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Author: Andrea Rittschof
Blink Twice: Brilliant Details
When I first heard of Blink Twice, I was excited to hear Zoe Kravitz was directing. Then, I saw the cast, an incredible lineup of talented stars and I couldn’t wait to see this movie. Just as with the title, I highly recommend you don’t blink, pay attention to all the brilliant details in this…
Between the Temples: Quirky and Upbeat
When I saw the trailer for Between the Temples, I found myself fascinated and hopeful. With both Jason Schwartzman and Carol Kane in the movie, I knew both are very capable actors and funny. Once I watched the film, I was struck by how quirky and upbeat it is as it explores how messy and…
Rules For Ghosting by Shelly Jay Shore: Profoundly Emotional
Ezra Friedman sees ghosts, which made growing up in a funeral home complicated. It might have been easier if his grandfather’s ghost didn’t give him scathing looks of disapproval as he went through a second, HRT-induced puberty, or if he didn’t have the pressure of all those relatives—living and dead—judging every choice he makes. It’s…
Rise and Divine by Lana Harper: Enthralling and Complex
Even in a family of chaotic necromancers, Daria “Dasha” Avramov has always been an outlier. An event planner at the Arcane Emporium occult megastore, Dasha is also a devil eater: a rare necromantic witch with an affinity for banishing demons and traversing the veil, the boundary between this realm and the next. Still grieving…
The Other Ones by Fran Hart: Hidden Depths
Salem Amani is a world-weary sixteen-year-old living with his mother and older sister in a haunted house. But all Sal really wants is to be ordinary, which is hard to do when you live in a house full of ghosts. And when a strange boy arrives on his doorstep asking more questions than he’s at…
Twisted Magic by Barbara J. Webb: Detailed World
His magic could heal anything–except a broken heart. The war is over, and Korin has come to Triome, the greatest city in the world, for a fresh start. But Triome holds its own secrets, and Korin may not have left all his enemies behind. A disease stalks the city, a disease made of magic that…
Agony Hill by Sarah Stewart Taylor: Thoughtful Mystery
Set in rural Vermont in the volatile 1960s, Agony Hill is the first novel in a new historical series full of vivid New England atmosphere and the deeply drawn characters that are Sarah Stewart Taylor’s trademark. In the hot summer of 1965, Bostonian Franklin Warren arrives in Bethany, Vermont, to take a position as a…
Kneecap: Music is the Star
Anything that is music based is always of interest to me and this one even more so with the use of the Irish language. I was very hopeful that it would be an interesting film and I wasn’t disappointed. The film was riotously colorful, unique and full of intriguing characters. While the story is fun,…
The Ornithologist’s Field Guide to Love by India Holton: Witty and Fun
Beth Pickering is on the verge of finally capturing the rare deathwhistler bird when Professor Devon Lockley swoops in, stealing both her bird and her imagination like a villain. Albeit a handsome and charming villain, but that’s beside the point. As someone highly educated in the ruthless discipline of ornithology, Beth knows trouble when she…
“Twisters”: Exciting and Emotional
In a summer full of action movies, I wondered if “Twisters” would have what it took to stand out. A sequel to the 1996 Twister, I also was curious how it compared with the original film. But I was pleasantly surprised with a film that is exciting and emotional, with a cast of colorful characters,…
