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A Sociopath’s Guide to a Successful Marriage
A Sociopath’s Guide to a Successful Marriage
M. K. Oliver | 2026 | Contemporary, Fiction & Poetry, Humor & Comedy, Thriller
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I laughed my way through this dark, genuinely funny novel.

Laila is a mother of two, and desperate to move to a better area of London. She wants her husband to get the promotion, her children to be accepted into the expensive private school, and for the dead body in the living room to be somewhere else - and who on earth is he?!

Laila is clever, manipulative, very cold and dangerous. However, everything she does has a domino effect, which results in her having to clear up one inconvenience after another.

This is a twisty, fast paced novel, and the narrator, Perdita Weeks, was perfect in bringing Laila to life. It made the prospect of having a sociopath as a friend an attractive proposition (for the laughs, of course!).
  
    Holidays and Vacations

    Holidays and Vacations

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    While waiting for the holidays or the next school vacations, don’t you sometimes wish having a...

Halloween H20: 20 Years Later (1998)
Halloween H20: 20 Years Later (1998)
1998 | Horror
Jamie Lee returns!
Coming off the pukefest that was the Curse of Michael Myers, filmmakers had nowhere to go but up.

Seeing Jamie Lee Curtis back as Laurie Strode alongside younger versions of Michelle Williams, Josh Hartnett and Joseph Gordon-Levitt gave me a thrill. Unfortunately, the screenplay is substandard and doesn't really give the characters much to do.

Since she was last seen, Laurie has gone into hiding with her teenage son and is now a teacher at a private school in California still haunted by the events on Halloween 20 years ago.

The last act redeems the film a little with the family reunion and final confrontation being enjoyable and nostalgic; however, when the film ends I still had the feeling like an opportunity to make a truly great horror film was wasted.

  
The Goldfinch (2019)
The Goldfinch (2019)
2019 | Drama
I read the book so this story of loss and longing cut down inside of me. On the way to a meeting with the principal at his upper crust private school, Theo and his mother visit the Met. Unfortunately, a bomb inside the museum turns Theo's life upside down as his mother is killed and he steals a beautiful painting. This rash decision will affect the rest of his life.

The movie has a lot of pretension trying to maintain the loyalty to the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. It also moves glacierly and is hard to sit through if you can't follow everything. The frame of the film is full of artistic art direction and spectular cinematography. A lot of care went into the production, but very little thought was given to "juice" the story into something that nonreaders could enjoy.