Movies
Bohemian Rhapsody
Nobody’s Fool
The Front Runner
A Star is Born
Robin Hood
Overlord
The Happy Prince
At Eternity’s Gate
Documenting Hate
Narcissister Organ Player
Cut: Exposing FGM Worldwide
TV Series
Nightflyers season 1
American Vandal season 1
Ackley Bridge series 2
Channel Zero: Dream Door season 4
Doctor Who: Resolution
Music
A Symphony of Hits by Michael Bolton
H.E.R. by H.E.R.
Thank U, Next by Ariana Grande
Head Above Water by Avril Lavigne
Can’t Say I Ain’t Country by Florida Georgia Line
Live In London by Mavis Staples
Cascadia by Said the Whale
Audiobooks
The Chef by James Patterson & Max Dilallo
Kafka’s Metamorphosis in his pocket. Sparks fly between the two almost immediately, but a series of problems crops up just as quick. The first is Aliesha’s current boyfriend, the kind but lukewarm Javiel, who’s pressing Aliesha for a deeper commitment. Then there’s her ex, who seems to still be holding the torch for her, despite being dumped long ago. And Dante has his reservations as well—after spending a night with Aliesha, he vanishes without a trace. Will their undeniable chemistry draw Dante out of hiding and bring them back together? Or will Aliesha have to find a new boyfriend and a new barber?
How do you learn about and use social media to get to know your daughter’s life and to trace her last steps before she went missing? Excellent!
all time. A little boy in bed with a cold is visited by his grandfather, who reads him a bedtime story that has everything– swordfights, giants, poison, rodents of unusual size,and above all, true love.
truly a great album for all year round. Not only does it include some of frontman Danny Elfman and co.’s more notable hits (“Weird Science” and the titular “Dead Man’s Party”) but also some lesser-known but equally fun and danceable tunes– my personal favorite is “No One Lives Forever.”
“When a blonde sorority queen is dumped by her boyfriend, she decides to follow him to law school to get him back and, once there, learns she has more legal savvy than she ever imagined.”
winning film is still a joy, a screwball comedy to which director Frank Capra adds a social conscience. Lionel Barrymore perfectly fits the role of harmonica-playing wise man, Edward Arnold is his typical blustering self, James Stewart speaks truth to power in the person of his father, and top-billed Jean Arthur continues her sterling career as an ingratiating, independent working woman. She and Stewart would be paired the following year in Capra’s Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.
determined to become a writer, but turns her friends’ lives, and a small Mississippi town, upside down when she decides to interview the black women who have spent their lives taking care of prominent southern families. Aibileen, Skeeter’s best friend’s housekeeper, is the first to open up, to the dismay of her friends in the tight-knit black community.” 
her prestigious, mainly white private school. This all changes when she finds herself in the middle of racial activism after her best friend is shot by police officers, and she’s forced to make a decision. Allow the media to skewer her friend to protect the status quo, or stand up and tell the truth in memory of Khalil?”
the African American community, but refuses to accept that racism exists, or that she and her loved ones might be affected by it. But when a coincidence brings the two women together, they are forced to confront not only the ugly truth of their respective situations, but also the lies they have told and the deep fears they keep hidden within themselves.
and her husband take a second honeymoon, glad to be reunited after World War II. However, when she touches a boulder in a mysterious stone ruin, Claire becomes separated from him again—not by distance, but by time. Claire finds herself transported to Scotland in the year 1743. Caught in the throes of a very different war, she is rescued from sinister British troops by a clan of Highlanders. She adjusts fairly well to life in the past, using her nursing skills to treat the ailments of her rescuers, all the while biding her time until she can return to the circle of stones. However, before she can escape, circumstances force her into a marriage to the handsome and passionate Jamie Fraser. Will Clare ever find her way back to her own time? Or has fate somehow tied her to Jamie and to Clan MacKenzie? And if that’s the case, will she want to go home at all?
for decades. In the 1950s, with the plethora of horror and science fiction films filling theater and drive-in screens, it became de rigeur for heroines to rise in the night and traipse around the manse to investigate strange sounds and naturally encounter The Screaming Skull or an 
erstwhile hubby transformed into an alien in I Married a Monster from Outer Space. Mala Powers might be described as the “Queen of Negligees.” See The Unknown Terror (1957), Man on the Prowl (1957) and The Colossus of New York (1958).
in 1965’s The Rounders and Omar Sharif did the same in 1969’s Mackenna’s Gold) the leading lady took a dip (what about snakes?) and might have had her drying duds stolen from the bushes. See Virginia Mayo in The Tall Stranger (1957), Maria Schell in Cimarron (1960), Joan O’Brien in Six Black Horses (1962), Sue Ane Langdon in The Rounders (1965), and Rosemary Forsyth in Texas Across the River (1966).
in NYC. (As if combating the change, Lee J. Cobb’s chief of detectives still wears a fedora even when sitting behind his desk!) In 
rooms and apartments of Doris Day, Rock Hudson, James Garner, Rod Taylor, and Jane Fonda? Sometimes there are young children roaming around. See Boys Night Out (1962), 
Delilah
feature Elizabeth Taylor in lounging attire while Rex Harrison and Richard Burton look over her shoulder, but in the movie the only true lounging scene has the Queen of the Nile’s maidservants gathered around her as Caesar enters post-bath. With the decline in ancient world epics after the failure of 
the right one, their friendship deepens into something more complex, and often laugh-out-loud funny. Along the way they encounter bus crashes, housewarming ceremonies where a cow is the guest of honor, and cow urine tablets that are meant to prevent strange dreams. Narayan’s book leads readers to explore not only the joys and complexities of female friendship, but also the cultural presence and significance of the sacred cow in Indian culture, and how we are all connected on a universal level to both animals and food.
