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Monday, June 30, 2025

Movie Review - "Copycat" (Jon Amiel)

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 1995 Meaningless Rating: * I'm a sucker for thrillers of the 1990s, a sub-genre unto itself, and always on the lookout for a new hidden...
Wednesday, June 25, 2025

Movie Review - "To Live and Die in L.A." (William Friedkin)

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 1985 Meaningless Rating: ***** Another neon night in the city of angels. Secret Service agents Jimmy (Michael Greene) and Chance (William P...
Tuesday, June 24, 2025

Movie Review - "Mouchette" (Robert Bresson)

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1967 Meaningless Rating: **** How much humiliation can one girl take? It's not enough she's poor; it's not enough she has no fut...
Monday, June 23, 2025

Book Review - "The Poet" (Michael Connelly) - Bosch-verse Book 5

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 Meaningless Rating: ** In this overwrought, and sometimes flat-out stupid, novel, Connelly introduces the first new hero since Harry Bosch ...

Book Review - "The Last Coyote" (Michael Connelly) - Bosch-verse Book 4

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 Meaningless Rating: ***1/2 On suspension due to throwing his supervisor through a window, Bosch finally commits to solving the biggest case...

Book Review - "The Concrete Blonde" (Michael Connelly) - Bosch-verse Book 3

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 Meaningless Rating: **** In the greatest Bosch-verse novel up to this point the author shows early on his aptitude for the courtroom drama....
Friday, June 20, 2025

Book Review - "The Black Ice" (Michael Connelly) - Bosch-verse Book 2

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 Meaningless Rating: ***1/2 It's a warm Christmas night in the city of angels. LAPD Detective Harry Bosch is called out to a flea-bag mo...