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November 28, 2025

Black Friday & Cyber Monday Super Coupon!

For Black Friday and Cyber Monday, you can get 25% off every single item in my Payhip store (both ebooks and audiobooks) with this coupon code:

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This coupon code will be valid through midnight (Central US time zone) on December 1st, 2025. So if you want to stock up on ebooks to read and audiobooks to listen to, this is a good time!

-JM

 

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Published on November 28, 2025 05:46

November 27, 2025

Happy Thanksgiving 2025!

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!

Well, 2025 has had a lot of the chaos and tumult of Modern Times, but for me personally 2025 has gone reasonably well, so I am thankful for that on top of the many other reasons for thankfulness.

As Abraham Lincoln said:

“Now, therefore, I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, do hereby appoint and set apart the last Thursday in November next as a day which I desire to be observed by all my fellow-citizens, wherever they may then be, as a day of thanksgiving and praise to Almighty God, the beneficent Creator and Ruler of the Universe. And I do further recommend to my fellow-citizens aforesaid that on that occasion they do reverently humble themselves in the dust and from thence offer up penitent and fervent prayers and supplications to the Great Disposer of Events for a return of the inestimable blessings of peace, union, and harmony throughout the land which it has pleased Him to assign as a dwelling place for ourselves and for our posterity throughout all generations.”

Of course, the idea is far older than Abraham Lincoln, as this quote from the Book of Deuteronomy shows:

“You may say to yourself, “My power and the strength of my hands have produced this wealth for me.” But remember the Lord your God, for it is he who gives you the ability to produce wealth, and so confirms his covenant, which he swore to your ancestors, as it is today.”

I’m very thankful that I get to write so much, and that so many of you have come along on the journeys of Ridmark, Gareth, Caina, Nadia, Talembur, the STEALTH & SPELLS crew, and Rivah Half-Elven in 2025.

-JM

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Published on November 27, 2025 07:20

November 26, 2025

BLADE OF SHADOWS now available!

I am pleased to report that BLADE OF SHADOWS, the second book in the BLADES OF RUIN epic fantasy series, is now available at Amazon US, Amazon UK, Amazon DE, Amazon CA, Amazon AU, Barnes and Noble, Kobo, Google Play, Apple Books, Payhip, and Smashwords.

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In a land riven by civil war, the undead rise to battle once again!

Talembur now knows what he must do – find Raven’s Keep and claim the sword hidden there.

But to do that, he must first locate the hidden stronghold and survive the many perils that threaten the realm of Owyllain.

And chief among them are the Bronze Dead, the ancient undead army of the dark elves.

For the Bronze Dead have been sleeping for centuries, but now they stir once more. Unless Talembur figures out who is waking up the Bronze Dead, the undead will cover Owyllain in their darkness…

-JM

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Published on November 26, 2025 07:01

November 25, 2025

The Pulp Writer Show, Autumn 2025 Movie Roundup – Frankenstein, Universal Monsters, The Naked Gun, and others

In this week’s episode, I rate the movies and streaming shows I saw in Autumn 2025.

You can listen to the show with transcript at the official Pulp Writer Show site, and you can also listen to it at SpotifyApple Podcasts Amazon MusicLibsyn, and YouTube.

-JM

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Published on November 25, 2025 05:50

November 24, 2025

Coupon of the Week, 11/24/2025

Once again it is time for Coupon of the Week!

This coupon code will get you 25% off the ebooks in The Ghosts series at my Payhip store:

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The coupon code is valid through December 1, 2025. So if you need a new ebook this fall, we’ve got you covered!

-JM

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Published on November 24, 2025 05:27

November 23, 2025

Jonathan Moeller vs Baldur’s Gate 3

Now that I finished SHATTERED SPACE, it’s time to try Baldur’s Gate 3 yet again.

I’ve tried Baldur’s Gate 3 twice before, and bounced off it both times.

This was kind of frustrating, partly because I had played BG1 and BG2 back in the Old Days, and partly because the game received such universal acclaim and I just couldn’t get my head around it.

I did get the game for PC when it came out in August 2023, even though I knew I wouldn’t have time to play it, but I wanted the soundtrack. So it has sat in my PC game library ever since.

I’ve mentioned before that to celebrate my 150th book (GHOST IN THE VEILS) back in March of 2024, I got a portable monitor. They’re designed for business travelers, and intended to be plugged into laptops in hotel rooms and the like so business travelers can have second screens whilst on the road. However, I realized that I could use the portable monitor on my lap connected to my Xbox, which let me play Xbox on the couch without monopolizing the TV.

