Month: March 2016

The Shining (1980 Movie)

The Shining Starring: Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd, Scatman Crothers Directed by: Stanley Kubrick Written by: Stanley Kubrick, Diane Johnson Rating: R Length: 2 hour, 26 minutes Genre: Horror Release Date: 1980 I’ve seen this movie many times. I love this movie. It still scares me. I watched it immediately after first reading The...

Spotlight

Spotlight Starring: Mark Ruffalo, Michael Keaton, Rachel McAdams, Liev Schreiber, John Slattery, Brian d’Arcy James, Stanley Tucci Directed by: Tom McCarthy Written by: Tom McCarthy, Josh Singer Rating: R Length: 2 hour, 8 minutes Genre: Historical Drama Release Date: 2015 Making a movie about a bunch of newspaper reporters from the Boston Globe, who uncovered the massive...

Red Queen

Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard Pages: 383 Genre: Young Adult Dystopian Published: Feburary 10, 2015 Link: Amazon | Powell’s 3.5/5 stars When I saw Red Queen displayed in Powell’s for months, I thought it was some kind of new story about the red queen in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. I was excited to...

Carol

Carol Starring: Cate Blanchett, Rooney Mara, Sarah Paulson, Kyle Chandler, Jake Lacy, John Magaro Directed by: Todd Haynes Written by: Phyllis Nagy (screenplay), Patricia Highsmith (novel) Rating: R Genre: Romance Release Date: 2015 Carol is a slow movie, but I was never bored while watching it. I could see other people not having the...

The Shining (Book)

The Shining by Stephen King Pages: 447 Genre: Horror Published: 1977 Link: Amazon | Powell’s I only ended up reading a few books, mostly short stories by Stephen King before I quit reading his books back in high school. The Shining was one of them and it was my favorite. Parts of it scared...

Salem’s Lot (2004 TV Movie)

I have no recollection of this 2004 version of Salem’s Lot existing. I think I would have paid attention to it somewhat because of Rob Lowe, but I didn’t. In some ways I enjoyed watching this version of the story better than the 1979 original, but I did not...

Amazing Race: No Sense of Urgency

Amazing Race: Season 28 Episode 03 Bros Being Jocks In the prior episode, the brothers slowly wandered around the airport which led to them getting on the latest possible flight to the destination, had a hard time finding the detour clue, and only avoided elimination because of the mistake of...

The Silver Star

The Silver Star by Jeannette Walls Pages: 267 Genre: Literary Fiction Published: 2013 Purchase: Amazon 3/5 Stars I found The Silver Star to be disappointing. It was an okay, easy read but not one I would necessarily recommend....

The Revenant

The Revenant is brutal. It is not a fun movie to watch, but that doesn’t mean that I didn’t enjoy watching it. I could almost feel all the pain that Leonardo DiCaprio’s character, Hugh Glass, was experiencing in the American wilderness–from the horrendous bear attack to the bitter cold...

Between the World and Me

Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates Pages: 152 Genre: Memoir Published: July 15, 2015 Purchase: Amazon But all our phrasing—race relations, racial chasm, racial justice, racial profiling, white privilege, even white supremacy—serves to obscure that racism is a visceral experience, that it dislodges brains, blocks airways, rips muscle, extracts organs, cracks bones,...