Nicholas Bruner's Blog

Of the classic movie monsters, my favorite is Frankenstein’s monster, so I was keenly interested to see this new version, directed by Guillermo del Toro. Oddly, I had a hard time finding a movie theater that was playing it. I live in an area...

Prometheus came out in 2012 as a prequel to the Alien franchise, set a couple hundred years before the other movies. I’ve reviewed nearly all the movies in the series here, and they really run the gamut. The first Alien movie is one of...

Here’s a Halloween-themed horror movie that’s been highly recommended to me by other horror fans a couple times over the years, so I was eager to see it. I think it could be filed under the category of cult classic. It was certainly cleverly...

Softly, As I Leave You: Life After Elvis is a 2025 autobiography by Priscilla Presley detailing her life post Elvis. This memoir picks up from where Priscilla’s first book: Elvis and Me, left off. Priscilla broadly describes leaving Elvis in this memoir so she...

Thanks for this review go to our guest reviewer, the lovely and perceptive Corinne Dion! Corinne has interests in horror and opera, among other things, and will be providing occasional reviews on this site! World War Z, an action horror film that premiered in...

Every year I have a themed horror movie festival with my daughter in October, and this year’s theme is Halloween itself. So what better movie to start with than Halloween, the film named after the holiday? Now, I have to admit, slasher films are...

This latest sequel in the 28 … Later zombie franchise reminds me of 2024’s A Quiet Place: Day One in that it starts off as a regular horror movie, but ends up as something else entirely, and it’s a little hard to describe what,...

No One Would Listen, a 2010 autobiography, is a financial thriller written by the Madoff Ponzi scheme whistleblower, Harry Markopolos. This book gives a first-hand account of the massive fraud investigation into Bernie Madoff, an infamous admitted mastermind of the largest known Ponzi scheme in history,...

Gwyneth: The Biography, a 2025 biography by Amy Odell, is a well-researched and thorough read on Gwyneth Paltrow’s life so far. Ms. Odell’s deep dive into Gwyneth’s extraordinary world of privilege and opportunity provides glimpses of Gwyneth from childhood into middle age. The book...

My Life So Far, a 2005 memoir authored by Jane Fonda, is an autobiographical masterpiece. Jane Fonda takes the reader on her life journey sharing her mistakes and triumphs with honesty, humility, and depth. Unlike many celebrity autobiographies which skim the surface of their...