Altered Carbon is a science fiction mystery thriller published almost fifty years after Asimov’s science fiction mystery, the Caves of Steel. Asimov envisaged a future humanity afraid and suspicious of robot intelligence. Morgan’s Altered Carbon future is the polar opposite. Humanity has embraced digital technology to such an extent that even the human mind is […]
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“You never had a camera in my head.” The Truman Show (1998), directed by Peter Weir, is a sci-fi-drama film that (quite literally) follows the life of Truman Burbank (Jim Carrey). Since he was in utero, Truman has unknowingly been filmed by hidden cameras, 24 hours a day, for the whole world to see. Over […]
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Dashiell Hammett’s The Thin Man, published in 1933, four years after The Maltese Falcon, demonstrated Hammett’s expansion of and impact on the detective mystery genre. The author’s real-life experience as a Pinkerton Agency investigator provided him with a unique set of skills and experiences that provide gritty and true-to-life experiences of his characters. It’s not […]
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Annika is a modern police procedural, written by Nick Walker in 2021. This lighthearted and funny series is well written and superbly performed in the best tradition of British mystery drama. DI Annika Strandhed and her Marine Homicide Unit investigate murders along the gorgeous Scottish shoreline. The private lives of Annika and her team are […]
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Tana French’s hard-to-believe murder mystery follows detective Cassie Maddox as she operates in an undercover capacity, slipping into the life of Lexie Madison, a murdered woman who was fraudulently living as detective Maddox’s undercover persona. Taking place in Glenskehy, a small town outside of Dublin, Ireland, the murder occurs near an abandoned, dilapidated cottage near […]
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Opening statement: The Batman, 2022. Featuring Robert Pattinson as The Batman, director Matt Reeves. Also featuring Zoë Kravitz, Paul Dano, Jeffrey Wright, John Turturro, Peter Sarsgaard, Andy Serkis, and Colin Farrell. Brief Synopsis: The Batman is a reboot of the popular Batman series; a superhero movie based off of the DC comics Batman character. This […]
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And Then There Were None Agatha Christie Harper Collins Publishers, New York, NY, 2011 Mystery genre, one of Agatha Christie’s most popular books Brief Synopsis The main characters in the plot are ten people who are invited to a week long vacation on a private island. They don’t know each other and they all received […]
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During her career, Agatha wrote and published her novels in a timely manner but when tasked with writing her autobiography it took 15 years to write and it was published after her death. Even in her autobiography, she maintained her privacy and withheld the details related to her disappearance. In her autobiography Agatha refused to […]
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Police officer Nick Spitz and his wife Audrey take a trip to Italy for their 15th wedding anniversary. During their flight, they meet Charles Cavendish, who invites them to spend a weekend in Monaco on his family yacht. The guests on board the yacht include Tobey, Suzi Nakamara, Grace Ballard, Colonel Ulenga, Sergei Radjenko, Maharajah […]
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