I’ve read a lot of bad reviews about this book, but it’s become one of my favorites. This book definitely requires a technical mind and a love for science, so if 500 pages of science and cultural history sound boring to you, I doubt you’d enjoy this as much as I did.

In 2012, the best scientists across the globe have been assembled to solve a mystery. The earth is going through a traumatic time with many earthquakes, floods and odd weather. The lost city of Atlantis may have been found and could either be causing these problems, or could be a cure for them.

All over the world, usually under an ancient pyramid of some sort, an interesting material, Carbon 60, is found inscribed with an unknown language. This material is man-made and is something we can’t create in any significant quantity, so its discovery is puzzling. Not only is the material inscribed, but it is digitally encoded.

The set of great minds come together to try to figure out how this material and the writings on them tie into the puzzle.

Let’s face it, I’m no good at summarizing. I thought this book was not only educational, but exciting. I found many of the scientific and historical facts discussed in the book are real, as I researched points that interested me. It really makes you think and evaluate everything you’ve always assumed to be true.

If you like Stargate, you’ll notice many similar themes.

This book is perfect for those who don’t have a lot of time to read every day as it’s broken into many “stopping points” between chapters, so it’s easy to read for 10 minutes and then put the book down at a break. The last 50 pages or so are truly boring, but I felt the ride was definitely worth it!

I’ve read a lot of bad reviews about this book, but it’s become one of my favorites. This book definitely requires a technical mind and a love for science, so if 500 pages of science and cultural history sound boring to you, I doubt you’d enjoy this as much as I did.

In 2012, the best scientists across the globe have been assembled to solve a mystery. The earth is going through a traumatic time with many earthquakes, floods and odd weather. The lost city of Atlantis may have been found and could either be causing these problems, or could be a cure for them.

All over the world, usually under an ancient pyramid of some sort, an interesting material, Carbon 60, is found inscribed with an unknown language. This material is man-made and is something we can’t create in any significant quantity, so its discovery is puzzling. Not only is the material inscribed, but it is digitally encoded.

The set of great minds come together to try to figure out how this material and the writings on them tie into the puzzle.

Let’s face it, I’m no good at summarizing. I thought this book was not only educational, but exciting. I found many of the scientific and historical facts discussed in the book are real, as I researched points that interested me. It really makes you think and evaluate everything you’ve always assumed to be true.

If you like Stargate, you’ll notice many similar themes.

This book is perfect for those who don’t have a lot of time to read every day as it’s broken into many “stopping points” between chapters, so it’s easy to read for 10 minutes and then put the book down at a break. The last 50 pages or so are truly boring, but I felt the ride was definitely worth it!

I haven’t written a movie review in months despite having seen many. My apologies, mostly to myself because I’m really, really anal about keeping track of things such as this.

This is a Miramax film with an independent sort of feel to it. There also didn’t appear to be much point to it. Two people’s lives intersect over and over again without them ever meeting. It had a Sliding Doors / Sleepless in Seattle sort of feel to it. It was funny and smart and definitely worth seeing if you have a Sunday afternoon to waste, but I completely understand why I’d never heard of this movie before.

This movie didn’t do so well in the theatres, but I thought it was pretty funny. It isn’t so much a remake of the TV show Bewitched as it is a movie about a remake of the TV show Bewitched. I think this may have confused the audience going into the movie, which may be why no one liked it. Otherwise, it was cute, funny and fluffy. It’s no more than I expected it to be. If you have no interest in the TV show Bewitched, you’ll probably have no interest in this movie.

I guess I was expecting more from this movie. I’ve never read the book and didn’t know a whole lot about the story. It was very… teenage girlish. Not that there’s anything bad about that, but it’s more appropriate for teenage girls than it is for adults. I couldn’t identify with much of anything in the movie although it left me teary at times. The best part was the beautiful views in Greece.

The movie was… okay. They left out a lot. In fact, the people who were screaming last year that the plot in Prisoner of Azkaban was excessively stripped should have held their breath until viewing this installment. They left out the entire Rita Skeeter sub-plot, although they did show her nosing in on the students a few times and the actress seemed to have her personality down. I think that was the most important detail to overlook. This movie, much more so than the others, was almost unwatchable without having read the book first. I don’t know how I feel about the director, but I do know I’d take Alfonso Cuarón back any day of the week.

I think what bugged me most was that it constantly cut from one five minute scene to the next. There was no real dialog, no sense of close-knit friends. I understand you can only do so much when you have to cram a book as large as this into a two and a half hour movie. I understand this is why plots were left out. Still, couldn’t they have done it Lord of the Rings style and filmed a long, 5 hour movie which was able to get in more of the plot, and then break them into two movies, showing them a couple months apart? I guess that’s too much to ask.

I don’t know how they’re going to do the next movie at all. It’ll just be a series of 30 second clips going from one scene to the next.

The cinematography and special effects were amazing. This bathtub scene (probably one of the longest in the whole film) provided much needed comic relief. I was disappointed with how little Ron and Hermione were in this. I think the twins may have been in it more than them, not that I’m complaining about their amount of screen time.

I guess overall I was just a little disappointed. It was still worth seeing (even worth paying $25 for tickets and fees) but this is undoubtedly my least favorite of the movies so far. Then again, the Goblet of Fire was my least favorite book as well.

Illegal Irish immigrants move to America to provide a better life for their two daughters after losing their only son. I am not sure, but this seems very much like a true story. Nothing particularly exciting happened and it was a lot about the daily struggle this family goes through. They move into an apartment building filled with junkies and questionable characters.

I’m not good at summarizing movies (in case you couldn’t tell) but this was a pretty good one. It nearly had me in tears a few times. The children were beautiful. Definitely worth watching!

Don’t kid yourself, this movie was about two things: Boobs and Car Chases. I find both wildly entertaining, but somehow even combined together, they didn’t do much for me in this movie. The stunt driving was phenomenal. These are not the Dukes we grew to love in the 80s, however they’re quite probably more accurate versions of these fictional characters if they actually existed. The film had its funny moments, most of which revolved around the insanely perverted and filthy mouthed Uncle Jessie, played by Willie Nelson. Other laughs came from the constant poking fun of the TV show’s ridiculous plots.

All in all, I’d say go ahead and watch it, but don’t go out of your way to do so.

Basic premise: Every 60 years a new guardian must be chosen to protect a scroll with unlimited power. This person is not ordinary and must be able to defend the scroll against any who seek it. Chow Yun-Fat is a Tibetan Monk with the most recent shift of scroll protecting and he’s looking for his replacement. He seems to think he’ll find it in New York City and indeed, Sean William-Scott’s character seems like a good candidate.

The story was a little tired, but the fight scenes weren’t all recycled from Crouching Tiger and both Sean and Chow know how to bring the funny. This movie is probably not worth spending your hard earned cashed on unless you really like fight scenes. But it’s definitely worth catching on HBO or TBS on a lazy Sunday afternoon.

An informative, beautiful and touching movie about Antarctica’s Emperor penguins’ mysterious breeding ritual. It will warm your heart and make you cry. In fact, I had a hard time stomaching some parts, not knowing when a cute moment would fade away and natural selection would rear its ugly, but necessary head. Never fear, the sad parts are never very long. If you have no interest in penguins, there’s little of interest for you here. Otherwise, you need to see this one!