Reviews - February 2013
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Movie: Silver Linings Playbook
While still a romantic comedy, Silver Linings Playbook also offers lessons about living with mental illness and family dynamics. It is definitely a movie that will leave you in awe and in search of your own silver lining.
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TV: American Horror Story
Season 2 of American Horror Story brings the viewers a plotline that might as well be a knitting pattern. Brad Falchuk and Ryan Murphy manage to present a story with a powerful and coherent history, as well as a level of craziness that we couldn’t even have dreamed for in Season 1.
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TV: Nikita
I mean, come on, the word "femme fatale" should have been the clincher here. But if anything, the fact that Nikita was being played by the ever-beautiful action star Maggie Q made it even more enticing. And when I heard Shane West was casted as the leading man? Come on, it was too hard to pass up!
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Book: The Stepsister Scheme
So what happens when Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, and Snow White team up to rescue a prince? They become the fairy tale world’s version of Charlie’s Angels, that’s what.
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Book: Phoenix Rising
From Antarctica to London to an English countryside, Philippa Ballantine and Tee Morris did not fail to entertain, either by producing witty dialogue, poignant and interesting storylines, and even the shock factors that put the "punk" in the sub-genre. Whatever the case, I'm clearly thirsting for more.
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Book: Gone Girl
The truth of love and lies, that is what you will find yourself trying to unravel in reading Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn, a first class psycho-whodunit. In this novel, Flynn delves deep into the psyche of our current world. She works her characters through the harsh realities of a failing economy, a digital takeover of the writing world, a judicial system that does not always work in the favor of the innocent, over-bearing and over-exacting parents, and the lies we tell ourselves and the world.
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Book: Xenogenesis
The truth of love and lies, that is what you will find yourself trying to unravel in reading Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn, a first class psycho-whodunit. In this novel, Flynn delves deep into the psyche of our current world. She works her characters through the harsh realities of a failing economy, a digital takeover of the writing world, a judicial system that does not always work in the favor of the innocent, over-bearing and over-exacting parents, and the lies we tell ourselves and the world.
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