• Can someone tell me why exactly this movie was made? I love Dracula lore as much as the next person, but I swear, you’d have to be a complete—and I mean 100% complete—Dracula-loving geek to be able to even remotely, somehow, some way, like this movie, even for just an ounce. What was Titus Welliver…

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  • I’m sure I saw a meme out there depicting watch collectors going for gaudy and big watches when they first start out and ultimately reverting to more classical and vintage-type watches as they mature in age and life. I remember buying a 48mm Citizen navigator watch. Yes, 48mm. The problem? My wrist was in no…


  • Above the Noise: My Story of Chasing Calm by DeMar DeRozan is the biography of one of the Toronto Raptors’ current all-time leading scorers and one of the NBA’s most deadly mid-range shooters today. Although it’s true that many professional athletes literally came from nothing prior to gaining superstardom, I was for some odd reason…

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  • Under the Banner of Heaven by John Krakauer talks about the brutal killing of an innocent woman and her baby daughter in the mid-1980s by two brothers whom one of them believed that doing so was doing God’s work. It’s the story about how Mormonism and equally important, how the different sects were created, especially…

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  • Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy is a literary novel set entirely on a remote island where a family of four has been tasked by the government to safeguard and protect the seeds of the many species of plants and flowers known to man. The idea is that with climate change getting worse, the planet…

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  • This came in as a hot one. From the directors of Talk to Me and from A21 Studios, I’m sure there was a lot of anticipation for this one from horror fans. I do remember seeing the trailer, but only because I saw people mentioning that the trailer did a very good job of not…

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  • I mean, you at least have to give credit to people for trying, right? It’s hard, but hey, it’s also easy for armchair quarterbacks like myself to criticize the works of others behind the keyboard and monitor. But man, The Ritual is just one horrible mess of a movie. It didn’t start off so, but…

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  • Apocalypse: How Catastrophe Transformed Our World and Can Forge New Futures by Lizzie Wade goes over some of our world’s history’s most devastating apocalyptic events, showing us that regardless of what gets thrown at us, humans eventually will find a way to survive and move forward. If you’re feeling depressed about today’s world and how…

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  • Everybody Wants to Rule the World Except Me by Django Wexler is the second book in the Dark Lord Davi duology. It’s the hotly anticipated sequel to How to Become the Dark Lord and Die Trying, a raunchy, comedic, in-your-face dark fantasy that had me tearing up at times due to how hilarious certain bits…

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  • Jesus Wept: Seven Popes and the Battle for the Soul of the Catholic Church by Philip Shenon is an appropriately named investigative novel that delves into the lives of the previous six or seven popes and how their winning the conclave election to become supreme rulers of the Roman Catholic Church have created an uproar,…

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