As it turned out, this created a very comfortable gaming situation from an ergonomic perspective. That was when I seriously started playing STARFIELD, which was mostly what I played for the next year.

However, when Baldur’s Gate 3 was ported to Xbox, I decided to give it a go in summer 2024.

It didn’t really work for me. Part of the problem was that the Xbox port had a lot of issues and glitches, and tended to crash a lot, at least when I used it. Another issue is, that at least in my opinion, BG3 really needs a mouse and doesn’t translate well to a controller-based interface. I might be alone in that opinion since BG3 has sold a lot of copies on Playstation and Xbox, but it the game’s interface is very complex and works best with a mouse.

So I gave up on that and went back to STARFIELD, but in early 2025 my laptop died unexpectedly and I had no choice but to get a new one. It was a big upgrade over my previous one, so I thought to try BG3 on it.

The game worked, and I got farther than I had on the Xbox port. The problem was that the laptop gets very, very hot when running BG3, and the fans kick into maximum overdrive. That was uncomfortable enough that I stopped playing it after a while.

So, fast forward to November 2025. I saw a “free electronics recycling” event in the local area, which was a chance to get rid of some dead computers in the closet. Given how expensive it is to recycle e-waste generally, I jumped on the opportunity. But! I scavenged enough parts to build a reasonable gaming desktop tower, and I decided to put it next to the couch and connect it with my portable monitor.

So it’s time to try Baldur’s Gate 3 for the third time.

Playing it on adequate hardware is definitely an improvement, and not having a superheated laptop on my lap is also nice. The desktop tower next to the couch has a fan vent on the top, and if I hover my hand over it I can just feel the heat pouring off the CPU while playing BG3.

So this is my third attempt on the game. Let’s see if the third time is the charm!

-JM

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Published on November 23, 2025 16:48

November 21, 2025

Autumn 2025 Movie Roundup: The Classic Monsters, Frankenstein, & The Naked Gun

It’s time for the Autumn 2025 Movie Roundup. I watched a lot of classic horror movies this time around. The old Universal black-and-white monsters movies turned up on Prime for Halloween, and I hadn’t seen them since I was a kid, so I watched a bunch of them. It seemed appropriate for Halloween. They mostly held up as well as I remembered, which was a nice surprise!

As ever, grades are totally subjective and based on nothing more than my own opinions and thoughts.

With that, let’s take a look at the movies from least favorite to most favorite!

THE OTHER GUYS (2010)

A parody of the buddy cop/cowboy cop movie, along with a heavy critique of the reckless and corrupt culture of late 2000s Wall Street.

“Dumb funny” movies, I’ve noticed, tend to fall on either side of the “dumb but actually funny” or “dumb and not funny” line, and this one definitely landed on “dumb but actually funny.”

Danson and Highsmith, played by The Rock and Samuel L. Jackson, are two maverick, popular detectives who never do paperwork. Their paperwork is always done by Allen Gamble (Will Ferrell) and Terry Hoitz (Mark Wahlberg). Gamble is a mild-mannered forensic accountant, while Hotiz desperately wants to be as cool as either Danson or Highsmith, but since he accidentally shot Yankees player Derek Jeter, he’s a pariah with the police department.

However, Danson’s and Highsmith’s plot armor suddenly run out and they accidentally kill themselves in a darkly hilarious scene. Hoitz wants to step into their shoes, but Gamble has stumbled onto a potentially dangerous situation, and soon Hoitz and Gamble have to overcome their difficulties and unravel a complicated financial plot.

This was pretty funny and I enjoyed it. Amusingly, in Real Life someone like Gamble would be massively respected in whatever law enforcement agency he works for – someone who prepares ironclad paperwork and correct documentation that stands up in court in an invaluable asset in law enforcement work.

Overall grade: B

FANTASTIC 4: FIRST STEPS (2025)

I liked this, though to be honest I liked THUNDERBOLTS and SUPERMAN 2025 better.

I think my difficulty is that I’ve never really got the Fantastic Four as a concept and why they’re appealing. Maybe the Fantastic Four are one of those things you have to imprint on when you’re a kid to really enjoy, or maybe at my age the sort of retro-futurism of the Four, the idea that science, technology, and rational thought will solve all our problems, seems a bit naive after the last sixty-five years of history or so. Also, the idea of a naked silver space alien riding a surfboard does seem kind of ridiculous.

