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First, Daniel Ellsberg showed the American people the Pentagon Papers, revealing a top-secret study into the Vietnam War. That's not what The Doomsday Machine is about, however. This is about a terrifying and possibly world-ending tool of war. The nuclear bomb. Daniel Ellsberg decided to drop another bomb, for lack of a better phrase, on the American …
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This is something I'm going to be experimenting with. I love watching documentaries, and I love talking about them. So, I'm going to try and talk about a documentary each week that I thought was interesting. They might be old, they might be new, they might be classic, they might be obscure. All they have …
Now that I've reviewed the book, once again it's time to see how the movie measures up. All in all, I think that it's a good adaptation. Every film adaptation has differences and omissions from the source material. I tried to keep my review of the novel fairly spoiler-free, but I'm going to be more …
The title of Kevin Kwan's debut novel is pretty interesting. Is the book about Asians that are both crazy and rich, or is it about Asians that are not only rich but CRAZY rich? I'd argue that there's a little bit of both in Crazy Rich Asians. There are a LOT of names to keep track …
Content Warning: This book is about the KKK. I will refrain from quoting the actual words of this organization, but there will clearly be sensitive topics: racism, homophobia, anti-semitism, and pretty much any anti- or -phobia you can think of. If that makes you uncomfortable, click away. The new Spike Lee movie, BlacKkKlansman, is based on …
Mark Godsey is a former prosecutor and now is part of the Ohio Innocence Project. After jumping ship, so to speak, Godsey got a look at what exactly goes into a wrongful conviction and why they're so hard to overturn. I've already said that being falsely accused of a crime is something I'm pretty viscerally …
Ten years ago, the film adaptation of the musical Mamma Mia was released. This year, an original sequel followed. For anybody not familiar with the story of the first Mamma Mia or the musical by the same name, the story is pretty simple. Sophie is planning her wedding to her fiance Sky at her mother Donna's hotel in Greece. …
Min Jin Lee's Pachinko is not a large story. But somehow it is. It's the story of a single family, an ethnically Korean family that lives in Japan. The story starts in Korea, with Sunja. Sunja falls in love with an older man named Koh Hansu. Their brief affair leads to her pregnancy, but Hansu can't marry …
One of the most well-known groups of characters in literature is Christopher Robin and his friends that live in the Hundred-Acre Wood. A.A. Milne’s words and E.H. Shepard’s illustrations have taken an iron hold on the childhoods of countless of us. I grew up watching Winnie the Pooh on TV, later finding the books. I …
CONTENT WARNING: This review will deal with sensitive topics, including the physical and sexual assault of children, and the murder of children. The Outsider is Stephen King's newest book, following last year's Sleeping Beauties. That's not to say that it's a direct sequel, but it is the last King book that I read. If you …
