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Anne Rice’s Mayfair Witches (Season 1 Pilot review) | Written with Book Readers in Mind

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Esta Spalding and Michelle Ashford (Creators)CASTAlexandra DaddarioHarry HamlinTongayi ChirisaJack Huston Review: I read Anne Rice's The Witching Hour a few months before this episode premiered gave me enough distance to be more open to this adaptation. I knew there would be some changes since there's so much story, but starting the show with Deirdre's new … Continue reading Anne Rice’s Mayfair Witches (Season 1 Pilot review) | Written with Book Readers in Mind

The Witching Hour (Lives of the Mayfair Witches #1) by Anne Rice | Book Review

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From the author of the extraordinary Vampire Chronicles comes a huge, hypnotic novel of witchcraft and the occult through four centuries.Demonstrating, once again, her gift for spellbinding storytelling and the creation of legend, Anne Rice makes real for us a great dynasty of witches—a family given to poetry and to incest, to murder and to … Continue reading The Witching Hour (Lives of the Mayfair Witches #1) by Anne Rice | Book Review

Black Adam (Movie Review) | Don’t Think Too Much About It

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The long-awaited Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson lead superhero movie is here, directed by Jaume Collet-Serra who has assembled quite the cast to star alongside Johnson: Aldis Hodge, Pierce Brosnan, Noah Centineo, Quintessa Swindell, Sarah Shashi, and Marwan Kenzari to name a few. Premise: Nearly 5,000 years after he was bestowed with the almighty powers of … Continue reading Black Adam (Movie Review) | Don’t Think Too Much About It

The School for Good and Evil (Movie Review) | Smoothing out the kinks

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Having very recently read the first book by Soman Chainani with which I was a little frustrated. I wasn't quite sure what to expect from this movie. Paul Feig the director can be a bit of a mixed-bag quality-wise, and the only thing I've seen from David Magee is Mary Poppins' Return, which was just … Continue reading The School for Good and Evil (Movie Review) | Smoothing out the kinks

The School for Good and Evil by Soman Chainani | Book Review

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This year, best friends Sophie and Agatha are about to discover where all the lost children go: the fabled School for Good and Evil, where ordinary boys and girls are trained to be fairy-tale heroes and villains. As the most beautiful girl in Gavaldon, Sophie has dreamed of being kidnapped into an enchanted world her … Continue reading The School for Good and Evil by Soman Chainani | Book Review