Movie review: Twists keep Broken City intriguing
Maybe its time to put the idea of bad movies being dumped into January release dates to a rest. This crime drama, which explores the nastiness and sleaziness bubbling just below the surface of New...
View ArticleThe Last Stand proves Schwarzenegger is still a star
There are already snappy one-liners a-plenty going around about Arnold Schwarzenegger being baaack. But anyone watching The Last Stand will feel almost immediately that he never went away. The...
View ArticleMovie review: Quartet celebrates creativity
Its an interesting time for an industry that makes most of its money from a viewing audience that hasnt yet reached 30. One of last years biggest art house hits was the veteran actor-filled The...
View ArticleMovie review: Retired musicians get decidedly active in Quartet
It almost seems like film studios would rather make movies for newborns than the so-called mature demographic. Coming to a theater near you Teething 2. Look out as the Mighty Molar goes...
View ArticleThe Readers Writers: NYT bestselling author Jennifer Estep
Jennifer Estep holds a bachelors degree in English and journalism and a masters in professional communications. Southern-born and raised, Jennifer admits to a love of food and a preference for honey...
View ArticleMovie review: Bullet to the Head– fun title, fun movie
The last film to be so perfectly titled, to give viewers exactly what they thought they were going to get plotwise, was Snakes on a Plane, a bad movie that had only a good title going for it. Thats...
View ArticleJude Law talks about Side Effects and other new projects
London native David Jude Law slowly came up through the acting ranks like so many of his contemporaries: a stint at the National Youth Music Theatre, some work in British TV soaps, then lots of time on...
View ArticleMovie review: Youll want these Side Effects
Money, sex, insider trading, prison time, emotional distress, prescription drugs and their (see title), doctor-patient relationships, ethics probes, murder. This new mystery-thriller from director...
View ArticleMovie review: 56 Up an engaging reality series
Every seven years, since 1964, British TV viewers have been treated to a phenomenon: an insightful, humorous, sobering, life-affirming series of shows, the first of which focused on a group of...
View ArticleThe Readers Writers: Paranormal romance author Lexi George
I dont have a list of favorite romance authors. But if I did, Lexi George would join Victoria Alexander in my top five.An appellate attorney by trade, Lexi grew up in an Alabama rural community where...
View ArticleMovie review: Beautiful Creatures kind of like Twilight, but better
A boy meets a girl, and theyre different from each other, but they dont let that get in the way of romance. OK, stop thinking about Twilight or the much more recent Warm Bodies. This new one,...
View ArticleMovie review: John Dies at the End
SPOILER ALERT! John does NOT die at the end. He dies at about the halfway point. Or maybe its a third of the way in. Hold on, he might not be dead at all.Wow, if that doesnt pique your interest, this...
View ArticleMovie review: Dwayne Johnson cant save Snitch
As I was leaving an advance screening of this new action movie starring Dwayne Johnson, a critic friend of mine said to me, I liked The Tooth Fairy better, referring to an earlier, really bad...
View ArticleAnalog audio making comeback thanks to turntable restorers
This is my technical hobby and passion.Those words greet whoever reads Marion Haleckers Craigslist ad under the title: Vintage Turntables.Indeed, stacks of vintage turntables, receivers and...
View ArticleMovie review: Oz the Great and Powerful a vibrant, worthy prequel
A great idea, pulled off to just short of perfection. Its a prequel, of sorts, to The Wizard of Oz, in which were introduced to the young Kansas sideshow huckster who ends up in the magic land of...
View ArticleJim Carrey works his magic in The Incredible Burt Wonderstone
Jim Carrey can play it all: dark and light, down-to-earth and outrageous. He can jump from The Cable Guy to I Love You Phillip Morris, from The Truman Show to Dumb & Dumber without missing...
View ArticleMovie review: The Call falls apart after riveting start
Some things go very wrong in this film. For one of the characters, it happens right at the beginning, just after she makes a call to 911 in Los Angeles. Young blond-haired Leah (Evie Thompson) gets...
View ArticleMovie review: The Incredible Burt Wonderstone will work its magic on you
There havent been many movies about magic and magicians made over the years, although the idea of seeing spectacular illusions on a big screen sounds like a pretty good one. Weve had an inaccurate...
View ArticleThe Readers Writers: Bestselling authors John Douglas and Mark Olshaker
John Douglas is best known to the general public for his groundbreaking work in criminal profiling. While an FBI agent, he served as a SWAT Team sniper and later as a hostage negotiator. In 1977 he...
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