Reviews
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Movie Review: The Long Goodbye
“The Long Goodbye” is a 1973 Neo Noir detective thriller based on the book of the same name from Raymond Chandler. Elliott Gould plays the protagonist, the legendary sleuth Phillip Marlow. While Chandler’s Marlow is a serious pensive intellectual who enjoys poetry and chess, Gould’s Marlow is a cat loving accommodating person, who is willing Read more
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Podcast Review: Bag man
Bagman, according to Dictionary.com, is While not as intense and intriguing as Maddow’s recent podcast Ultra, Bagman builds its plot episode by episode, and leads the listener to a riveting finale. Bagman is another political story that could have slipped through the cracks as it happened in the shadows of another lager crime, Watergate. It Read more
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Movie Review: Only the Animals
Available on Prime Only the Animals is a hidden gem on prime. It is a non-linear, hyperlink film that has characteristics of several genres, drama, mystery and thriller. What begins as a mystery about a missing woman in a snow storm is revealed to the viewer as a mesmerizing commentary of the loneliness of the Read more
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Podcast Review: Dead End
Presented by Nancy Solomon of NJ Public radio Available on NPR Apple Podcasts Spotify Audacy Podbay Dead End is one of the most popular podcasts of 2022, lucidly narrated by Nancy Solomon. Solomon, a reporter for NJ Public radio transforms herself from investigative reporter to investigator on grisly deaths of a New Jersey power couple Read more
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Podcast Review: Ultra
Ultra is an 8 episode breathtaking podcast from MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow, that tells a long forgotten dark chapter in US History. The epic story, while true and based in its entirety on fact, paradoxically feels like a dystopian Science fiction yarn, Ultra is tale of intrigue, espionage, violence, betrayal, and of heroism that saved a Read more
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Book Review: Wikinomics
Unfair as it is, to review a book like this and its predictions a few years after it is written, I do believe that the exercise does yield useful insights. Wikinomics by Don Tapscott, et al. is a well written and ambitious endeavor that attempts to cover a lot of ground in recent trends. They push Read more
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