Movie Review: Beauty and the Beast (1991) directed by Gary Trousdale Once upon a time, there was an enchantress who went to an eleven year old boy’s house in disguise. When he refused to let her in because her disguise was ugly, she punished his rudeness by turning him into a beast, and everyone else in… Continue reading Movie Review: Beauty and the Beast (1991)
Month: November 2020
Webtoon Review: Dragon’s Dogma
Webtoon Review: Dragon’s Dogma Cassardis is a sleepy fishing village, very little new or exciting things happen there, and the local garrison of soldiers is bored to distraction as honestly there’s nothing to protect the village from. The most interesting person in Cassardis is Ethan, whose youthful ocean-based trauma means he spends his days going… Continue reading Webtoon Review: Dragon’s Dogma
Movie Review: Total Recall (1990)
Movie Review: Total Recall (1990) directed by Paul Verhoeven Doug Quaid (Arnold Schwarzenegger) has a recurring dream set on Mars. In it, he is exploring the landscape with a woman who is not his wife Lori (Sharon Stone) when he has an accident and his helmet breaks, causing Quaid to suffocate. When he awakens, Quaid wants… Continue reading Movie Review: Total Recall (1990)
Book Review: Murder in Blue
Book Review: Murder in Blue by Paul Petersen Eric Saveman, the man codenamed The Smuggler, has come a long way from his career bringing marijuana into California. Nowadays he works for ZED, a secret branch of the CIA that also works domestically. His current assignment is to infiltrate a Soviet computer facility and steal a… Continue reading Book Review: Murder in Blue
TV Review: The Untamed
TV Review: The Untamed At the beginning, Wei Wuxian (Zhan Xiao) dies. The cultivation clans have banded together at Nightless City to battle the Yiling Patriarch, master of the dark arts. Wei Wuxian is confronted by his adoptive brother Jiang Cheng (Zhuocheng Wang) and best friend Lan Wangji (Yibo Wang). Wei winds up plummeting off… Continue reading TV Review: The Untamed
Movie Review: The 13th Warrior
Movie Review: The 13th Warrior (1999) directed by John McTiernan Ahmed ibn Fahdlan (Antonio Banderas) was not always a warrior. Once he was a poet, esteemed for his skill with words. But then he fell in love with another man’s wife, and to avoid scandal, Ahmed was sent as an ambassador to the far north. There,… Continue reading Movie Review: The 13th Warrior
Book Review: Detectives Inc.
Book Review: Detectives Inc. by William Heyliger Dr. David Stone was once a police surgeon until he lost his sight. But he did not lose his keen mystery-solving instincts. Now he and his faithful seeing eye* dog Lady take on mysterious incidents in their New Jersey small town, aided by Dr. Stone’s young nephew Joe… Continue reading Book Review: Detectives Inc.
Book Review: Heller with a Gun
Book Review: Heller with a Gun by Louis L’Amour King Mabry has a reputation. Some of it’s earned. He indeed is a fearsome man when holding a gun, having killed eleven men “not counting Indians.” But he’s at pains to point out that those men were all armed and facing him at the time. Mabry’s… Continue reading Book Review: Heller with a Gun
Movie Review: Braveheart
Movie Review: Braveheart (1995) directed by Mel Gibson It is late 13th Century Scotland, and the land is without a king. King Edward I of England (Patrick McGoohan), known as “Longshanks”, claims ownership and has sent his armies to occupy the land. After a peace negotiation with Scots lords ends in a war crime by Longshanks,… Continue reading Movie Review: Braveheart
Webtoon Review: Blood of Zeus
Webtoon Review: Blood of Zeus Heron has had a rough life. Ever since he and his mother Electra came to the polis where they now live, that community has been shrouded in clouds. This made them unpopular, and the subject of ill rumors. Heron’s been bullied, and cheated by merchants. When demons attack the village,… Continue reading Webtoon Review: Blood of Zeus