Yesterday I learned of the passing of a friend from high school. It sent ripples through the classmates I keep up with from back then, because if there was one thing I […]
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Movie Review: Serpico – One Officer’s Moral Compass
Written by Peter Maas, Waldo Salt, and Norman WexlerDirected by Sidney Lumet Every time there is a scandal involving a police officer, people are shocked. What they don’t often realize is that […]
Book Review: Dead Folks’ Blues by Steve Womack – Too Predictable
Warning: Spoilers, although the plot wasn’t all that cryptic. Written in 1994, this is the first in a series about a former newspaper reporter turned private detective in Nashville, Tennessee. I found […]
Series Rewatch: Babylon 5 – The Quality of Mercy
Written by J. Michael StraczynskiDirected by Lorraine Senna At first, this seems like a terrific stand-alone episode of the series. Like many others, however, there’s a lot to this episode that will […]
Movie Review: Hanover Street – There Are Better Ways To Spend Two Hours and There Are Worse
Written by Peter HyamsDirected by Peter Hyams Released just before Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back and Raiders of the Lost Ark, Harrison Ford had yet to achieve the superstardom and high […]
U2: Zoo TV: Live From Sydney – What a Live DVD Should Look Like
When did life start going by so fast? When I checked out this disk from U2, I was thinking to myself that the Zoo TV Tour was about ten years ago. Looking […]
Book Review – Stalin’s Hammer: Paris by John Birmingham
This final novella in the series of three following events in the original Axis of Time trilogy wraps things up nicely while at the same time leaving open possibilities for more stories […]
Sharpe’s Challenge – Sharpe and Harper are Back
Written by Bernard Cornwell and Russell LewisDirected by Tom Clegg After having watched all of the Sharpe series previously, with Sean Bean’s success in film, I didn’t believe we would ever see […]
Nana and Boo Take NYC: Day 4
Last day! We had breakfast, once again, at the Embassy Suites. I had my usual omelet and Boo had a variety of yogurt, fruit & pastries. We packed everything up and checked […]
Book Review: House Rules by Jodi Picoult – Hits Very Close to Home
As the mother of a child on the autism spectrum, I knew House Rules would be a hard book for me and I was right. Along with being a compelling story and […]
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