4/20/2008
Two people with dark pasts and dangerous futures team up to stop a deadly plague and the man who created it.
It's not often that I close a book and wish that it had more chapters, but that's exactly what happened with Hidden, by Eve Kenin. The characters and situations are so compelling that I want to know what happens next.Set in the not-too-distant-future, in a frozen wasteland where no one can be...
4/20/2008
Two people with dark pasts and dangerous futures team up to stop a deadly plague and the man who created it.
It's not often that I close a book and wish that it had more chapters, but that's exactly what happened with Hidden, by Eve Kenin. The characters and situations are so compelling that I want to know what happens next.Set in the not-too-distant-future, in a frozen wasteland where no one can be...
7/30/2007
Award-winning comedy about wine country is a bit vinous*.
According to a blurb on the cover, Sideways is the "best comedy of the year" for 2004. If that's true, it's a really sad statement about comedies that year. It has a few funny moments, but a laugh riot it is not. The film stars Paul Giamatti as would-be novelist Miles, who's taking his college...
1/8/2007
An inspiring story of American willpower, suitable for most family members.
This is the kind of movie they used to make -- a rugged adventure, full of romance, without bad language or full frontal nudity. Hidalgo is the story of an American who travels halfway around the world to compete in a harsh endurance race across the Arabian desert. Viggo Mortensen stars as Frank...
12/24/2006
How growing up in a military family affects your childhood and your whole life.
The most common use of the term "brat" is for an obnoxious or ill-mannered child. It's also used ? with none of that other meaning in play ? for children born into military families. My dad was career Navy; I'm a Navy brat, so I was really interested in seeing this documentary.The main thing all...
9/12/2006
The Life and Death of a Fuel Efficient Automobile
I'm angry. I'm mad at the president, the oil companies, the state of California, and several major automakers, all because of this little documentary, "Who Killed the Electric Car". The film mentions several electric cars that came out around the same time period, but the film's focus is on...
6/24/2006
Samara
The Ring is one of the best horror movies ever made, so I had high hopes for "The Ring 2". It's a promising concept ? Rachel and Aiden Keller (Naomi Watts and David Dorfman), having disposed of the first haunted videotape, have moved to a small town, hoping to get away from the horror. She's...
6/23/2006
The effects of sudden fame on a woman's life, love and career.
Native New Yorker Kyra Felis isn't looking to live life in the spotlight. She just wants to design clothes. When she falls in love with small-time actor Declan McKenna, she has no idea their peaceful, happy life together is about to end up fodder for the tabloids. The notoriety is fun at first, a...
5/20/2006
On the trail of her scheming husband, a wife discovers his twin is anything but identical.
A businesswoman bilked by her new husband teams up with his identical twin to get back her fortune. Lady Olivia Shea soon sees that her brother-in-law, Samson Carlisle, may look like her husband Edmund, but the two are nothing alike, and Samson is the better man. Samson is also smitten with...
5/7/2006
Four thousand years after his first death, Nathan King is finally contented in his life. He has close friends he can trust, a profitable antiquities building, and a seaside home. Then a photo of a mentally ill woman reminds him of whom he once was ? Eannatum, King of all Sumer ? and puts his...
