Author: Inframundo Literario

Dev Patel is hopped up on the visual language and legacy of action cinema in Monkey Man, a walloping sucker punch of a debut feature from the star of Slumdog Millionaire and The Green Knight. Based on Patel’s original story, written alongside Paul Angunawela and John Collee, and produced by Jordan Peele through Monkeypaw Productions, the film is a blood and sweat slicked coming out party not just for a sharp new directorial talent, but a self-styled action star that no one expected.  Set in the fictional city of Yatana, Patel stars as Kid, a haunted young man who barely…

In August 2016, I received a text message from a witness, who I later called. He mentioned that he witnessed a ‘lizard man’ in Louisiana while driving home. I asked him to write down his account and email it to me.”Sir – as I told you on the telephone, I was driving north on I-55 about a 1/2 mile south of the Rt 10 overpass. This occurred last Wednesday (August 10th) around 11:15 PM. This was is in upper Tangipahoa Parish. I was on my way home in Jackson, MS.About 100 yards ahead, I saw something crossing the highway from…

The Bottom Line: A wildly imaginative and often exhilarating conspiracy thriller about jealousy, fear and mass deception. The Delusion opens as Emma Petranova, a thirtysomething psychology researcher, is preparing to attend a prestigious awards banquet. Until now, her life hasn’t gone as she had hoped. Years of toiling under her boss, Dr. D’Angelo Santan has gone publicly unrecognized. All her hopes and dreams seem to rest on the promise of winning an award at the banquet. She’s even been practicing her winning speech.  But when the big moment comes, Santan hogs the limelight. Worse, he briefly recognizes Emma’s colleague, Wilson Sinclair, but…

Just when you thought the Razzies couldn’t get any weirder, they went full horror show by awarding the tiny indie slasher “Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey” a grand slam of worst picture, director, screenplay and more. In a delicious twist of anti-prestige, this no-budget nightmare about a rampaging Winnie and Piglet turned childhood innocence into a gory, cannibalistic fever dream – and the Razzies rewarded it like a new cult classic. Director Rhys Frake-Waterfield seemed almost bewildered by the dubious honors. After all, his $50,000 backyard butcherfest was squaring off against nine-figure studio duds like “Meg 2: The Trench”…

The British Science Fiction Association has announced the shortlist for the 2023 BSFA Awards. The Green Man’s Quarry by Juliet McKenna (Wizard Tower) Descendant Machine by Gareth L. Powell (Titan) Airside by Christopher Priest (Gollancz) HIM by Geoff Ryman (Angry Robot) Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon by Wole Talabi (Gollancz) See Locus for the complete shortlists in all categories. The winners will be announced at Levitation, this year’s Eastercon, which runs March 29 – April 1, 2024 at Telford International Centre and online. Posted in Awards, British Science Fiction Association (BSFA) No comments yet. Add Your Comment Be…

TR-3B Black Triangle – In recent years, countless people have reported seeing flying objects of strange shapes (including triangular) and spectacular trajectories. Without ever challenging the existence of UFOs of alien origin, we must make it clear that some of such aircraft are in fact owned and used in the greatest secrecy by the US government. Only with the tremendous courage of some people who worked in different military bases, the truth about these aircraft’s was able to come to light, which is likely to hurry their future use in civil society for the benefit of all mankind. This is……

The Bottom Line: A mesmerizing crime thriller that deftly explores high society’s dark underbelly. Highly recommended.  The third installment in Douglas Stewart’s Detective Ratso series opens in Switzerland as a killer, who is obsessed with rigid adherence to schedules as well as numerical synchronicity, stalks his prey. While careful not to reveal the killers’ identity too early, we understand that he is OCD, highly intelligent and deliciously dark. He also loves his work. The murder of the sixty-one-year-old financier, who manages investments for a family of Ukrainian billionaires, is executed with Swiss precision. The killer soon surfaces again in London, where…

Love Lies Bleeding opens with an abstract shot from deep inside a chasm, looking up into the night sky. This shot haunted me as I watched the film and it continued to gain greater meaning as is so often the case in films of any artistic merit. From here the camera careens to a local gym where we meet Lou (Kristen Stewart) who, as we will find out, will experience not just love and lies, but bleeding as well when a new girl rolls into town. Writer and director Rose Glass, with co-writer Weronika Tofilska, spins a lurid tale of…

Rating: 7/10 Synopsis: About fifteen miles west of Stauford, Kentucky lies Devil’s Creek. According to local legend, there used to be a church out there, home to the Lord’s Church of Holy Voices—a death cult where Jacob Masters preached the gospel of a nameless god.And like most legends, there’s truth buried among the roots and bones.In 1983, the church burned to the ground following a mass suicide. Among the survivors were Jacob’s six children and their grandparents, who banded together to defy their former minister. Dubbed the “Stauford Six,” these children grew up amid scrutiny and ridicule, but their infamy…

The Bottom Line: A timely, gut-punch of a legal thriller that taps into an imperative global conversation about extremism and hate-fueled violence. Highly recommended.  The ninth book in Mark M. Bello’s Zachary Blake series opens in the Detroit suburbs, as the King of Justice attends the bar-mitzvah of his college friend’s son, Josh. Through spicy pre-ceremony banter, we learn that for Zack, bar-mitzvahs are far more than a rite of passage. He considers them an act of defiance in light of historical efforts to marginalize and exterminate Jews.  Just after the post-service speech, an explosion rips through the temple. Several guests are…