Stranger in the Lake
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How well do you know your husband? When a young woman’s body is found floating in the lake...
The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company
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n August 1765 the East India Company defeated the young Mughal emperor and forced him to establish a...
The Girl Who Ran
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When Bobbi Gibb saw the Boston Marathon her mind was set-she had to be a part of it. But when the...
The Crooked Man (2016)
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While at a slumber party, twelve-year-old Olivia is blamed for the horrific and mysterious death of...
Tales From The Darkside
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This 30-minute horror/fantasy anthology series follows in the vein of The Twilight Zone. Each week...
Blazing Minds (92 KP) rated Old (2021) in Movies
Oct 29, 2021 (Updated Nov 2, 2021)
If you are a dedicated follower/fan of Shyamalan then this is going to be a film that you will want to see on the big screen, don’t expect lots of action or any action at all in this movie it’s a slow-burning mystery/drama that keeps you guessing.
Everything Under
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It's been sixteen years since Gretel last saw her mother, half a lifetime to forget her childhood on...
Magical Realism Retellings Mythology Literary Fiction
David McK (3610 KP) rated Devotion (2022) in Movies
Feb 12, 2023 (Updated Feb 12, 2023)
Unfortunately, I think they watched a different film than me.
This is set during the Korean War, and tells the story of the friendship between Naval aviators Tom Hudner and Jesse Brown; the latter one of the first non-white aviators in the air force at the time.
Personally, I found the film to be quite long and drawn-out, with even the vaunted flight scenes looking just not-quite right!
David McK (3610 KP) rated Meg 2: The Trench (2023) in Movies
Sep 7, 2025
If you're expecting anything different from the sequel, you'd be disappointed!
Yes, several - bit not all -of the cast return, with this film very much broken into two distinct sections: the first (roughly) half or so on the seabed below "the Thermocline" - which the creatures below are usually unable to swim up beyond - and the second half on the surface itself.
Second half is also almost a re-tread of the second half of the first movie.
In short, a B-movie writ large.
Christine A. (965 KP) rated What She Saw in Books
Jun 15, 2019
In What She Saw by Wendy Clarke, you meet Leona, a loving and extremely protective mother of teenaged Beth. They do everything together, absolutely everything. They seem to be perfect and have the perfect life. Of course, things are not always what they seem. Leona and Beth both have secrets which they keep from each other and from everyone else. The question asked is, "how far will a mother go to keep her child safe?"
What She Saw is a slow burn which I had difficulty getting into. However, since I did, I could not put it down. I was a Psychology major and am a sucker for when a character meeting with a psychologist partly reveals the story.
The story uses flashbacks and the present. It starts slow but is suspenseful and well-written.
According to Goodreads, Clarke has published over three hundred short stories published in national women's magazines, and this is her debut novel. As of 6/13/19, it has a rating of 4.25 out of 5. Most of the ratings are 5 stars, and none are 1 star. For a debut novel, that is quite impressive.
I am looking forward to reading more by Wendy Clarke.
This review was published on Philomathinphila.com on 6/15/19.