The Blind Side Movie Review
Title: The Blind Side Synopsis: Michael Oher, a homeless black teen, has drifted in and out of the school system for years. Then Leigh Anne Tuohy and her husband, Sean, take him in. The Tuohys eventually become …
Category: Film
The Giver Movie Review
The Giver Synopsis: In a seemingly perfect community, without war, pain, suffering, differences or choice, a young boy is chosen to learn from an elderly man about the true pain and pleasure of the “real” world. …
Julie and Julia Book + Movie Review
Title: Julie and Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously by Julie Powell Summary / Synopsis: Nearing thirty and trapped in a dead-end secretarial job, Julie Powell decides to reclaim her life through cooking all the recipes in …
January 2021: What I Read, Watched, and Heard
We are in 2021, which started with serious 2020 vibes, but has been looking up since January 20th. While trying to survive this panorama and watching America’s homegrown terrorists storm the Capitol building, I was …
4 Powerful Documentaries to Stream During MLK Weekend
It’s MLK Weekend, which means a lot of folks get to enjoy a three-day weekend. If you are using this time to get in more streaming, make sure to add some of these documentaries that …
The Godfather Movie Review
The Godfather Synopsis: The aging patriarch of an organized crime dynasty transfers control of his clandestine empire to his reluctant son. ***Flawless I can tell that I had little to no complaints about this film because …
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Book + Movie Review
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants by Ann Brashares Summary: Carmen got the jeans at a thrift shop. They didn’t look all that great: they were worn, dirty, and speckled with bleach. On the night before …
The Girl on the Train: Book Versus Movie
The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins Rachel catches the same commuter train every morning and has started to feel like she knows one of the people who live in one of the houses …
The Devil Wears Prada Movie Review
The Devil Wears Prada Synopsis: A smart but sensible new graduate lands a job as an assistant to Miranda Priestly, the demanding editor-in-chief of a high fashion magazine. Warning: This movie review contains spoilers. With Friends …
Memoirs of a Geisha Book + Movie Review
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden Summary: At the age of nine, Chiyo Sakamoto is taken from her home and sold to an okiya in Gion, Kyoto’s most prominent geisha district. She enters a world …