Valerian and Laureline start on new path with ‘Where Stories Are Born’ (2022)
Comic book review: “Valerian and Laureline” starts the post-Mezieres era with a suitably fun and ridiculously complex tale from Christin.
Valerian and Laureline start on new path with ‘Where Stories Are Born’ (2022)
‘The Amityville Curse’ (1990) seeks its haunts from another house
Revisiting Amityville (Movie review): The saga’s direct-to-video era begins with respectable production values but an underachieving story.
PKD’s ‘Breakfast at Twilight’ expands into ‘Nuclear Family’ (2021)
PKD flashback (Comic book review): The five-issue series expands on PKD’s short story in the same way TV’s “Man in the High Castle” builds a world from the novel.
‘Why Didn’t They Ask Evans?’ (1980) is long, but has great lead duo
Sleuthing Sunday (Movie review): As with the book, the two lead amateur sleuths keep this overly complex plot fairly engaging.
‘Insidious: Chapter 2’ (2013) pads out possession story
Frightening Friday (Movie review): Wan and Whannell extend the story, but mainly give us more of what scared us in “Insidious.”
‘Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow’ (2022) the ‘Kavalier & Clay’ of video games
Book club book report: Gabrielle Zevin pens an emotional friendship drama while secretly building up the reader’s video-game knowledge.
A neurotic half-century: Every Woody Allen film, ranked
Movie list: I’ve obsessively made my list and checked it twice, and now I need counseling. Here are my rankings of Woody Allen’s films.
A panic on our hands on the Fourth of July: The 10 best shark horror movies
Movie list: From underrated to obvious, from fun romps to artistic gems, here are RFMC’s picks for the 10 elite films in the subgenre of shark horror.
All 35 of Philip K. Dick’s science fiction novels, ranked
Book list: I rank all 35 science fiction novels by an author increasingly appreciated for his on-point and humorous previews of 21st century life.
‘Sparkling Cyanide’ retains glitz, mystery for 1983 TV movie
Sleuthing Sunday (Movie review): This character-driven Agatha Christie novel smoothly moves four decades forward for a glamorous TV film.