There is great debate going on right now about masks in schools. Honestly, I don’t see why it’s an issue. It seems to me to be pretty cut-and-dried that children can’t be […]
The Great Mask Debate: Sending Your Child to Potentially Die on Your Sword
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 – Two Steps Forward, One Step Back: My Life in the Music Business by Miles Copeland III
I turned 18 in the year 1984. I say this, because I approached this book as a memoir of my formative years. Music was very important to me at the time. I […]
Movie Review: Finding Nemo – There’s No Place Like Home, Even If It’s An Anemone
Written by Andrew Stanton, Bob Peterson, and David ReynoldsDirected by Andrew Stanton and Lee Unkrich Pixar continued it’s string of great animated children’s films with Finding Nemo. Like many other offerings from […]
RIU Palace Peninsula All-Inclusive in Cancun, Mexico – July 2021
This year, my spouse turned 57; not a milestone birthday, but with everything that’s gone on this past year, it’s one I wanted to celebrate. I looked around at various options. I […]
Book Review: Too Late to Die by Bill Crider
In a small Texas town, everyone knows each other. There are also numerous secrets bubbling beneath the surface. When Jeanne Clinton is found murdered, it threatens to throw the sleepy town into […]
Movie Review: It Happened One Night – A Classic Romantic Comedy, Period
Written by Samuel Hopkins Adams and Robert RiskinDirected by Frank Capra My exposure to Clark Gable can be stated in four words: Gone With the Wind. As much as he is revered […]
DVD Review – Walt Disney Treasures: Mickey Mouse in Living Color Volume 2 -1939 to Today
Believe it or not, there was a time when Mickey Mouse was known as more than a theme park icon. Many children of today know Mickey Mouse primarily as a character at […]
DVD Review: 2000 Years of Christianity Episode IX: God and the Burdened
This is the ninth part of a 13-part German documentary mini-series covering the history of Christianity from its beginnings to the modern day. Although the series is a German production, the narration […]
Book Review: Shoeless Joe by W.P. Kinsella – Field of Dreams with J.D. Salinger
This book was the basis for the film Field of Dreams. A few things have been changed (J.D. Salinger apparently was not willing to be represented in the film), but if you […]
Ken Burns: The Congress – Showing the Government Of and By The Common Man
This documentary, which was originally a part of a series about America produced by noted documentarian Ken Burns, is a portrait of both the building Congress inhabits as well as the Congress […]
