Favorite Movie of the Week The Quick and the Dead (1995) I love Westerns and I didn’t realize that a Western with a female gunfighter protagonist was missing from my…
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Favorite Movie of the Week The Hunt for Red October (1990) I always feel a little bad when I pick a movie that I’ve already seen as my favorite movie…
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Favorite Movie of the Week Diner (1982) Diner follows a group of five friends in their early twenties as they struggle with the transition into adulthood. It is set in…
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Favorite Movie of the Week Wolf Children (2012) Wolf Children is Mamoru Hosoda’s third original movie, after The Girl Who Leapt Through Time and Summer Wars. It follows Hana, a…
Read more“The Stone Sky” by N.K. Jemisin
I’ve been looking forward to the release of The Stone Sky ever since I read the previous books in the series, The Fifth Season and The Obelisk Gate, (both of…
Read moreBook series review: Raven’s Shadow by Anthony Ryan
I’ve been meaning to read Anthony Ryan’s Raven’s Shadow series for a long time but kept putting it off because so many people said the second and third books didn’t…
Read moreBook series review: The Dresden Files (1-15) by Jim Butcher
I’ve owned the first eight Dresden Files books for a couple of years now and I kept meaning to read them and never getting around to it. I did read…
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Favorite Movies of the Week The Hunt (2012) I didn’t know anything about this movie before I watched it except that it was a critically acclaimed Danish movie starring Mads…
Read moreMovie review: Death Note (2017)
Death Note is about a Seattle high-school student, Light Turner, who finds a notebook (the titular Death Note) that gives its owner the ability to kill people simply by writing…
Read moreWeekly Movie Reviews: Aug 13-19, 2017
Favorite Movie of the Week Dhobi Ghat (2010) Dhobi Ghat follows the life of four interconnected people living in Mumbai. Shai (Monica Dogra) is a banker on sabbatical working on…
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