TV Review: SMASH
February 2, 2012 – 10:05 pm | 7 Comments

Yeah, yeah, it’s exec produced by Steven Spielberg, stars Anjelica Huston and Debra Messing, has big musical numbers…but is it any good? Well, it’s technically impressive, but after finishing the pilot episode of Smash (premiering Monday, …

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PCN’s Banished Words
January 26, 2012 – 10:06 pm | 39 Comments
PCN’s Banished Words

At the start of the year, Lake Superior State University published its annual list of words and phrases it feels should be banished. I perused the list and found that several are not that offensive. …

TAKEN by Robert Crais: Q&A and Giveaway
January 23, 2012 – 2:24 am | 47 Comments
TAKEN by Robert Crais: Q&A and Giveaway

Happy Lunar New Year to those who celebrate it! Today is the beginning of the Year of the Dragon, which sounds like it should be my year but it’s not. I’m actually Year of the …

Book Review: RAYLAN by Elmore Leonard
January 10, 2012 – 6:36 pm | 6 Comments
Book Review: RAYLAN by Elmore Leonard

This review is by contributor Eric Edwards, a cowboy in his own way.—PCN
Raylan Givens, a U.S. Marshal whose no-nonsense way of upholding the law is viewed by his higher-ups as too reminiscent of the Old …

My Weekly REVENGE Ritual
January 5, 2012 – 12:53 am | 10 Comments
My Weekly REVENGE Ritual

It’s ridiculous how much I anticipated Revenge‘s return tonight. When it debuted last fall, it was the show I was least interested in watching. It had a generic title and marketing campaign, which didn’t make …

Reading Challenge for January
January 3, 2012 – 2:27 pm | 13 Comments
Reading Challenge for January

I never sign up for reading challenges because I’m pretty sure I will fail. Not that I’m afraid of failing (you should’ve seen me bowling last week!), but it stresses me out trying to keep …

Book Review: THE DROP by Michael Connelly
November 27, 2011 – 9:46 pm | 5 Comments
Book Review: THE DROP by Michael Connelly

Harry Bosch might be facing retirement—DROP stands for Deferred Retirement Option Plan—but there’s still a lot of evil for him to bring to justice. The story opens with him being assigned to an Open-Unsolved case …

Movie Review: THE DESCENDANTS
November 15, 2011 – 12:47 am | 7 Comments
Movie Review: THE DESCENDANTS

Writer/director Alexander Payne has a thing for making films about people who aren’t readily likable, the type we laugh at, not with. Ruthlessly ambitious Tracy Flick from Election, pregnant junkie Ruth from Citizen Ruth, and …

Movie Review: THE ARTIST
November 11, 2011 – 4:44 am | 20 Comments
Movie Review: THE ARTIST

In the past five days I’ve seen eight movies, most of them considered Oscar contenders. I loathed a couple, liked a few, but there’s one that I’m passionate about, a film I can unequivocally get …

THE HELP Movie Review + Cast Q & A
July 28, 2011 – 1:35 am | 13 Comments
THE HELP Movie Review + Cast Q & A

Since I have not read Kathryn Stockett’s The Help (don’t hate; it’s in the pile), I went into the screening of the movie (opening August 10) with no expectations or prejudices. I came out with …

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