Blue Like Jazz (Book)

     Donald Miller delivers an adventure through topics of humanity and Christian spirituality in encounters primarily based in Portland, Oregon and around Reed College. The tangible essays look at challenging ideals, lessons in maturity and the search for that esoteric “other” through Donald Miller’s journey.

Olympus Has Fallen - K

To be fair, I wasn't horribly interested in seeing Olympus Has Fallen, but we needed a good theatre diversion after having gone through the likes of the new wanna be Die Hard where Bruce Willis (my favorite action actor ever) mailed it in, and the new GI Joe where expectations were not high and still we were rocked (and not in a good way).  So, we wanted a neutral movie. And, neutral is what we got. 

It's A Good Day to Die Hard

I have long been a fan of the Die Hard series. I was even OK with the cartoon version (4) that came out a couple years ago. To be perfectly blunt the latest installment in the Die Hard franchise was a piece of crap. See below if you really want to know how big of a piece of crap it was.

Prometheus - D

Yeah not so much

OK so a little while ago my wife (K) and I went to see Prometheus. We were both pretty excited for one of those few movies that make it so you understand why horror/sci-fi are often grouped together in video stores (yes some of those still exist!). We wanted a great thriller in space, like Event Horizon, or Pitch Black (both excellent films). This was originally billed as a "prequel to Alien" until Ridley Scott backed out of it and gave the whole "Same universe, different story" interview, this of course was complete bullshit. In all fairness I was never a huge fan of the original Alien trilogy, but I was definitely looking forward to a intense sci-fi thriller, and boy howdy was I ever let down. If you're a big fan of the series by all means you'll probably like it, a lot of people have. If you're hoping for an intelligent thriller, well you should just skip it, or at least wait till it hits those video stores and find a local one to support. (SPOILERS ABOUND BELOW)


Update: I saw this and found it to be both hilarious and accurate :)

Hanna - K

Hanna - circa 2011, a movie I was actually interested in going to the theatre to see, but as we've cut down on our at theatre movie intake, managed to refrain.  Tonight, watched it on our On Demand.  Short summary plot - girl grows up trained as an assassin and is set loose for a specific purpose.

First Music Review from Kronicles

Naturally, Kronicles of KD's first music review has to be hosted by the expert. And the expert would be....Dave, Kronicle's contributor of the awesome review of "The Sitter".

The Hunger Games (Movie) - K

Let me start with saying - this review is coming from someone who has not read the book(s) yet.  So, the review is only about the movie, no comparisons to the book included here.  And the movie?  I loved it.