Shelby Oaks is the debut film from Chris Stuckmann (as writer/director). Yes, the Chris Stuckmann of YouTube movie reviewer fame. He has been talking about his dream of making a movie on his channel for years, and all I can say is congratulations, Chris. This is a hell of a first outing, and I look […]
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Cults Like Us explores America’s rich history with and natural proclivity for cults and cult-like groups. Since its very founding, this country had used cult ideology to gain and maintain control. By looking at the cults that came before, this book helps us examine the many ways these methods are still used and how we
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Final Destination: Bloodlines is a decent outing for the franchise. The storyline is interesting and a very different plan for our favorite menace, death. The cast is a surprisingly loveable group in a franchise known for characters that no one is sad to see lit aflame and dragged down the road by a tow truck.
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Clown in a Cornfield hits the big screen today. It’s the perfect teen slasher to kick off summer. Bringing equal parts mystery, teen drama, and comedy. In fact, it’s a bit of a shame that they went for the R rating, given that this would be a great horror movie for most teenagers who, because
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Until Dawn started out as a 2015 video game by the same name. The player’s goal was to see if they could keep all the characters alive, well, Until Dawn. Quick time events, a myriad of player choices, and some surprisingly tense sit still while a terrifying monster hovers over you moments made up the
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Between watching our studios dances and chaotic renditions of The Wobble as a hundred dancers waited for adjudications to begin, I finished TikTok influencer Penny Hawkins Smith‘s (@HospiceNursePenny) book Influencing Death. When the book arrived, I was expecting something akin to Mary Roach’s Stiff or Spook, but obviously the before death portion. Mostly informative, but
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This one is a long time coming. Life has been life and there is nothing like a family plague of norovirus to keep a blogger down. (Also, apparently it can give you a rash that looks like measles or chicken pox or possibly yersinia pestis and require you to rush your child to kids express
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This past week I read Head Cases by John McMahon. It is the first book in a new series that follows a group of FBI agents working on cold cases and the first book I’ve ever read of his. I was excited to go into a fresh novel by a new-to-me author. This was massively
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Read Part 1 here. The second half of Sheri Franke’s book, The House of My Mother, is both more intense and more personal than the first. It is during this section where we witness the downfall of her mother, Ruby, as the authorities finally take action against her abuses and bring charges against Ruby for
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