Anyway, the movie glides over the origin story of Reed Richards, Sue Storm, Johnny Storm, and Ben Grimm, and gets right into it. To their surprise, Reed and Sue find out that Sue is pregnant, which seemed unlikely due to their superpower-induced genetic mutations. Shortly after that, the Silver Surfer arrives and announces that Earth will be devoured by Galactus. The Four travel in their spaceship to confront Galactus, and realize that he is a foe far beyond their power. But Galactus offers them a bargain – if Reed and Sue give him their son, he will leave Earth in peace.

They refuse, and so it’s up to the Four to figure out a way to save Earth and Reed and Sue’s son.

A pretty good superhero movie all told. Though it is amusing how in every version of the character, Reed Richards is the Smartest Man On Earth but still can’t keep his mouth shut to save his life.

Overall grade: B

SUPERMAN (1978)

After seeing the 2025 version of SUPERMAN, I decided to watch the old ones from the 70s.

One of the progenitors of the modern superhero film.

Interestingly, it was one of the most expensive films ever made at that time, costing $55 million in 70s-era dollars, which are much less inflated than today. Rough back of the envelope calculation would put $55 million in the 70s worth at about $272 million today. Anyway, this paid off for the producers, since they got $300 million back, which would be like around $1.4 billion in 2025 money.

Anyway, the movie tells the origin story of Superman, how his father Jor-El knows that Krypton is doomed, so he sends Kal-El to earth. Kal-El is raised as Clark Kent by his adoptive Kansas parents, and uses his powers to become Superman, defender of truth, justice and the American way. But Superman must balance his growing feelings for ace reporter Lois Lane with his need for a secret identity and the necessity of stopping Lex Luthor’s dangerous schemes.

Christopher Reeve was an excellent Superman, and the special effects were impressive by the standards of 1978, but I think the weakest part of the movie were the villains. Lex Luthor just seemed comedic and not at all threatening.

Unexpected fun fact: Mario Puzo, author of THE GODFATHER, wrote the screenplay.

Overall grade: B

SUPERMAN II (1980)

A direct sequel to the previous movie. When Superman stops terrorists from detonating a nuclear bomb by throwing it into space, the blast releases the evil Kryptonian General Zod and his minions from their prison, and they decide to conquer Earth. Meanwhile, Superman is falling deeper in love with Lois Lane, and unknowing of the threat from Zod, decides to renounce his powers to live with Lois as an ordinary man.

I think this had the same strengths and problems as the first one. Christopher Reeve was an excellent Superman, the special effects were impressive by the standards of 1980, but the villains remained kind of comedic goofballs.

Additionally, and while this will sound harsh, this version of Lois Lane was kind of dumb, and her main function in the plot was to generate problems for Superman via her questionable decisions. Like, at the end Superman has to wipe her memory because she can’t keep his secret identity to herself. If this version of Lois Lane lived today, she’s be oversharing everything she ever thought on TikTok.

The 2025 movie version of Lois, by contrast, bullies Mr. Terrific into lending her his flying saucer so she can rescue Superman when he’s in trouble, and is instrumental in destroying Lex Luthor’s public image and triggering his downfall. 1970s Lois would have just had a meltdown and made things worse until Superman could rescue her.

Overall, I would say the 1978 movie was too goofy, the Zac Snyder SUPERMAN movies were too grimdark, but the 2025 SUPERMAN hit the right balance between goofy and serious.

Overall grade: B

DRACULA (1931)

One of the earliest horror movies, and also one of the earliest movies with sound.

It is a very compressed adaptation of the stage version of DRACULA. Like, imagine the theatrical stage version of DRACULA, but then imagine that the movie was only seventy minutes long, so you half to cut a lot to fit the story into those seventy minutes. So if you haven’t read the book, DRACULA the movie from 1931 will not make a lot of sense. It’s almost the “Cliff’s Notes Fast Run” version of DRACULA.

That said, Bela Lugosi’s famous performance as Dracula really carries the movie. Like Boris Karloff in FRANKENSTEIN and THE MUMMY (see below) he really captures the “uncanny valley” aspect of Dracula, because the Count isn’t human any more, and has all these little tics of a creature that isn’t human but only pretending to be one. Edward Van Sloan’s performance as Dr. Van Helsing is likewise good, and helped define the character in the public eye.

So, worth watching as a historical artifact, but BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN (see below) is much stronger.

