Written by Michael Shaara and Dana StevensDirected by Sam Raimi I’ve been a baseball fan all my life, and a diehard Mets fan all that time. There are few films about baseball […]
Movie Review: For Love of the Game – Capturing the Spirit of Baseball
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.
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine – Season Seven on DVD (Original Release)
Fans knew when this season began that the series was winding down. There were so many unresolved issues by the end of the sixth season that needed to be resolved, or at […]
Book Review – Star Wars: Kenobi by John Jackson Miller – A Desert Recluse’s Secret Tale on Tatooine
Star Wars fans: If you’ve ever wondered what Obi-Wan Kenobi did in the years between Revenge of the Sith and A New Hope, here are some of the answers. If you have […]
Star Trek: The Next Generation – Season Seven on DVD – Final Season Review of Star Trek: The Next Generation
That the seventh season would be the final season of Star Trek: The Next Generation was well-known in advance. At the time, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine was also on the air. […]
Movie Review – Affliction: Or, “Drunk Man Abuses Family in a Small Town”
Written by Russell Banks and Paul SchraderDirected by Paul Schrader It took me several tries to get through this film. I’d tried to watch it once, and pretty much dismissed it when […]
Star Trek: The Next Generation – All Good Things… – Exploring the Finale of Star Trek: TNG
Written by Ronald D. Moore, Brannon Braga, Rene Echevarria, and Naren ShankarDirected by Winrich Kolbe When Gene Roddenberry first created his vision of the future, he saw it as a sort of […]
Book Review: Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder – Color Illustrations Bring the Story Alive
When I was about nine, a friend of the family gave me my first Little House book. I was immediately captivated by the stories within and read them over and over through […]
Star Trek: The Next Generation – Preemptive Strike – Ro Laren and the Maquis
Written by Rene Echevarria and Naren ShankarDirected by Patrick Stewart It was somewhat surprising that the second to last episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation focused not on a series regular, […]
Movie Review: Under the Tuscan Sun – Sometimes Our Wishes Are Answered in Ways We Don’t Expect
Written by Frances Mayes and Audrey WellsDirected by Audrey Wells I generally hate movies that depict the be-all-to-end-all of a woman’s life as finding “a good man” to settle down with. It […]
Star Trek: The Next Generation – Emergence – The Intelligent Enterprise
Written by Joe Menosky, Brannon Braga, Rene Echevarria, and Naren ShankarDirected by Cliff Bole After a series of episodes that were somewhat disappointing during the seventh and final season of Star Trek: […]
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