Ikebukuro West Gate Park (池袋ウエストゲートパーク) – Kankurō Kudō (Screenwriter) and Ira Ishida (Original novel series)

A great detective series for everyone; including non-fans of such shows In 2005, I discovered Ira Ishida's novel Ikebukuro West Gate Park; a series of stories set around the Ikebukuro neighborhood in Tokyo and the adventures that former High School delinquent Makoto Majima lives there as he resides with his mother and manages her fruit …

Picnic at Hanging Rock – Joan Lindsey (author)

“Everything begins and ends at exactly the right time and place.” - Irma Some books capture your attention right away. Haunting you from their first pages and premise so that even after the book ends, your insides are turned upside down. As if you had uncovered a new perspective to life. To a new plane …

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets – Harry Potter series: Year 2 – J K Rowling (author)

"The Chamber of Secrets has been opened! Enemies of the heir...beware." - Message written on the school's wall When J K Rowling released Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets, the reactions it got were strong and divisive. Indeed, if readers felt that the first book was an impeccable masterpiece, they thought the second was …

Friday the 13th (Part 1) – Friday the 13th movie series – Sean S. Cunningham (Director) and Victor Miller (Screenwriter)

"You're going to Camp Blood, ain't ya? You'll never come back again. It's got a death curse!" Within the horror film genre, Friday the 13th has a particular place in the hearts of many. Loved by fans, criticised by detractors. For its proponents, a great thriller series involving a serial killer striking his victims on …

Manhattan Murder Mystery – Woody Allen and Marshall Brickman (screenwriter)

"Claustrophia and a dead body - this is a neurotic's jackpot! -" Larry Lipton During the writing of Annie Hall, Woody Allen and Marshall Brickman had an idea of a murder mystery set in Manhattan. Though they first thought about the idea if Annie Hall and Alvie Singer would go through such an adventure, Brickman …

Hotel Dusk Room 215 – Nintendo and Cing – Updated version of my Amazon review

Excellent interactive mystery novel! When I first played this game in 2007, I felt like I was more than playing a video game. Instead, I believed I was reading a novel, and a pretty great one. One set inside an American Hotel; a few days before the 1980 New Year Day's eve. With each chapter …

L.A. Noire – Team Bondi and Rockstar Games – Updated version of my Amazon Review

A Great cop game done under unpleasant work conditions Released by Team Bondi amidst huge controversies between its founder and his employees, L.A. Noire is a video game that got stuck during seven years of 'development hell' (2004-2011). Set in 1946-1947, it is the story of a young police officer (Cole Phelps) who quickly becomes …

Desperate Housewives – ABC Studios

A good game overfilled with too much bugs and crashes that it ruins the fun Making a video game doesn't necessarily means that you have to have to be over realistic. Why, there are games with very simple designs and visuals on PC, like Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, or the first one …

Diabolique (Les Diaboliques) – Henri-Georges Clouzot

"A painting is always quite moral when it is tragic and it presents the horror of the things it depicts" - Barbey D'Aurevilly The French Suspense Shocker that forewarned Hitchcock's Psycho. A movie based on the novel "Celle qui n'était plus là"; whose authors (Thomas Narcejac and Pierre Boileau) had written another work, "D'entre les …

The Typewriter – Jean Cocteau

A Mystery Drama seen through the Jean Cocteau angle   Play that has been hacked and attacked in the press by collaborators and enemies of Jean Cocteau, the first representations of "The Typewriter" were harsh. But in the end, this story remains a magnificent Mystery story. That of a community assailed by anonymous letters from …