Sports – 2020 NFL Year in Review
Here is my NFL Year in Review (5-7 for the postseason, 163-92-1 for the regular season) AFC Division Winners AFC Wild Cards NFC Division Winners NFC Wild Cards Super Bowl…
Movie Review – Quantum of Solace
Director: Marc Forster Starring: Daniel Craig, Olga Kurylenko, Mathieu Amalric Year: 2008 Daniel Craig’s James Bond is back for a sequel, and the result isn’t pretty. From the opening car…
Movie Review – Casino Royale
Director: Martin Campbell Starring: Daniel Craig, Mads Mikkelson, Eva Green Year: 2006 In the newest iteration of 007, Bond is often referred to as a blunt instrument, a weapon, man’s…
Movie Review – Thinner
Director: Tom Holland Starring: Robert John Burke, Joe Mantegna, Michael Constantine Year: 1996 Having just read the King book, I thought I’d try the Holland movie, and the result was…
Book Review – Thinner
Author: Stephen King Year: 1984 Thinner was published 10 years after King’s first novel Carrie, and it was the fifth novel he’d released under the pseudonym Richard Bachman. Actually, the…
Sports – NFL Picks 2020, Championship
Here are my NFL Divisional picks (5-5 for the postseason, 163-92-1 for the regular season) Bye teams: none TB @ GB Buf @ KC
Movie Review – Promising Young Woman
Director: Emerald Fennell Starring: Carey Mulligan, Bo Burnham, Alison Brie Laverne Cox, Chris Lowell, Max Greenfield, Jennifer Coolidge Year: 2020 Is it possible that I’m too old to think that…
Movie Review – Possessor
Director: Brandon Cronenberg Starring: Andrea Riseborough, Christopher Abbott, Jennifer Jason Leigh Year: 2020 If you were to ask me to make a list of everything I enjoy about sci-fi movies,…
Movie Review – Goodfellas
Director: Martin Scorsese Starring: Ray Liotta, Lorraine Bracco, Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci Year: 1990 Scorsese’s legacy is written in stone, and Goodfellas is etched right in there as one…
Movie Review – News of the World
Director: Paul Greengrass Starring: Tom Hanks, Helena Zengel Year: 2020 There’s a reason you haven’t heard of this Tom Hanks Western, and it’s not COVID. It’s because it’s a sub-par…