On Haunted Homes: TERRIFIED, INFIDEL, and MALEVOLENT I love October. It’s a time of year when publishers put out their yearly measure of horror novels, and I’ve finally made peace with the end of summer and the days getting…
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It’s Friday and we are over at Kirkus. Today, Ana finally musters the courage to talk about her feelings for Coco Warning: LOTS OF CRYING AHEAD…
Disclaimer: This post contains spoilers for the movie Logan. Logan was probably my most highly anticipated film release of 2017, and I made plans to see it with a friend when it came out in March. Unlike my friend—and…
Spider-Man: Homecoming is the best Spider-Man movie When I first heard that there would be yet another Spider-Man reboot, I confess I was one of the many voices who said “Again?” and also “Do we need another origin story…
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Over at Kirkus: Arrival and Story of Your Life
It’s Friday and we are over at Kirkus! Today, Ana does a compare/contrast of Arrival, the new movie with Amy Adams and Ted Chiang’s short story Story of Your Life that inspired it. Go over there to check it…
Spoilers for Ghostbusters, obviously. Nostalgia is a funny thing. I was eight years old when Ghostbusters came out and, as many of my generation, I watched it and its sequel at the movies, with a couple of subsequent viewings…
Welcome to Halloween Week 2015! Over the course of the week, you will hear from guest authors, bloggers, and your very own Book Smugglers about all things Halloween–including reviews of horror novels and films, essays on the genre, and…
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Old School Wednesdays May Watchalong (Summer Movie Series): Willow
As you probably know by now, Old School Wednesdays is a weekly Book Smuggler feature. We came up with the idea towards the end of 2012, when we were feeling exhausted from the never-ending inundation of New and Shiny…
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From the Page to the Screen: All You Need is Kill / Edge of Tomorrow
Hello everyone! For this edition of From the Page to the Screen, we will discuss All You Need is Kill / Edge of Tomorrow. The official timeline: 2004: the book, All You Need is Kill, a Japanese science fiction…