Sherlock Holmes, Mission Impossible, The Art of Shaving, Wages

By John Brown | December 27, 2011 - 1:13 pm |September 6, 2012 John's Reviews - books, movies, whatever

Sherlock Holmes & Mission Impossible I have been looking forward to two movies this holiday season. One of them was as good as I’d hoped it would be. The other disappointed me because the story tellers forgot to make things clear. The two movies were Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol and Sherlock Holmes: A Game of →

Miss Potter, Downton Abbey, Human Planet

By John Brown | November 1, 2011 - 10:33 am |November 1, 2011 John's Reviews - books, movies, whatever

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Miss Potter, a true romance How many shows are good enough that you can walk into them partway through and within a minute become completely engrossed? I found two this week. The first is the 2006 film Miss Potter, which tells the story of Beatrix Potter (1866-1943), who is the best selling children’s author of →

Sing-Off, Reliable Contractors, Cruise & Valkyrie

By John Brown | October 4, 2011 - 7:57 am |October 4, 2011 John's Reviews - books, movies, whatever

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The Best Vocal Show Currently Running We are now two weeks into the third season of NBC’s The Sing-Off, and it’s going to be just as good as last year’s or better. It airs for the next few weeks on Mondays from 7-9 p.m. Mountain. But you can catch the performances on the site http://www.nbc.com/sing-off/ if →

Cranford, Balsamic Vinaigrette, Nebo Grotto Falls

By John Brown | July 12, 2011 - 1:35 pm |July 12, 2011 John's Reviews - books, movies, whatever

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Cranford For those of you who love stories like Pride and Prejudice, have I got a TV mini-series for you—the BBC’s five-part Cranford. The series is set in the 1840’s in England in the fictional village in North West England and focuses primarily on a handful of the town’s single middle-class ladies who are forced →

Schoolhouse Rock – Fireworks!

By John Brown | July 4, 2011 - 8:54 am |July 4, 2011 John's Reviews - books, movies, whatever

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I love, LOVE, a number of the old Schoolhouse Rock videos. My most favorite for the 4th is “Fireworks”. My family and I have been singing this all weekend. We’ve even got the backup down (grin). Hooray for the signers and all their colonist supporters! Hooray for America!!