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Book Review: The Sacred Art Of Stealing by Christopher Brookmyre
To say this is not your typical mystery/crime novel is like saying Eric Clapton is not your typical guitarist.
Read More »Book Review: Indefensible by David Feige
Despite problems with flow and an occasional bent toward invective, a Bronx public defender gives insight into the world of indigent defense.
Read More »TV Review: 24 – Wagging the Dog
24 works because of the dynamic between politicians and the people protecting them and the American public.
Read More »Book Review: Comeback
Easy scheme, right? Well, except that nothing is ever simple and easy in Westlake/Stark books.
Read More »A Real Pain in the Gas: Hour 15 On 24
Jack showed his sensitive side in a brief scene; the writers are telling us that Jack really has an Alan Alda inside that Bruce Willis façade.
Read More »Things Are Really Heating Up On 24
We saw Edgar die last week and now Tony is dead. The old gang is getting knocked off one by one, and we really only have Chloe and Curtis left.
Read More »DVD Review: Moonlighting – Season Three
Still funnier than most things on television today, this is a classic series, one of the best shows to have aired the ‘80s.
Read More »DVD Review: Traffic (2000) – Criterion Collection
If you love film and don’t own it, you don’t really love film.
Read More »Blogcritics on 24: Day 5
Kiefer Sutherland’s Jack Bauer — gaunt and with close-cropped hair, as if the accumulated weight of his frought past was all the baggage his frame could bear — returns from the (presumed) dead in season five of the hit “clock” series 24 to take on ruthless “Central Asian” (read “Chechen”) …
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