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Comic Title: "Sweet Home" Comic Author: Kim Carnby Release Date: October 2017 - July 2020 Country: South Korea Sweet Home is a Korean apocalyptic thriller comic produced by the collaboration between the author, Kim Carnby and illustrator, Hwang Young-chan. First published in October 2017, it has a total of around 140 chapters with its final chapter published in July 2020. The comic has become a huge success with a global readership and a Netflix adaptation into series of the same title which further popularizes the work. It follows the story of a high school social recluse named Cha Hyun-soo who is estranged from his family and friends. Not much is known about the family, except that his father is rarely at home due to preoccupation with his career while Hyun always distances himself from outside world. Secluding himself in his own room, he spends much of his days playing video games and even avoid school altogether. So one day his family arranges for a special tr...

Movie Title: "Deep" Release Date: July 2021 Country: Thailand This is a Thai sci-fi thriller movie released on Netflix just about several days ago. As a lover of sci-fi genre I jump at the chance to watch this movie after reading the positive reviews written by other people about this movie. However this movie is not as great as how the reviews depict them to be.... This movie features Jane, a medical student top scorer who is shown to have symptoms of OCD like constantly checking the locks at night multiple times although she has locked them for sure and has excessive worries about the house safety. At the same time, she is working hard to balance her life between studying rigorously for her exams, cooking and selling breakfast meals to help pay the mortgage and taking care of her grandmother and insouciant younger sister. The anxiety, the relentless studying schedule and the heavy responsibility on her shoulders have cost her proper sleeps at night, turning her into an...

Tajuk Buku: "The Woman in The Window" Penulis Buku: A.J. Finn Tahun Penerbitan: 2018 Baru-baru ini Netflix telah menayangkan sebuah filem bertajuk "The Woman in The Window" yang merupakan sebuah adaptasi kepada novel dengan tajuk sama yang diterbitkan pada tahun 2018 oleh sebuah syarikat penerbitan di bawah HarperCollins. Buku ini bergenre thriller dan merupakan novel pertama tulisan Daniel Mallory yang menggunakan nama pena "A.J Finn". Novel ini mengisahkan seorang wanita bernama "Anna Fox", seorang ahli psikologi kanak-kanak yang pada masa yang sama merupakan seorang penghidap "Agoraphobia", sejenis kecelaruan keresahan (anxiety disorder) yang menyebabkan penghidapnya berasa gelisah secara melampau untuk meninggalkan rumahnya dan akan menjadi cemas secara keterlaluan sekiranya berada di tempat terbuka, di dalam kenderaan atau di dalam mana-mana premis tertutup selain rumahnya sendiri. Lantaran penyakitnya itu, Anna tidak pernah ke...