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The Library at Mount Char: Horror or Horrific?
I did not enjoy this book; I managed to get 75% through the story and thought for sure it was finishing, only to discover another 25%....

London St. Juniper
May 10, 20232 min read


Our Wives Under the Sea: A Gothic Romance
Julia Armfield's Our Wives Under the Sea is a wonderfully clever and well-crafted Gothic romance tailored for a contemporary audience. It...

London St. Juniper
Apr 27, 20232 min read


Evil Dead Rise: A Love Letter
Dr. S and I rolled into a movie theatre at 10pm on a Monday night to be sure we saw Evil Dead Rise in theatres. I was apprehensive, and...

London St. Juniper
Apr 25, 20232 min read


Attachment: A Lesbian Love Story
Attachment (2022) is a Danish Shudder original directed by Gabriel Bier Gidlason, and it is an engaging lesbian romance of a horror film....

London St. Juniper
Apr 22, 20232 min read


Same old same old
It is possible to love a thing, yet admit and call attention to its flaws and abuses. The film industry is built on a foundation of...

London St. Juniper
Apr 19, 20233 min read


The Jungle
If you have a chance to see a production of The Jungle by the Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, go. Right now they are partnered with STC...

London St. Juniper
Apr 1, 20231 min read


The Little Raincloud over Rorschach Theatre
To the patron who sat next to me and sniffed loudly and wetly with every breath for the entire 90 minute production of Sometimes the...

London St. Juniper
Mar 25, 20232 min read


Patrick Page's Lear
The headlines really tell the story on this one. Colleen Kennedy of The Washington City Paper proclaims that "King Lear Blows Audiences...

London St. Juniper
Mar 24, 20233 min read


Re/Member
Six young high schoolers awake one night to find themselves trapped in their school and hunted down by a small, blood-drenched figure....

London St. Juniper
Mar 12, 20231 min read


What Moves the Dead?
What Moves the Dead is an excellent elaborative retelling of Edgar Allan Poe's "Fall of the House of Usher." Rereading the childhood...

London St. Juniper
Feb 11, 20231 min read


The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Evelyn Hugo is stunning. She is gorgeous and breathtaking and gravitationally captivating. The fact that she isn't real does nothing to...

London St. Juniper
Feb 5, 20232 min read


Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas
Cemetery Boys is a joyful romantic fantasy of self discovery and affirmation. The driving action is admittedly grim, as Yadriel hunts for...

London St. Juniper
Feb 5, 20231 min read


January wrap
I'm still not sure how I want to handle a media review blog, but I know a couple of things: if I set strict rules I'll lose interest, I'm...

London St. Juniper
Jan 31, 20233 min read


The Prestige
I do not understand why this movie is so highly rated. Like Christian Bale, it doesn’t know what to do with itself; like Bale, it takes a...

London St. Juniper
Jan 29, 20231 min read


Friday the 13th
Friday the 13th (1980) is not a good movie. There. I said it. And I mean it, too. Not with any kind of intended snobbery, but more of an...

London St. Juniper
Jan 21, 20231 min read


Skinamarink (2022)
The greatest thing I can say about Kyle Edward Ball’s _Skinamarink_ (2022) is that it truly made me doubt my sense of time. As I lost the...

London St. Juniper
Jan 17, 20233 min read


In Name Only? Or, what's in an adaptation?
In Name Only, or, What’s in an adaptation? I’ve just finished the newly-released The Invitation, and I am a bit disappointed. The...

London St. Juniper
Sep 22, 20223 min read
Faire is Not a Photo Safari
This weekend, on September 3, 2022, a man took a photo of me without my consent, and posted the image on his public Facebook account...

London St. Juniper
Sep 8, 20225 min read
Bucking Binaries: A Queer American West
I am struck by a particular thought: when people speak about their own sense of self, maybe we should believe them. When an individual...

London St. Juniper
Nov 20, 20195 min read


Not the book I was hoping for: My Review of <i>The Five</i>
The Five: A Chapter Review Right from the start I want to be very clear that I am not writing a book review, but rather a chapter review...

London St. Juniper
Nov 10, 20197 min read
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