Overall grade: B

THE HORROR OF DRACULA (1958)

This is one of the first of the Hammer Horror movies from the 1950s, starring Peter Cushing as Dr. Van Helsing and Christopher Lee as Count Dracula. It is also apparently the first vampire movie ever made in color.

Like the 1931 version of DRACULA, it’s a condensed version of the story, though frankly I think it hangs together better. Van Helsing is a bit more of an action hero in this one, since in the end he engages Dracula in fisticuffs. The movie is essentially carried by the charisma of Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee, and worth watching as a good example of a classic 50s horror movie.

Overall grade: B

THE WOLF MAN (1941)

Another one of the classic Universal horror movies, this one features Lon Chaney Jr as Larry Talbot, the younger son of Sir John Talbot. Larry’s older brother died in a hunting accident, so Larry comes home to reconcile with his father and take up his duties as the family heir. Larry is kind of an amiable Average Joe, and is immediately smitten by the prettiest girl in the village.

But when he takes her out for a walk, they’re attacked by a werewolf, who bites Larry.

Larry and everyone else in the village do not believe in werewolves, but they’re about to have their minds changed.

The transformation sequences when Larry turns into the Wolf Man were the cutting edge at the time, though poor Lon Chaney had to stay motionless for hours as they gradually glued yak hair to him. I think Claude Rains had the best performance in the movie as Sir John, and he’s almost the co-protagonist.

Overall grade: B

JURASSIC WORLD REBIRTH (2025)

A perfectly straightforward but nonetheless enjoyable adventure film.

After all the many disasters caused by various genetic engineering experiments in the previous movies, dinosaurs mostly live in relatively compatible ecosystems in tropical zones near the equator. No one’s looking to create a theme park with dinosaurs or created bio-engineered dinosaurs as military assets any longer. However, the dinosaurs are still valuable for research, and a pharmaceutical company is developing a revolutionary drug for treating cardiac disease.

They just need some dinosaur blood from three of the largest species to finish it, and so the company hires a team of mercenaries to retrieve the blood.

We have the usual Jurassic Park-style story tropes – the savvy mercenary leader, the scientist protesting the ethics of it all, the sinister corporate executive, the troubled family getting sucked into the chaos. And, of course, it all goes wrong and there are lots and lots of dinosaurs running around.

It’s all been done before, of course, but this was done well and was entertaining.

Overall grade: B+

THE THURDSAY MURDER CLUB (2025)

A cozy mystery set in a very high end retirement home.

Retired nurse Joyce movies into Coopers Chase, the aforementioned high end retirement home. Looking to make new friends, she falls in a former MI6 agent named Liz, a retired trade unionist named Ron, and psychiatrist Ibrahim, who have what they call the “Thursday Murder Club”, where they look into cold cases and attempt to solve them. However, things are not all sunshine and light at Coopers Chase, as the two owners of the land have fallen out. When one of them is murdered, the Thursday Murder Club has to solve a real murder before Coopers Chase is bulldozed to make high-end apartments.

A good cozy mystery with high caliber acting talent. Both Pierce Brosnan and Jonathan Pryce are in the movie, and regrettably do not share a scene together. Which would have been hilarious, since they were both in the James Bond movie TOMORROW NEVER DIES in the 90s, with Brosnan as Bond and Pryce as the Bond villain for the movie.

Overall grade: B+

THE CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON (1954)

One of the last of the black and white classic horror movies, since color film was coming along.

When a scientist finds an usual half-fish/half-human fossil near a riverbank in Brazil, he decides to organize an expedition upriver to see if he can find the rest of the fossil. The trail leads his expedition to the mysterious Black Lagoon, which all the locals avoid because of its bad reputation.

But a living member of the species that produced the fossil is lurking in the lagoon, and while it normally doesn’t welcome visitors, it does like the one female member of the expedition and decides to claim her for its own.

The Creature was a good monster, and the underwater sequences were impressive by the standards of the 1950s.

Overall grade: A-

THE INVISIBLE MAN (1933)

Another of the classic Universal black and white horror movies.

Jack Griffin is a scientist who discovered a chemical formula for invisibility. Unfortunately, one of the drugs in his formula causes homicidal insanity, so he becomes a megalomaniac who wants to use his invisibility to rule the world. This causes Griffin to overlook the numerous weaknesses of his invisibility, which allow the police to hunt him down.

