Review: ‘The Return of the King’

Yes, it’s finally time to review the third and final installment of Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings film trilogy! I keep saying it in each of the previous parts of this review series, but there’s really almost nothing bad about these movies. I’ll take it one step further: there is almost nothing about …

Review: The Borgias

I recently finished watching HBO’s The Borgias on Netflix, a historical drama centered around the controversial Pope Alexander VI, aka Rodrigo Borgia, as he ascends to the Papal throne and then does everything in his power for the next 10 years to defend it. The Borgia family has long been known as a family of …

Movie Review: Don’t Breathe

Don’t Breathe is a horror movie that came out 5 years ago and apparently it now has a sequel in theaters. I haven’t seen the sequel and I’m not going to because I hated the first one, for reasons I’ll explain in a moment. The plot of the first movie revolves around a group of …

Review: The Last Kingdom

Lately I’ve been reading the “The Last Kingdom” book series by Bernard Cornwall. Concurrently, I’ve also been watching the show on Netflix! With that in mind, today I’ll do a review of my impressions so far of both the books and the show. The books: I’ve read Books 1-3 and honestly they’re phenomenal. Gritty and …

Review: Toy Story 4

Yes, it’s been out for a while but recently my kids have been obsessed with all things Toy Story, so I thought I’d share my thoughts. Short review: Whyyyyyyyyyyyy? Long review: My first thought upon hearing of a Toy Story 4 movie was my above response: why? The story had concluded! Andy grew up, he …

Frozen II Review

As a father of two, I have of course become an expert on all things Disney, and that includes the recent Frozen sequel. It released to general acclaim and praise, but for me it gets a shoulder shrug. My main issue with the movie was the bluntness of its message. In the first Frozen, you …

Gilmore Girls: A Review

My wife finally got me to watch the entirety of the TV show “Gilmore Girls”, and let’s just say I’ve got some thoughts I’d like to share. I would say ‘spoiler alert’ but come on, this show is old and I think the statute of limitations has passed. Short Review: I hated it. Thanks for …

Top Ten Tuesday: Extraordinary Book Titles — A Journey of Words

Check it out, this blogger thought the title of my book is pretty cool! See what she has to say about it, and check out the rest of her blog! There’s great lists and reviews to be seen! It’s time for another Top Ten list from That Artsy Reader Girl. The topic this week was …