Jain (Jeanne Louise Galice) is a French singer-songwriter and musician. …
A music video for the single “Makeba” was released to Jain’s official YouTube channel on 30 November 2016. The music video was nominated for Best Music Video at the 60th Annual Grammy Awards in 2018 …
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The song references Miriam Makeba also known as “Mama Africa”, a South African singer and activist.
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A Michelin three-star chef is found dead near Clermont-Ferrand in central France..
Suicide? Murder?
Enzo MacLeod, a man with an Italian mother and Scots father, who teaches forensic science in France arrives 7 years later. He wants to find out what really happened.
The food, wine, and settings are described in great detail.
This is a mystery for a gourmand.
Once again, Enzo is apparently irresistible to women. God knows why. It usually ends in disaster.
This is Peter May‘s 5th book of the Enzo Files — and the best, so far, in my opinion.
Increasingly critical of Hollywood, I couldn’t have been more impressed with Top Gun: Maverick.
It’s one of the few films I was happier to see on the big screen rather than streaming.
Jennifer Connelly is gorgeous.
Ed Harris awesome, as always.
In fact the entire cast is made up of beautiful people. Stars.
Special effects were totally convincing for me.
Fans love it. 97% of 431 critics on Rotten Tomatoes like it.
YES it’s cornball and over emotional at times. But I cried, so didn’t feel it weakened the film for me.
In the end, this is a Tom Cruise film. He’s onscreen most of the time.
And Tom Cruise has never let me down before. This might be his best movie yet.
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This is a good one.
Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett is investigating a drone killing wildlife–and the drone belongs to a mysterious and wealthy man whose son is dating Joe’s own daughter, Lucy.
Meanwhile, bodies are piling up in and around Joe’s district in shocking numbers.
He begins to fear that a pack of four vicious killers working on behalf of the Sinaloa cartel known as the Wolf Pack has arrived
Thought I wasn’t all that impressed with Kenneth Branagh’s Murder on the Orient Express (2017), this film with the director playing Hercule Poirot is excellent.
Death on the Nile has a great cast of characters ALL of whom have a good motive to have committed murder.
Of course the fantastic Egyptian landscape helps.
In addition, I really liked Sophie Okonedo as Salome Otterbourne, jazz singer.
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The new psychological thriller is getting great reviews.
It’s an “unreliable narrator” piece.
Sadly, it didn’t work for me. The plot is interesting, but was too painfully drawn out for too long.
Not one of the main characters held any appeal.
Emma is quickly approaching her 40th birthday — the same age her mother was when she began having trouble sleeping.
As she struggles with intergenerational trauma and balancing 10 hour days as a successful lawyer with life with her family life, Emma’s situation spirals into a dangerous and intense tale.
Without sleep, is Emma hallucinating? Or is she going mad?
On the other hand, if you liked all the other psychological thrillers — Girl on a Train, for example — you’ll likely enjoy this one, as well.
I went back to Wheel of Time — planning to follow the story this time. It’s the kind of television I should like.
Sadly — It’s no Game of Thrones.
Mixed reviews.
The main character that appealed to me is Daniel Henney as al’Lan Mandragoran, Moiraine’s Warder and companion. A nuanced prerformance.
Casting seems a bit uninspired. Interactions between characters not convincing.
Actually, Abdul Salis as Eamon Valda is a very believable bad guy.
And Loial portrayed by Hammed Animashaun is charming.
BUT … production values are surprisingly poor at times. The wolf attack in episode 5 was like bad TV from the 1970s.
This was one of the most expensive TV series of all time. Yet many of the special effects look fake.
The battle / birthing scene at the beginning of episode 7 is EPIC, however. Worthy of the film 300.
I’ll probably watch season 2. I hear it gets better.
The scenery is fantastic. Czech Republic, Slovenia, and South Africa are locations.
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A cute idea.
Queen Elizabeth II secretly solves crimes while carrying out her royal duties.
It is the early spring of 2016 and Queen Elizabeth is at Windsor Castle in advance of her 90th birthday celebrations. But the preparations are interrupted by the shocking and untimely death of a guest in one of the Castle bedrooms. The scene leads some to think the young Russian pianist strangled himself, yet a badly tied knot leads MI5 to suspect foul play.
When they begin to question the Household’s most loyal servants, Her Majesty knows they’re looking in the wrong place. …
Away from the public eye and unbeknownst to her closest friends and advisers, she has the most brilliant skill for solving crimes. …
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Adrian McKinty is an excellent author, under appreciated until his 2019 hit book The Chain.
An Uber driver at the time, the film option earned McKinty $1.5 million
The Island (2022) is intense.
Hulu has acquired the rights to develop The Island as a limited TV series.
After moving from a small country town to Seattle, Heather Baxter marries Tom, a widowed doctor with a young son and teenage daughter. …
When they discover remote Dutch Island, off-limits to outside visitors, the family talks their way onto the ferry, taking a chance on an adventure far from the reach of iPhones and Instagram.
But as soon as they set foot on the island, which is run by a tightly knit clan of locals, everything feels wrong. Then a shocking accident propels the Baxters from an unsettling situation into an absolute nightmare. …
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Book #2 of the English translations of his Detective Galileo series.
Police are frustrated trying to solve the murder of a businessman in his own home.
Poison.
Was the mistress? Or the rejected wife? Or someone else.
Finally they call in a genius — Manabu Yukawa, a university physics professor who’s something like a Japanese Sherlock Holmes. His nickname is Detective Galileo.
Slow paced, like book #1 in the series – Devotion of Suspect X.
Yet I was never bored in either book. The professor is a fascinating character. And the slow burn feels authentically Japanese.
Here’s how Yukawa was cast in one TV adaptation.
Kaoru Utsumi, a rookie female detective, is wonderful too.
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