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Blog Entries by Jackie K. Cooper from 11/2010

Karen White's Falling Home Is All About Small Town Living and Loving

| Posted 11.03.2010

Novelist Karen White's Falling Hoome is a re-tooled, expanded story that shows her at her storytelling best.

For Colored Girls Should Have Stayed on the Stage

| Posted 11.08.2010

Movie maker Tyler Perry has taken Ntozake Shange's play For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf and made it into a film...

Due Date Is a Career Stumble for Downey, Jr.

| Posted 11.09.2010

Due Date is a cross country adventure to be endured and that classification is deadly for any comedy. When you want the trip to end and the movie to be over you know you are in trouble.

Morning Glory Is Fluff But Good Fluff

| Posted 11.11.2010

Morning Glory is a lighthearted film that starts off a little slow but ends up being embraced by the audience. Stars Rachel McAdams, Harrison Ford and...

Deaver's Edge Is Sharp

| Posted 11.12.2010

Jeffery Deaver's novels usually feature as lead characters either the crime fighting team of Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs, or the criminal investiga...

The Next Three Days: Desperate Characters

| Posted 11.22.2010

The new film The Next Three Days is advertised as an action thriller, and at the end it is. But at the start it is purely a psychological thriller tha...

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1: Half the Book, Half the Entertainment

| Posted 11.24.2010

If seeing Harry, Hermione and Ron battle danger on their own excites you, then you might get something out of this film. However, for everyone who wants the full cast involved, this movie is not one of the best.

The Emperor's Tomb Provides More Than Enough Historical Background About China

| Posted 11.29.2010

In this day and age it is wise to know as much about China as possible. Perhaps that is why author Steve Berry gives you a history lesson and a half i...

Love and Other Drugs Never Finds Its Focus

| Posted 11.30.2010

Love and Other Drugs is one of those movies that looks so good in the trailer and is so disappointing when you go to see it. The film stars Jake Gylle...