My mother died 11 years ago today. It wasn’t unexpected. A reoccurrence of the breast cancer we thought she’d beaten popped up late in October of 2012 and it had metastasized. We knew she didn’t […]
The Greatest Generation is Disappearing
Movie Review: Daydream Believers: The Monkees Story – Some Truth, Some Fiction, Lots of Fun
Written by Ron McGee and Harold BronsonDirected by Neill Fearnley Sometime back around 1976, a local television station began re-running the television series The Monkees. I caught the fever that time around […]
Book Review: The Girl on the Boat by Kate Hewitt
Note: Thank you to NetGalley, Bookoutre, and Kate Hewitt for the advanced reader copy of the book. This review will also be posted on NetGalley. What follows is my unbiased review of the book. […]
DVD Review – Eleanor & Franklin: The Early Years – As Close To Being There as You’ll Get
Written by James Costigan and Joseph P. LashDirected by Daniel Petrie This award-winning mini-series was the product of an era when network television seemed to want to produce them in abundance. There […]
Book Review: Aden’s Chance by Michael Roberts – Keep On Riding, Pale Rider
Aden’s Chance is the fourth book in a time-travel/alternate history series by Michael Roberts. The premise here is a bit different, in that the main character is from a future that is different […]
Movie Review: Donnie Darko – Cult Goodness
Written by Richard KellyDirected by Richard Kelly Back around 2008, I’d heard so much about the film Donnie Darko, and yet I still didn’t know what I was in for when I […]
Book Review: Dead Poor by M.K. Coker – Life on the Fringes of Society
This is the seventh book in M.K. Coker’s series about South Dakota Sheriff Karen Mehaffey and her Uncle and Chief Detective Marek Okerlund. There’s a lot of background to the characters, and I […]
The Twilight Zone: Volume 17 – What You Want Is Not Always What You Need
The classic television show The Twilight Zone was created by veteran television writer Rod Serling in response to the pressure he received to modify his scripts by both the network censor and […]
Book Review: The Paris Assignment by Rhys Bowen – Good Story but Missing Something
Historical fiction is a genre I enjoy, and this book was suggested to me based on my previous reading of The Rose Code. I did enjoy the story quite a bit. I just found […]
Movie Review: My Big Fat Greek Wedding – Great Romantic Comedy
Written by Nia VardalosDirected by Joel Zwick Cultural humor can be a dicey subject. Quite often, even when there is humor to be found at a difference in cultures, there’s a tendency […]
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