Movie Review: Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Star Wars: The Force Awakens - Directed by J.J. Abrams     Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ My daughter's fiancé took me to see the new Star Wars...

Movie Review: Spotlight

Spotlight Journalism at its best is a solid bulwark against tyranny and the abuse of power. The dynamic investigative reporters who...

Movie Review: The Revenant

The Revenant If ever there was a movie that clearly displays the utter brutality of nature untamed, it is the new film from Alejandr...

Movie Review: The Martian

The Martian - Directed by Ridley Scott         Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ I wasn't originally planning to go see The Martian. The stor...

Movie Review: Murder on the Orient Express

Murder on the Orient Express - Directed by Kenneth Branagh    Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ In some ways I am lucky in that I had never read Ag...

Book Review: Nietzsche and the Nazis by Stephen R.C. Hicks

Nietzsche and the Nazis by Stephen R.C. Hicks Walter Kaufmann, the foremost Nietzsche scholar in the world, set out after the war to...

Movie Review: The Post

The Post - Directed by Stephen Spielberg          Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Spoiler Alert: Much of the plot is revealed here, but that shouldn...

Movie Review: The Greatest Showman

The Greatest Showman - Directed by Michael Gracey        Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ The disconnect between the hoity-toity cultural elite and...

Book Review: Fifteen Dogs by André Alexis

Follow us on Facebook Recently a couple of old friends from the island stayed with us for a few days. When I mentioned that I was going ba...