Sometimes life just thrusts a mystery upon you. Take the case of Nancy Drew and The Clue of the Black Keys. The eighteen-year-old detective is minding her own business walking through the […]
Book Review: The Clue of the Black Keys – Nancy Drew Hunts for a Treasure
Movie Review: Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life – Oh, Fishy, Fishy, Fishy Fish!
Written by Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, & Michael PalinDirected by Terry Jones There are two types of people in the world – those that love Monty […]
Book Review – Beyond Jefferson by Christa Dierksheide – Race, Identity, and History
Note: Thank you to NetGalley, Yale University Press, and author Christa Dierksheide for the advanced reader copy of this book. This review will also be posted on NetGalley. What follows is my unbiased […]
Movie Review: Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest – The Evolution of Jack Sparrow in the Franchise
Written by Ted Elliott, Terry Rossio, and Stuart BeattieDirected by Gore Verbinski In the case of trilogies, they seem to follow the general pattern that the first movie is great, the second […]
Audiobook Review: Savage Run by C.J. Box – Environmental Tension in Wyoming
This is the second book in author C.J. Box’s series about Wyoming Game Warden Joe Pickett. First published in 2002, this was at a time when not everyone had cell phones, and […]
Series Rewatch – Babylon 5: Convictions – Tension and Spirituality in Babylon 5
Written by J. Michael StraczynskiDirected by Michael Vejar There’s a scene in this episode that I would have sworn was different than what aired. Perhaps I am confusing it with another scene […]
Audiobook Review: Brothers by Alex Van Halen – Brothers in Music
As a teenager in the late 1970s and early 1980s, Van Halen played a big part in my music experience. Their “big sound” was a contrast to the intricacies of “new wave” […]
Book Review: “Cy” Williams Baseball’s Most Unique Star Slugger by Gary Williams – The Overlooked Baseball Pioneer
Note: Thank you to NetGalley, BooksGoSocial, and author Gary Williams for the advanced reader copy of this book. This review will also be posted on NetGalley. What follows is my unbiased review of […]
DVD Review: The Blue and the Gray – The Impact of The Mini-Series on Television History
There was a time when the mini-series was a television event. Beginning with Roots, networks would plan for multiple-night showings of an adaptation of some literary work. Most of these were quite […]
Book Review – United We Drink: 50 Cocktail Recipes Inspired by the US Presidents – Mixing Drinks with Political Flair
Note: Thank you to NetGalley and Harper Celebrate for the advanced reader copy of this book. This review will also be posted on NetGalley. What follows is my unbiased review of the book. […]
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