The Invisible Man special effects were state of the art at the time, and definitely hold up. Worth watching as another classic of the genre. Claude Rains plays Griffin, and as with THE WOLF MAN, his performance as Griffin descends into homicidal insanity are one of the strengths of the movie.

Overall grade: A-

THE MUMMY (1932)

Another of the original Universal black and white horror movies.

Boris Karloff plays the Mummy, who is the ancient Egyptian priest Imhotep, who was mummified alive for the crime of desiring the pharaoh’s daughter Ankh-es-en-Amon. After three thousand years, Imhotep is accidentally brought back to life when an archaeologist reads a magical spell, and Imhotep sets out immediately to find the reincarnation of his beloved and transform her into a mummy as well, so they can live together forever as undead.

Edward Van Sloan plays Dr. Mueller, who is basically Van Sloan’s character Van Helsing from DRACULA, if Van Helsing specialized in mummy-hunting rather than vampire-hunting.

This version of the Mummy acts more like a Dungeons & Dragons lich instead of the now-classic image of a shambling mummy in dragging bandages. That said, Boris Karloff is an excellent physical actor, and as he does with FRANKENSTEIN, he brings Imhotep to life. His performance captures the essence of a creature that hasn’t been human for a very long time, is trying to pretend to be human, and isn’t quite getting there.

Of course, the plot was reused for the 1999 version of THE MUMMY with Brendan Fraser. That was excellent, and this is as well.

Overall grade: A-

THE WEDDING SINGER (1998)

Basically, the Adam Sandler version of a Hallmark movie.

Adam Sandler plays Robbie, a formerly famous musician whose career has lapsed and has become a wedding singer and a venue singer. He befriends the new waitress Julia at the venue, played by Drew Barrymore. The day after that, Robbie is abandoned at the altar by his fiancee, which is understandably devastating. Meanwhile, Julia’s fiancee Glenn proposes to her, and Robbie agrees to help her with wedding planning since he’s an expert in the area and knows all the local vendors.

However, in the process Robbie and Julia fall in love but are in denial about the fact, a situation made more tense when Robbie realizes Glenn is cheating on Julia and intends to do so after the wedding.

So, basically a Hallmark movie filtered through the comic sensibilities of Adam Sandler. It was very funny, and Steve Buscemi always does great side characters in Adam Sandler movies.

Overall grade: A

DOWNTON ABBEY: THE GRAND FINALE (2025)

This was sort of a self-indulgent victory lap, but it was earned. The writers of the sitcom COMMUNITY used to joke that they wanted six seasons and a movie. DOWNTON ABBEY got six seasons and THREE movies.

Anyway, this movie is about handing off things to the next generation. Lord Grantham is reluctant to fully retire as his daughter goes through a scandal related to her divorce. The next generation of servants takes over as the previous ones ease into retirement. What’s interesting is that both the nobles and the servants are fully aware they’re sort of LARPing a historical relic. By 1930, grand country houses like Downton were increasingly rare in the UK, since World War I wiped out most of them and crippling postwar taxes and economic disruption finished off many more.

Anyway, if you liked DOWNTON ABBEY, you’ll like this movie.

Overall grade: A

ARGO (2012)

A very tense thriller about the Iranian hostage crisis in 1979. During that particular crisis, six Americans escaped the embassy and hid out at the Canadian ambassador’s house in Tehran. For obvious reasons, the Canadian ambassador wanted them out as quickly as possible, so the CIA and the State Department needed to cook up a plan to get the six out while the rest of the government tried to figure out what to do about the larger group of hostages.

Finally, the government comes up with “Argo” – a CIA operative will create a fake film crew, and smuggle the six out of Tehran as part of the production.

This movie was very tense and well-constructed, even if you know the outcome in advance. Ben Affleck directed and starred, and this was in my opinion one of his best performances. It did take some liberties with historical accuracy, but nonetheless a very tense political thriller/heist movie with some moments of dark comedy.

Overall grade: A

THE NAKED GUN (2025)

A pitch-perfect parody of the Gritty Cop movie with a lot of absurdist humor, which works well because Liam Neeson brings his Grim Action Persona to the movie, and it works really well with the comedy.

Neeson plays Lieutenant Frank Drebin, Jr, the son of the original Frank Drebin from the THE NAKED GUN movies back in the 1980s. After stopping a bank robbery, Drebin finds himself investigating the suicide of an engineer for the sinister tech mogul Richard Cane. Naturally, the suicide isn’t what it appears, and when the engineer’s mysterious but seductive sister asks for Drebin’s help, he pushes deeper into the case.

