Written by Michele Fazekas, Tara Butters, Christopher Markus, Stephen McFeely, Stan Lee, and Jack KirbyDirected by Christopher Misiano Everything this season has been building to this. We’ve arrived at the finale for […]
Patti Aliventi
Once upon a time there was this website called Epinions. I wrote thousands of reviews there. I love books, movies, and television; mostly science fiction. I'm a gun-totin', meat-eatin' liberal with libertarian leanings who will voice my opinion.
Book Review: Late, Late at Night by Rick Springfield
I confess to having a huge crush on Rick Springfield for most of my life. Indeed, I was only eight years old when the cartoon Mission Magic came out, but I was […]
Star Trek: The Savage Curtain – Aside From the Spear in Your Back, How Did You Enjoy Your Resurrection Mr. Lincoln?
Written by Arthur Heinemann, Arthur H. Singer, and Gene RoddenberryDirected by Herschel Daugherty The aliens of the universe seem to want to keep testing humanity (or the Federation, at least) to see […]
Movie Review: Pride of the Yankees – A Baseball Fairy-Tale Based on a Real Story
Written by Paul Gallico, Jo Swerling, and Herman J. MankiewiczDirected by Sam Wood Throughout the years of baseball, many of the heroes of the era have had their images torn down and […]
Book Review: Days of Infamy by Harry Turtledove – If The Japanese Had Invaded Hawaii?
There’s a genre in fiction known as alternate history. It usually gets lumped in with science fiction, although in reality it’s somewhere between that and history. The premise usually involves taking some […]
Movie Review: Raising Victor Vargas – Hot Time, Summer in the City?
Written by Eva Vives and Peter SollettDirected by Peter Sollett Teenagers are both the same and somewhat different no matter where you go. Small towns have problems somewhat different than that of […]
A Life-Long Mets Fan Visits Citifield for the First Time
I lived just outside of NYC for the first 39 years of my life. We moved away 16 years ago this October, and I haven’t been back much since then. Through it […]
Book Review: Bridgerton – An Offer From a Gentleman by Julia Quinn
Here we are in the third book of the Bridgerton fairy-tale. Yes, I am one of the late-comers to the series, having become sucked in by the Netflix series. It was so […]
Time to Watch the Doctor – Doctor Who: The Robots of Death – Before the Borg…
Written by Chris BoucherDirected by Michael E Briant Doctor Who is a British science fiction television series which has been around off and on since 1963. The main character is just known […]
Movie Review: Twister – The Tornadoes Get the Best Story
Written by Michael Crichton and Anne-Marie MartinDirected by Jan de Bont Being a Weather Channel junkie, I was already pretty familiar with storm chasers and what they did prior to the 1996 […]
