Friday, December 16, 2016

New Movie Alert: Collateral Beauty


In Theaters December 16, 2016

When a successful New York advertising executive (Will Smith) suffers a great tragedy, he retreats from life. While his concerned friends try desperately to reconnect with him, he seeks answers from the universe by writing letters to Love, Time and Death. When his notes bring unexpected personal responses, he begins to understand how these constants interlock in a life fully lived and how even the deepest loss can reveal moments of meaning and beauty.


Saturday, December 3, 2016

New Book Alert: "Cross The Line" by James Patterson


In Stores Now!

After shots pierce the tranquil nighttime calm of Rock Creek Park, a man is dead: what looks at first like road rage might be something much more sinister. But Alex has only just begun asking questions when he's called across town to investigate a new murder, one


Thursday, December 1, 2016

New Movie Alert: Bleed For This


Now Playing!

Vinny "The Pazmanian Devil" Pazienza (Miles Teller), a local Providence boxer, shoots to stardom after winning two world title fights. After a near-fatal car accident leaves him with a broken neck, he is told he may never walk again. Against all odds and doctor's orders, renowned trainer Kevin Rooney (Aaron Eckhart) agrees to help Vinny return to the ring just a year after the accident for what could be the last fight of his life. Based on a true story.


Wednesday, November 30, 2016

New Movie Alert: Rules Don't Apply


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Small town beauty queen and devout Baptist Marla Mabrey (Lily Collins), under contract to the infamous Howard Hughes, arrives in Los Angeles. At the airport, she meets her driver, Frank Forbes (Alden Ehrenreich), only two weeks on the job and also from a religiously conservative background. Their instant attraction not only puts their religious convictions to the test but also defies Hughes' number one rule: no employee is allowed to have an intimate relationship with a contract actress.


Tuesday, November 29, 2016

Thumbs Up or Thumbs Down: Movies 2016: "Keeping Up with the Joneses"


There's an old saying that goes something like "Stop keeping up with the Jones's before you fall flat on your butt!" For the most part, people tend to allow that saying to go in one ear and out the other, especially when their next door neighbors Uncle Bob and Auntie Susie gets a new vehicle and smiles every time they passes by. 

I mean you can't let old Bobby Boy out do you, or can you? So the very next week you go out and buy a brand new special edition Ram Truck with butterfly doors! 
 First mistake...
Now here comes the rumors. Whelp! The rumor on the street is that Keeping Up With The Joneses cost approximately $40 million to make, but only brought in $24.6 million according to the box office. Hmmm... word on the street is that the movie gets a "Thumbs Down" 

Monday, November 28, 2016

New Movie Alert: La La Land


In Theaters December 9, 2016

Sebastian (Ryan Gosling) and Mia (Emma Stone) are drawn together by their common desire to do what they love. But as success mounts they are faced with decisions that begin to fray the fragile fabric of their love affair, and the dreams they worked so hard to maintain in each other threaten to rip them apart.


Saturday, November 19, 2016

Short Stories Saturdays: The Man on the Stairs


By Lord Pepem

It was a tiny sound but it woke me up because it was a human sound. I held my breath and it happened again, then again; it was footsteps on the stairs. I tried to whisper,

There's someone coming up the stairs,

but my breath was cowering, I couldn't shape it. I squeezed Kevin's wrist in pulsing units, three pulses, then two pulses, then three pulses. I was trying to invent a physical language that could enter his sleep. "but after a while I realized I wasn't even squeezing his wrist,