Film Review: PHOENIX

by | Sep 11, 2015 | Films

Phoenix Written and Directed by Christian Petzold Starring: Nina Hoss, Ronald Zehrfeld, Nina Kunzendorf German Language Film It is 1945 Berlin, and Nelly, a Jewish cabaret singer, returns from a concentration camp where she has been shot in the face. Her friend, Lene,...

RUMRUNNERS BY ERIC BEETNER

by | Sep 10, 2015 | Books, Reviews

280 steps. Eric Beetner writes a lot of books. Most of them tend to lean to the darker, pulpier side of the bookshelf. Short, violent crime capers that continue to pump threads of originality into the crime genre. Usually there is a sly wink to be found in Beetner’s...

Mockingbird by Chelsea Cain and Joelle Jones

by | Sep 10, 2015 | Comics

Mockingbird #1 Chelsea Can and Joelle Jones Marvel Comics This new series opens with a nice murder mystery as we get in glimpse into who Bobbie Morse is now and who she was. Bobbi’s college mentor and the woman who got her into S.H.I.E.L.D. is murdered and Bobbi comes...

Lisa Brackmann Interview

by | Sep 10, 2015 | Books

Jon: It seems to me from reading your books that Ellie would just love to do her thing and be left alone to do it. And yet she keeps falling into these situations that just throw her life up in the air. Do you feel any guilt for doing this to her? Lisa: I feel...