Survivor in Death by J. D. Robb Pros: Decent character development Cons: Not the strongest mystery in the world Survivor In Death is the 20th book in J.D. Robb’s In Death series. Set in the 2050’s, this series follows Lieutenant Eve Dallas in the NY Police Department. In each book, she’s dragged into a case – usually a homicide […]
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Forbidden Planet blu-ray Pros: soundtrack, sets Cons: pace, cliched characters I only just got around to watching the 1956 MGM “Forbidden Planet,” the first sci-fi A-picture (not counting the German silent “Metropolis”). I can see that it was pioneering, not least in electronic music (which was not permitted to be credited as a music […]
Go Set A Watchman Pros: No, you do NOT get to redefine this American Literature icon Cons: Hands off my Atticus..!! All readers and viewers of film/TV have characters they have come to know who are inviolable in their mind. We know their hearts and mind. If there is one fictional character in my mind who I know …it is Atticus […]
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Be Afraid by Mary Burton Pros: decent who done it, and why Cons: characters I couldn’t stand Mary Burton’s Be Afraid is a thriller that uses one of my favorite techniques. Tell us about a traumatic event from someone’s childhood, then move on to the present, where something is happening that has ties to the past event. […]
Goodfellas Pros: Everything Cons: Nothing (This review originally appeared in slightly different form on Epinions.com.) I always hate it when people ask me what my favorite movie is. There are so many that I love it’s hard to narrow it down to just one. But if I were ever to travel to a desert island […]
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Unlucky 13 by James Patterson Pros: a bit of excitement here and there Cons: but definitely not the best of the series In general, I enjoy James Patterson’s The Women’s Murder Club series. But Unlucky 13 really lives up to its name as it was pretty awful. Four women who pull their talents together to solve crimes. Lindsay the […]
Detachment (2011) Pros: acting Cons: directing, editing Considering that British director Tony Kaye is best known for frequent and fierce clashes with Edward Norton over the 1998 “American History X” (for which Norton was nominated for an Oscar), it is surprising that Kaye could assemble the acting talent he did for “Detachment” (2011), starting with […]
Revolver-The Beatles Pros: Maybe the greatest album ever. Cons: Nada. (Note: Review originally appeared on Epinions) Around the beginning of the 2000s VH1 did a listing of the greatest albums of all-time. The number one pick was Revolver by The Beatles. Is it the greatest of all-time? Better than Miles Davis’ Kind Of Blue? That […]
Dias contados (1994) Pros: Gómez, Bardem, gratuitous female nudity Cons: nihilism The Spanish “Running Out of Time,” “Días contados” (1994; there is also a 1999 Hong Kong one that I like better; “Numbered Days” is a more literal translation of “Días contados”) to have been made to show Ruth Gabriel’s body. Except for the bottom […]