Directed by David Fincher 5 Stars David Fincher’s 1999 film Fight Club is an adaptation of Chuck Palahniuk’s novel of the same name. It tells the story of an unnamed narrator (Edward Norton). The narrator has a very ordinary life. He works a 9-5 job, he goes on frequent business trips, and he has an…
Book Review: The Poisonwood Bible
by Barbara Kingsolver In 1959, a family of evangelical Baptists from America relocated to the Belgian Congo on a mission to spread Christianity. Led by Nathan Price, the father of the family, the mother and four children experience the beauty, horror, and undoing of their family, all while the Congo faces its own political turmoil…
Book Review: The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
by Taylor Jenkins Reid 5 Stars The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo was the first book I read last year, and it was a great choice. Ageing and unsociable Hollywood movie icon Evelyn Hugo is ready; to tell the truth about her glamourous and notorious life. But when she chooses an unknown magazine reporter named…
Movie Review: She’s All That
Directed by Robert Iscove 3 Stars This movie, released in 1999 and directed by Robert Iscove, is considered a Teen Fiction classic. It’s set in California and follows Zach Siler. Torrance High‘s star student and athlete who accepts a bet with one of his jock friends. It entails turning one of their school's most undesirable…
Movie Review: Belle
Directed by Amma Asante 5 Stars Though 2014’s Belle, directed by Amma Asante, is based on true events and adapted from a 2014 book of a similar name, I can neither evaluate its historical accuracy nor compare it to the preceding book. I can merely comment—or rather rave—on its delivery in this medium. It follows…
Movie Review: Real Steel
Directed by Shawn Levy 4 Stars This 2011 movie, directed by Shawn Levy, is set in the year 2020—which might suggest that we, in the real world, are a bit behind—an age in which not much has changed except that rather monstrous and mechanical robots have replaced human boxers in the fighting ring. Boxing is…
Movie Review: Power Rangers
Directed by Dean Isrealite 4 Stars Much like 2013’s Man of Steel, Power Rangers, released in 2017 and directed by Dean Israelite, begins with the failure of a previous generation of heroes. The main characters go on to uncover buried spaceships that house all the answers to the powers they have been bestowed. Their conflicts…
Movie Review: In the Heart of the Sea
Directed by Ron Howard 5 Stars It’s 1820, the streets and much else are long-lit, and whale oil is a paramount commodity. Ron Howard’s In the Heart of the Sea, released in 2015, recounts the events of Herman Melville’s Moby Dick and more. However, this is a mere commentary on the storytelling in this medium…
Book Review: One of Us is Lying
by Karen M. McManus 4 Stars One of Us Is Lying was my first YA “Whodunit” book, and it did not disappoint. Karen M. McManus writes in a way that hooks you right from the very beginning and keeps you guessing until the end! One of Us Is Lying follows the story of five Bayview…
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