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Review: A Higher Loyalty

July 4, 2021 Review Book 2 comments Reading time: 1 minutes

I just finished reading “A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership” by James Comey. If you’re from the USA or have closely followed back when Trump got first elected as the President of the USA you might’ve heard the name. …

Review: Homeland Season 8

April 29, 2020 Review TV Show Leave a comment Reading time: 1 minutes

It’s done. Homeland, the TV show, has come to an end. After 8 years, which I’ve followed along since the beginning. When you think about it we did not have to commit much time during these 8 years. The episodes …

Review: Airplane! (1980)

April 9, 2020 Review Movie Leave a comment Reading time: 1 minutes

I’m ashamed I hadn’t watched this movie before. I had seen memes out of it but never the whole thing. I simply did not know where those memes came from. This is one of the funniest movies I’ve ever watched …

Review: Parasite

January 11, 2020 Review Movie One comment Reading time: 1 minutes

I wasn’t fully convinced after watching the trailer. It does not make the movie justice. However, I gave it a try after seeing the movie had been highlighted in festivals and took the 2020 Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture …

Review: Artemis

January 9, 2020 Review Book Leave a comment Reading time: 1 minutes

[This is a spoiler-free review] I had enjoyed a lot the first from Andy Weir (The Martian), I gave it a 5 out of 5. Naturally when I saw he had written another space book (not related to The Martian) …

Review: The Ghost Brigades

December 5, 2019 Review Book Leave a comment Reading time: 1 minutes

This is the second book in the Old Man’s War series...

Review: Old Man’s War

October 25, 2019 Review Book 3 comments Reading time: 1 minutes

John Perry did two things on his 75th birthday. First he visited his wife’s grave. Then he joined the army. The good news is that humanity finally made it into interstellar space. The bad news is that planets fit to …