And now, for something completely different. It’s me again, Write Readers. The second film on our Academy Award Best Picture list is none other than Mad Max: Fury Road. Is it just me, or does this one feel like the Django Unchained of the bunch? It’s all about the action, and the explosions, and the…
Hello, it’s me. I’ve been wondering…okay I’m done with the Adele jokes. It’s been such a long time since you’ve heard from me, Write Readers! If this is your first year tuning in, I’m Rebecca, the resident Write Teacher film critic. Every year I review all of the Academy Awards Best Picture nominees, and this…
Dear Write Readers, this is it! This is the very last film that I’ll be writing about which is nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture! It’s been a intense experience of film watching, and our last film is certainly not the least. Bridge of Spies is directed by none other than the illustrious…
Dear Bookworms, Jasper Fforde’s lighthearted romp through literature continues in Something Rotten, his fourth book in the Thursday Next series. Tired out after a two year stint running Jurisfiction within the BookWorld, Thursday Next decides it is time to return to the outside world and reclaim her actual life. Her assignments in fiction, however, are…
L. M. Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables series has been one of my favorite stories since I was a little girl. I have always admired Anne’s courage and optimism. With such a strong attachment to Anne, I cautiously dove into The Emily Trilogy (a series picked for our February bookshelf). Like Anne Shirley, Emily…
Hello Beautiful People, I’m a little late to this one – but recently, I watched the film The Intern, starring Robert De Niro and Anne Hathaway. The formal synopsis is thus: Seventy-year-old widower Ben Whittaker (Robert De Niro), a retired executive from a phone directory company, applies to a senior citizen intern program after retirement…
Dear Bookworms, If you haven’t heard of The Martian by now, you’ve probably been living under a large rock. Andy Weir’s bestselling science-fiction novel has soared to great heights recently, with top reviews and a 2015 film adaptation starring Matt Damon. The Wall Street Journal called the book “the best pure sci-fi novel in years.” And for good reason….
In her latest novel, The Muralist (one of our November picks), B.A. Shapiro crafted another great piece of historical fiction about the art world. Goodreads offers the following description: “Alizée Benoit, an American painter working for the Works Progress Administration (WPA), vanishes in New York City in 1940 amid personal and political turmoil. No one…
Dear Bookworms, With the recent publication of Winter, the popular new series The Lunar Chronicles by Marissa Meyer comes to an end. I, admittedly, was late in coming to this series due to the fact that I was incredibly pessimistic about any more fractured fairytales. However, after having it recommended to me multiple times by…
Hello Beautiful People, Misery on Broadway will be playing at The Broadhurst Theatre until Valentine’s Day. Now, I had never read the book nor had I seen the movie, so when we were invited to Misery’s Bloggers and Social Influencer Night, I gladly accepted. For those of you who are not familiar with this story,…