Korik, Bloodguard leader of the ill-fated mission to Seareach and Coercri

Master Barsonage was surprised by because Geraden was shocked that translating a flat mirror into a curved mirror didn't work to explain how people were being translated into Mordant without going mad. With most Imagers, the very idea of translating one mirror into another would be a shock, but Gera...

EL DORADO (1967): Gun-for-hire Cole Thornton (John Wayne) comes to El Dorado, Texas for three reasons: to see his old flame Maudie (Charlene Holt), to check on his friend Sheriff J.P. Harrah (Robert Mitchum), and to see about working with cattle baron Bart Jason (Ed Asner) as force against the nearb...

I was somewhat interested to view a flick that concerns a discontented Nazi colonel (Tom Cruise), who is feeling that Adolf Hitler is bringing Germany to ruin. With the help of other Nazi officers tired of Hitler (played by Kenneth Branagh, Tom Wilkinson, Terrence Stamp, and others), he plans to get...

Thank you for the update, peter! I think you will enjoy reading McCaffrey (at least, I know that I certainly have!). Because you have access to both the Harper Hall trilogy and the first three published books about the dragonriders, I recommend reading them in this order: Dragonflight Dragonquest Dr...

Not too long ago, I watched a movie from the year 2008 called The Wrestler. It stars Mickey Rourke as aging wrestler Randy "The Ram" Robinson, who is told by his doctor after he suffers a severe heart attack (and has to undergo the resulting bypass surgery) that he must retire from the rin...

Ironic that this next movie I'm reviewing is written by the same guy, Stuart Beattie, that wrote the Derailed movie that I disliked--because I like this movie Collateral that I am about to review so much better. I have read that Collateral director/producer Michael Mann did a lot of impromptu rewrit...

Thank you, Sarge. Whatever complaints I had about the humor in it are merely nitpicking. I think in general this movie is both profound and positive.

I realize that I have in the past complained to many people about movies being quite violent, but at the risk of sounding hypocritical I would like to say some words of praise about Quentin Tarantino's western Django Unchained. The violence is pretty over-the-top with villains that are shot gushing ...

Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind: has a strong romantic theme to it, but is also somewhat of a psychological thriller mixed in with a little slapstick comedy. Introverted Joel (Jim Carrey) falls in love with extroverted and partly crazy Clementine (Kate Winslet). When they go through a painful ...

This movie review is about The Incredible Hulk (the 2008 version). I'm not big on superhero movies, but I at least have three that I like in my collection (Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Iron Man, and The Dark Knight). The plot of this Hulk movie is kind of thin at first. It involves the scientist ...

I watched the movie called 300, about King Leonidas of Sparta resisting the invasion of Persian hordes lead by King Xerxes, who wants to be worshipped as a God (and is dressed in an unbelievably gaudy and mist likely hisyorically inaccurate manner). Leonidas and the Spartans resist for a while, defe...

Sarge - haven't read the short story. Nor seen Cell.

Troy.: The king of Sparta, Agamemnon, has been trying to unite Greece by conquering one city at a time, with leaves Troy with its high walls alone. Then a prince of Troy takes Helen, wife of Agamemnon's brother, with him to Troy to be his live-in lover, and it starts war between Sparta and Troy. Kin...

Mike Enslin (John Cusack), a writer of paranormal phenomena, insists on paying to stay the night in room 1408 of NYC's Dolphin Hotel, despite the repeated discouragement of the hotel manager (Samuel L. Jackson) who warns him that many guests in that room have killed themselves. Enslin feels he can h...

I enjoyed Stardust. A young man named Tristan crosses from England to a magical kingdom to obtain a falling star to win her love, but when he gets to that fallen star, he discovers it's not a celestial rock but a young-looking woman named Yvaine. Yvaine needs protection from a witch (Michelle Pfeiff...

I freaking hated The Boondock Saints. It concerns two Irish-American fraternal twin brothers and their Italian-American friend (who knows all the local crime lords) going on a vigilante-style slaughtering rampage of Russian Mafia figures in South Boston. The movie could have had some potential value...

A comedy set in London. Simon Pegg as Dennis may not have been the director's first choice, but he's not bad as a very nervous groom who runs out on his pregnant wife Libby (Thandie Newton) and five years later comes to deeply regret it. Libby gets involved with successful American businessman Whit ...

I thought Interstellar had a great message about the power of our will to love, as shown in Cooper's energetic attempts to get his daughter's attention after he crosses the black hole's horizon. The relationship between Cooper and fellow astronaut Brand unfortunately lacks chemistry, which is surpri...

Last night I watched Invictus, starring Morgan Freeman as Nelson Mandela and Matt Damon as the captain of the S. African rugby team. Mandela has the inspiration to rally his country around a winning rugby team to help unify his badly-divided nation. I liked this movie.