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Earlier this month, I took my dog for a walk on Mount Tabor. It has an off-leash dog park that’s so large, you can walk for five minutes without seeing anyone. That’s not typically the case, but when there’s crummy weather, it certainly can be. And it just so happened to be raining that day. …
The monster from A Quiet Place should win an academy award. Its performance was amazing. Seriously. I remember the first time I saw it—a promising young actor in the 2006 indie flick The Host. The film became a cult favorite, but it didn’t quite launch the monster’s career. It was more of a nuanced role anyways. Two …
Recently, I was invited back to my high school to speak with a creative writing class about indie publishing. It was a great experience. The thing I enjoyed most was answering the students’ questions. Unfortunately, we ran out of time before I could get to them all. But one of those students contacted me through …
The Ritual, based on the novel by Adam Nevill, is one of those films that manages to accomplish a lot with very little. Everything about it seems grandiose on paper: set in the breathtaking wilderness of Sweden, four friends attempt to cut their hiking trip in half by taking a “shortcut” through the woods. I swear to …