Forget About Your Worries and Your Strife With The Jungle Book: Diamond Edition

The Jungle Book: Diamond Edition [Blu-Ray] Release Date: February 11, 2014 Original Release Date: October 18, 1967 Cast: Bruce Reitherman, Phil Harris, Sebastian Cabot, Louis Prima, George Sanders, Sterling Holloway Director: Wolfgang Reitherman Studio: Walt Disney Productions Distributor: Buena Vista Home Entertainment Genre(s): Kids, Family, Animated Extra Feature Rating:  ★★★★☆ Rating: ★★★★☆ Review Spoilers: Low Amazon | […]

The Warded Man Hits the Mark… Mostly

The Warded Man Original Title: The Painted Man Series: The Demon Cycle #1 Author:  Peter V. Brett Release Date: January 1, 2008 Publisher: Random House Source: LibraryThing Early Reviewers Genre(s): Fanatsy Rating: ★★★☆☆ Review Spoilers: Moderate throughout; High at the end GoodReads | Amazon This should have been a four star book. It’s arguably still a three-point-five star book […]

“The Monuments Men” Shines a Light on a Largely Forgotten Part of WWII History

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SziPDANik18] The Monuments Men Release Date: February 7, 2014 Cast: George Clooney, Matt Damon, Bill Murray, John Goodman, Jean Dujardin, Bob Balaban, Hugh Boneville, Cate Blanchett, Dimitri Leonidas Director: George Clooney Studio: Columbia Pictures, Fox 2000 Pictures, Smokehouse Pictures, Studio Babelsberg Distributor: Columbia Pictures, Sony Pictures Genre(s): Action, Drama, History, Biography Based On the similarly named The Monuments […]

Pride and Prejudice Meets Portal Fantasy in The Thinking Woman’s Guide to Real Magic

The Thinking Woman’s Guide to Real Magic Author: Emily Croy Barker Release Date: August 1, 2013 Publisher: Pamela Dornman Books, Penguin Source: Edelweis DRC, NetGalley DRC Genre(s): Fantasy, Romance Rating: ★★★★☆ Review Spoilers:  Low GoodReads | Amazon This book took me a good two months to read. Usually you would probably think, “Oh, that must be a bad […]