First the goddess divine handed me a book called “Cocaine.” I thought maybe she was giving me a hint. Was I supposed to start a coca cartel? I read the unabridged history of the famed drug, and I was compelled. Here was a book that was nonfiction but read like fiction. Good page-turner, nice twists […]
It was somewhere around 8 or 9 years ago that I randomly needed a book to read at an airport and picked up Degree of Guilt by Richard North Patterson. A legal drama about a TV news reporter that has been raped, it was a novel that I found gripping and written with a voice […]
Long flights and vacations are great for reading books, or listening to them, depending on how you travel. After finishing the Jacobs book, I dove right in and conquered another in no time. These historical narrative nonfiction books are just cool. I really like reading them. They are a growing form of nonfiction where instead […]
Reading a book about a guy who decides to live a — literally — biblical life for one year doesn’t exactly sound like the kind of reading material one would think I would get into. But when this book is written by AJ Jacobs, you can count me in. You see, Jacobs got me hooked […]
This movie struck the right tone for Dan and I because we were in fact the best type of people to see it. Look, we’re both guys who were raised primarily by TV in the ’80s. Tom & Jerry, GI Joe, Transformers (not the over-the-top, unrecognizable Michael Bay stuff, the real thing), The Muppets and […]
To call Wall-E a love story would be too trite. To say it’s an environmental wake-up call to a generation of young viewers and their parents would place undue burdens on it. But to ignore that both of these themes resonate and are so strong and breath-takingly done would be to ignore what makes Wall-E […]
Few films move you to gasp with amazement. Man on Wire definitely did this for me. I think it’s the melding of a man whose desire to entertain and challenge himself with the physicality of the buildings he tightropes across in this movie. That those buildings are the two World Trade Center towers make this […]
I can barely contain myself. This movie is the essence of putrid. And it’s exactly the kind of movie that speaks to all of Hollywood’s ills. The lack of originality is stunning in Hollywood sometimes. Vantage Point is actually a remake, and though I have never seen the original, I sure as shit ain’t seeing […]
I’ve seen many a movie that has a resounding message to it, and does it in an emotional enough way to make me get just a wee misty. I’m man enough to admit it. And while Benjamin Button didn’t make me cry, it did have one heck of a good message and one that maybe […]
When I hosted my Sunday supper club last night, my goddess divine and I were caught quoting Anchorman and some other comedies throughout the night that my three guests were stumped by. It was one of those moments when I realized that some people absorb movie quotes into their life like it’s no big deal, […]