ (1965) dominated by dark villain
Sleuthing Sunday (Book review): In a novel criticizing the attempted “taming” of Florida, MacDonald shows how scary an untamed man can be.
MacDonald goes all-in on McGee with double-length ‘Deadly Shade of Gold’ (1965)
Sleuthing Sunday (Book review): After the four 1964 novels introduce the unorthodox sleuth, the fifth tome is an international epic.
Twists come at a fast draw in ‘A Purple Place for Dying’ (1964)
Sleuthing Sunday (Book review): Travis McGee finds things aren’t so civilized out West in the third adventure of John D. MacDonald’s series.