Richard Cane was a hilarious villain because the writers couldn’t decide which tech billionaire to parody with him, so they kind of parodied all of them at once.

And, I kid you not, the original Frank Drebin makes an appearance as a magical owl. It was hilarious.

Overall grade: A

And now for my two favorite things I saw in Autumn 2025.

FRANKENSTEIN / BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN (1931 & 1935)

Two separate movies, but FRANKENSTEIN leads directly to BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN so I’m going to treat them as one movie. Honestly, I think they’re two halves of the same story the way that AVENGERS: INFINITY WAR and AVENGERS: ENDGAME would be two halves of the same story ninety years later, so I’ll review them as one.

FRANKENSTEIN by itself would get a B. Colin Clive’s performance as Dr. Henry Frankenstein was great, and Boris Karloff gives the Creature a suitable are of menace and uncanny valley. You really feel like he’s something that’s been brought to life but isn’t quite right and is still extremely dangerous. The movie does have a very pat ending that implies everyone will live happily ever after, with Dr. Frankenstein’s father giving a toast to his son.

But BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN takes everything from the first movie and improves on it. It’s one of those sequels that actually makes the preceding movie better.

In BRIDE, Henry is recovering from his ordeal, and swears off his experiments of trying to create artificial humans. But the Creature survived the fire at the windmill, and is seeking for a new purpose. Meanwhile, Henry receives a visit from his previous mentor, the sinister Dr. Pretorius. Like Henry, Pretorius succeeded in creating artificial life, and he now wants to work with Henry to perfect their work. But Henry refuses, horrified by the consequences of his previous experiments.

Pretorius, undaunted, makes an alliance with the Creature, who then kidnaps Henry’s wife. This will let Pretorius force Henry to work on their ultimate work together – a bride for the Creature.

BRIDE OF FRAKENSTEIN is a lot tighter than FRANKENSTEIN, and it was surprising to see how rapidly filmmaking techniques evolved over just four years. Pretorius is an excellent villain, more evil wizard than mad scientist, and the scene where he calmly and effortlessly persuades the Creature to his side was excellent.

One amusing note – BRIDE was framed as Mary Shelley telling the second half of the story to her friends, and then the actress playing Mary Shelley also played the Bride. So that was a funny bit of meta humor.

FRANKENSTEIN/BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN combined is one of my two favorite movies of Fall 2025.

Overall grade: A+

FRANKENSTEIN (2025)

Honestly, I think Guillermo del Toro’s version of Frankenstein is the best version put to screen so far, and it even does the rarest of all feats – it improves a little on the original novel.

Oscar Isaac plays Victor Frankenstein as a brilliant, driven scientist with something of a sociopathic edge. In other words, he’s a man who’s utterly inadequate to the task when his experiment succeeds and he actually creates an artificial human out of assembled dead body parts. Jacob Elordi does a good job as the Creature, playing him as essentially a good-hearted man who is driven to violence and despair by the cruelty and rejection of the world. The recurring question of the Frankenstein mythos is whether or not Victor Frankenstein is the real monster, and in this version, he definitely is, though he gets a chance to repent of his evil by the end.

Honestly, everything about this was good – the performances, the cinematography, everything. How good was it? I was so good that I will waive my usual one-grade penalty for unnecessary nudity, since there are a few brief scenes of it.

Overall grade: A+

So that was the Autumn 2025 movie roundup.  A lot of good movies this time around, and while some movies were better than others, I didn’t see anything I actively disliked.

-JM

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Published on November 21, 2025 06:21

November 20, 2025

BLADE OF SHADOWS Table of Contents

I am far enough along to share the Table of Contents for BLADE OF SHADOWS!

If all goes well, the book should be out next week.

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Published on November 20, 2025 05:30

November 19, 2025

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Making good progress on editing for BLADE OF SHADOWS.

That means it’s time to share that if you subscribe to my newsletter, you’ll get a free ebook copy of the short story ELVEN ARROW when BLADE OF SHADOWS comes out next week.

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Published on November 19, 2025 06:10

November 18, 2025

The Pulp Writer Show, Episode 277: Digital Content Ownership For Readers & Writers

In this week’s episode, we discuss the advantages of digital content ownership for both readers and writers.

You can listen to the show with transcript at the official Pulp Writer Show site, and you can also listen to it at SpotifyApple Podcasts Amazon MusicLibsyn, and YouTube.

-JM

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Published on November 18, 2025 06:05