One of the toughest things about movies that deal with affairs is not the likability of the characters, but in how we as an audience feel about the choices the characters make in order to start the affair. People may not agree with many of the choices made by characters in How He Fell in
I have to hand it to Victoria Schwab, she has the keenest knack for making sure you’re stressed and thoroughly entertained as you flip through the pages of her books. I was a huge fan of the first two books in the Shades of Magic series so when I had the chance to pick up
There’s been a kind of interesting trend in the short story world in these past few years to center narratives around veterans and soldiers who fought in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan. These Heroic, Happy Dead counts itself in that number. It’s comparable to Redeployment, the Phil Klay novel that I loved, but writer Luke Mogelson takes a
I cannot believe that the year is half over. Time has flown by so damn quickly. Taking stock of the landscape of movies and it has been a bit of an uneven year. Granted I haven’t seen some of the big players, but were it not for LA Film Festival this year would seem super
Two books that couldn’t be further from each other in terms of subject matter and genre feature in this new update to Le Noir Auteur Reads. First up is a jaunt M/M romance and second we have a non-fiction account of the nuclear age. The Pirate of Fathoms Deep by Megan Derr The Pirate of
This post was supposed to have gone up two weeks ago but when the Great Domain Name Crash of 2016 came I lost all the progress and couldn’t update the site with anything new. I enjoyed that this LA Film Fest forced me to do a decent amount of research into the films I was