Amy Schumer plays a young woman happy with her single life. She is afraid of commitment, but she does not have a problem with that. Her dad instilled that fear into her at a young age and it stuck with her way more than her younger, married sister. She...

When I first heard that Paul Rudd was going to be in a superhero movie, it seemed too good to be true. He’s charming in everything, but I didn’t think the movie studios would ever pick him for a superhero. I ignored that it was some superhero named Ant-Man...

Carrie by Stephen King Pages: 199 Genre: Horror I recently decided  that I need extra incentive to get myself out walking each day, so I started a subscription to Audible.com to listen to audiobooks while walking. I figured if I only listened to a good story while walking, then...

Brian Wilson was the songwriter and leader of the Beach Boys. His talent was not always appreciated by his abusive father and it led to him having a mental breakdown that affected him for years. In the 1980s, he was being overly medicated by a scheming psychotherapist. During this...

I saw the original Jurassic Park in the theater. It was a visceral experience where I was as terrified as those kids being chased by a T-Rex and velociraptors. I wanted to experience that with this movie and the trailer made me believe it could happen, but it failed...

I have a thing for robot movies, especially ones dealing with artificial intelligence. Even if most of them end up with the same general plot line that artificial intelligence is bad and should not be developed, I still want to watch it. That may bias my opinion of Ex...

The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins Rachel rides the train into work each day and during one section of the ride, the train slows down slightly and she stares at a row of houses that line the tracks. She stares at a happy couple that she has named...

  All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr I normally would not have read this book. It did win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, but I am not a fan of books about war so it would not have been something I would have chosen for myself. The...

Mad Max: Fury Road Starring: Tom Hardy, Charlize Theron, Nicholas Hoult Directed by: George Miller Written by: George Miller, Brendan McCarthy, Nick Lathouris Rating: R Genre: Action Release Date: 2015 I love a good action movie, but these days most action movies involve so much CGI that it can become mind-numbing. What I really loved...

The 100 by Kass Morgan I found the premise of this book intriguing. Nuclear war has taken place on Earth and a colony of people have lived in spaceships orbiting Earth for 300 years while waiting for the radiation to calm down so they can repopulate. After some tests,...