As the complex tale of all things bouncing around the tortured mind of Rachel began to unfold under the direction on Tate Taylor, I squirmed. Would I be able to withstand 112 minutes this slow? Unlike my dear wife Karen next to me for the 7:10 p.m. Friday show in the solidly filled Regal Cinemas…
The stars are aligned for big laughs. Kristen Wiig and Kate McKinnon are the two main women in the tale, and Leslie Jones has a major role as well. If you’re keeping score at home, that means Masterminds employs three-quarters of the cast of the latest Ghostbusters – and the ones that were funnier than…
You think it’s bad when your tipsy uncle won’t take the hint and go home when you turn the lights off when everybody else knows the holiday party is going, going, gone? Think about the plight of the London guy who saw his driveway chosen by the senior woman who’d chosen his neighborhood as the…
Remember when you were lost, swimming in teen angst, and when you put on a record that black spinning vinyl acted like an oval orange lifesaver? John Carney surely does. The writer and director of Sing Street sweetly shares those tumultuous feelings with a 1-hour, 46-minute treat that’s part drama, part comedy, part musical and…
How’d you like it if you just pulled off the most miraculous move of your career, in the front of the clenched-shut eyes of 153 souls and most likely wide-open eyes of their highest Power, just to have your judgment-makers on a smug bureaucratic panel insist you made the wrong decision? Meet Chesley Sullenberger. That’s…
Behold the newest member of the Marvel Universe. He wears big glasses and a bushy mustache not as a disguise but as part of his everyday Hollywood attire. Trumbo slays the evil empire by … Wait. I’m mixing studios and genres here, obviously. But director Jay Roach certainly took John McNamara’s script based on Bruce…
No question that Roberto Duran, he of the Hands of Stone, was one of the best fighters in the world, the scrappy soul from Panama who threw his first professional punch in 1968 and remained relevant in the ring way into the 1990s. The man could hit. That’s evident in the tale of his life…
Miles Teller and Jonah Hill are all grown up in War Dogs. Director Todd Phillips, too. Teller left any signs of his snide teen dystopia days and Hill the goof from Superbad and the pair of 21 Jump Street flicks, while the only thing Phillips brought along from his going, going, gone Hangover trilogy was…
Hooray, daily journalism. Boo, Catholic Church. That would be the easy way to review the award-winning Spotlight, directed by Tom McCarthy from the script he co-wrote with Josh Singer about the true tale of how Boston Globe’s investigative team painfully and pain-stakingly put together the series that once and for all brought the decades of…
Back in the high society days when newspapers ran popular opinion, soldiers fought and relaxed en masses and something called records were played on a gadget by the name of the radio, there was a woman by the name of Florence Foster Jenkins who lived for music. But the circumstances of her life conspired against…
My mind's written words
Fiction, and other made-up stories
Fun fact: humans have flaws. I hope to solve your issues by providing unique healthy lifestyle tips
Travel | Food | Photography
I suffer from chronic migraine - at The Mindful Migraine blog I share some of the ideas that have helped - I hope they help you too.
poetry, thoughts, quotations
Just let me try this
food, nature, photography, art, travel
Embracing, Advocating & Discovering Happiness in Mental Health
A conservative take on news, culture and life. 1984 was a warning, not a playbook.
A Long Island lifestyle blog that helps you to be the best you.
Gabriela Marie Milton - Three Times #1 Amazon Bestselling Poet, Pushcart Nominee, Publisher
Looking for the unique and quintessential in a location.
Exploring my Thoughts. Finding Myself. Searching for... the point of it all.
A Boutique Blog for Lovers of Hidden Beauty
Vermont Writing
also nothing
The alluring New England travel blog.
Step Into the Past—Lose Yourself in the Story.
reality
It's another story.
Having Fun With MS and other sob sories
Unleashing the beauty of creativity
Walks Stories and Nature
Let's take a break and kvetch* about the small stuff for awhile~if it gets too big, you're outta here!
Vibe alone for a while
Life's Ephemera in Ink and Pixels
all things food and nutrition
Progressive old soul wordsmith
“Don't count the days, make the days count.” Muhammad Ali
Ute's Happy World
It started when I gave up smoking and went from there!
Doing the best I can to keep it on the bright side
campfire adventure stories
Historical Fiction Author
A Place of Rest and Encouragement
Art, Crafts, Cooking, Sewing, Gardening, Reading, Travel, DIY
Inspired to Write. Writing to Inspire.
Daily drama with my canine companions
FINDING JOY IN SEEMINGLY INSIGNIFICANT THINGS
Never Grow Old
Story-telling explorer
My journey through photography
Taking the journey, bumps and all
Mark Bialczak 