Month: January 2016

Persuasion

Persuasion by Jane Austen Pages: 260 Genre: Classics Published: 1818 Link: Amazon | Powell’s You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever. I offer myself to you again with a heart even more your own...

Carrie (2013 Movie)

This was a completely unnecessary remake. When it began it showed Julianne Moore as Carrie’s mother, Margaret White, giving birth to Carrie and almost killing her immediately. That gave me hope that it might add a little more backstory to the movie from the book that the 1976 version left...

The Martian

When I heard that Matt Damon would be playing astronaut Mark Watney, I thought he was perfectly cast. I knew he could portray a guy who could figure out how to survive on his own, while also being able to show the emotional effect it would have on a...

Crimson Peak

Crimson Peak is a beautiful movie that does not know what it wants to be — haunted house ghost story or twisted family drama. Based on the trailer and it coming from Guillermo del Toro, I was expecting it to be spooky and scary, but it wasn’t....