Author: Chuck

Literacy 2025: Book 22: The Last Devil To Die
Richard Osman’s culmination of the cozy mystery series The Thursday Murder Club

One Thing I Love (Yeah, I Said It) About M3GAN 2.0
M3GAN 2.0 is corny AF and has all kinds of pacing issues, but its best moments are sublime in a way the original only hinted at. (Minor spoilers)


One Thing I Thought Was Weird About Jurassic World: Rebirth
Rebirth keeps to an action movie template that’s been through so many generations that its characters and motivations are purely symbolic. (Major spoilers after a warning)

Tuesday Tune Two-Fer: Summer of Not Pulling Your Love Out
Two completely innocent tunes from June of 1971

One Thing I Like About 28 Years Later
28 Years Later is full of unconventional flourishes that give it an energy you wouldn’t expect from a story about the post-apocalypse. (No significant spoilers)

Literacy 2025: Book 21: William
Mason Coile’s short novel about a haunted smart house and the possibly possessed robot living in its attic

Literacy 2025: Book 20: Unruly
David Mitchell’s short histories of the kings and queens of England from Arthur to Elizabeth I


Tuesday Tune-Two Fer: I’ve Seen You on the Beach, and I’ve Seen You on TV
Two tunes related by the 80s and people going nuts on a keyboard

Groundhog D-Day (an Edge of Tomorrow appreciation post)
Catching up on my backlog with the excellent 2014 movie about fighting aliens and time loops. Spoilers.











