Thoughts and words from some interesting authors
★★★★☆ What can I say? I’m a guy! When you put together a movie with an Uber hot assassin, throw in some phenom fight scenes, you don’t really have to have much plot. It just works! Helen Mirren disappears so completely into her role you can’t even recognize her voice.…
★☆☆☆☆ I was going to give this movie two stars, but I just can’t. Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard is an epic fail. It had every reason to succeed and yet it failed. It failed __exactly__ the same way Kingsman: The Golden Circle failed. Some twelve year old thought it would be…
★★★★☆ This docudrama about Edward R. Murrow and the beginning of the battle between journalism and McCarthyism is absolutely fantastic. I really like the fact most everybody smoked. Too many pictures are trying to gloss over that part of our history. This movie also covers a period a bit before…
★★★☆☆ Nicolas Cage has had a string of “art for the sake of art” movies lately. Sadly, most of them just don’t work. This one came really close. I think what made it work less was the overview the studio sent out to draw in viewers. Diagnosed with a fatal…
War of the Dragon Throne, Book One Military Historical Fantasy/ Dark Fantasy Date Published November 2021 Publisher: Armored History A military historical fantasy set in the late medieval era–15th century Ming Dynasty. Follow the story of Captain Shao Lian, a battle-hardened veteran of the Ming Dynasty’s imperial army, had become…
★★★☆☆ Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll was an interesting journey. I don’t have a half star character in my collection of HTML special characters so it will have to stay with three stars instead of 3.5. Previously, when I reviewed The Ghost Writer I told you I added…
★★★☆☆ The Ghost Writer is an involved cloak and dagger story somewhat along the lines of Smiley’s People. As such it demands you pay a bit of attention. I’m going to say up-front that I don’t think my 3-star review is probably fair. I was tired when I put this…
