Gilmore Girls to Make Long-Anticipated Return
Gilmore Girls, staged in the storybook town of Stars Hollow, Connecticut, follows the story of Lorelai Gilmore, her daughter, Rory Gilmore, and their everyday drama. Lorelai Gilmore is a sarcastic, single mom, working at an inn to support her daughter, who dreams of attending Harvard. Lorelai reconnects with her well-off parents who have shunned her for her life choices through …
Harry Potter and the Dreadful Disappointment
WARNING: CONTAINS MAJOR SPOILERS I, along with most of the wizarding world, was beyond excited for the release of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. Even though I knew it was a script rather than a novel, and even though I knew J.K. Rowling had some help writing it, I couldn’t wait to crack open the cover, revisit my favorite …
Artemis Fowl is a Timeless Tween Novel
I can’t pretend that Eoin Colfer’s Artemis Fowl books are really recent enough to warrant a review: they were published, one a year, starting in 2001. However, I had loads of free time this weekend, so I picked up the first novel in the series, Artemis Fowl, just to see if it was really as good as my seven-year-old self …
ABC’s Scandal Beginning to Overstay Welcome
The classic ABC political thriller Scandal, which finished its fifth season in May of this year, is hanging by a thread. The show has quickly deteriorated; it is a shell of the exciting masterpiece it once was. This is not an especially new phenomenon for Scandal: signs of distress and discontent were evident in the viewers by the end of …
Stranger Things is Netflix’s Next Big Thing
Stranger Things, a Netflix original TV show aired in July 2016, is a supernatural, science fiction thriller that had everyone watching on the edge of their seats. Set in the 1980’s in the made-up town of Hawkins, Indiana, the show is about the mysterious disappearance of 12 year-old Will Byers and his friends’ and family’s attempts to find him. …
‘Florence Foster Jenkins’ Makes Audiences Weep Tears of Laughter
Meryl Streep debuts on the big screen once again, portraying real-life figure Florence Foster, a mid-twentieth century New York socialite and amateur soprano. Foster has an astounding love for music and the theater, and dreams of sharing her singing with the world, though on more than one occasion, her voice falls flat. She is a lively character who walks with …