{"id":1002,"date":"2012-06-23T18:06:06","date_gmt":"2012-06-24T01:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.harperkingsley.net\/blog\/?page_id=1002"},"modified":"2012-06-23T18:06:06","modified_gmt":"2012-06-24T01:06:06","slug":"reviews","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/reviews\/","title":{"rendered":"Reviews"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><strong>Movie and Television Reviews<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<ul class=\"lcp_catlist\" id=\"lcp_instance_0\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/re-movie-feast-2006-spoilers-horror\/\">RE MOVIE: Feast (2006) (spoilers, horror)<\/a><div class=\"lcp_excerpt\">Alright, first off: Spoiler alerts.\nSo if you want to watch the movie before reading my ramblings, go do that.\nI&#8217;m going to describe the happenings of the movie, and I&#8217;m also going to fantasize with my brain about all the other choices they could make for a follow up.\nAnd straight off? It was dumb.\nIt was a ...<\/div><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/re-movie-sunshine-beautiful-movie-scifimovies\/\">RE MOVIE: &#8220;Sunshine&#8221; is such a beautiful movie #scifimovies<\/a><div class=\"lcp_excerpt\">There&#8217;s something about the science fiction movie &#8220;Sunshine&#8221; that makes me watch it every time it comes on TV.\nI own a copy of the DVD.\nIt&#8217;s just such a great science fiction movie that I can&#8217;t resist the allure of watching it when it appears.\nYou have to see it from the beginning, so you can understand ...<\/div><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/re-usagi-dropbunny-drop-japanese-movie\/\">RE: Usagi Drop\/Bunny Drop [Japanese movie]<\/a><div class=\"lcp_excerpt\">Based on a manga, I just watched Usagi Drop (or Bunny Drop if you&#8217;ve got a Viki movie pass) and it was adorable. Featuring the guy that played L in the live action Death Note, and the little girl that played young Mako in Pacific Rim.\n \n Daikichi (Kenichi Matsuyama) is a 27-year-old office worker ...<\/div><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/re-hackers-the-movie\/\">RE: Hackers (the movie)<\/a><div class=\"lcp_excerpt\">When I was a teenager, the movie Hackers was the greatest thing ever to me and I loved it. I still have a copy on DVD.\n Sexy Burn, vibrantly dressed Crash, and a bunch of brightly cheerful pseudo-hippies\/anarchists. What wasn&#8217;t there to love? This movie had it all, including a red leather motorcycle suit, close ...<\/div><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/re-the-faculty-movie\/\">Re: The Faculty [movie]<\/a><div class=\"lcp_excerpt\">So this is one of those teen movies where a bunch of kids fight the alien invasion by killing people and doing drugs. Basically, it&#8217;s high school.\nBtw, this movie has a crazy number of famous actors in it &#8212; Elijah Wood, Josh Hartnett, Jordana Brewster, Clea DuVall, Shawn Hatosy, Salma Hayek, Famke Janssen, Christopher McDonald, ...<\/div><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/movie-your-highness-comedy-fantasy\/\">MOVIE: Your Highness [comedy, fantasy]<\/a><div class=\"lcp_excerpt\">Your Highness\nDirected by: David Gordon Green\nStarring: Danny McBride, James Franco, Natalie Portman\nRating: R (for language, imagery, etc)\nStoryline from Universal: Throughout history, tales of chivalry have burnished the legends of brave, handsome knights who rescue fair damsels, slay dragons and conquer evil. But behind many a hero is a good-for-nothing younger brother trying just to stay ...<\/div><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/movie-review-portrait-of-a-beauty-korean\/\">MOVIE REVIEW: Portrait of a Beauty [Korean]<\/a><div class=\"lcp_excerpt\">Title: Portrait of a Beauty\nDirected by Jeon Yoon-soo\nScreenplay by Han Soon-ryeon\nAlternative title : &#8220;Beauty Island&#8221;\nSynopsis borrowed from HanCinema: Born to a family of established court painters, seven-year-old Yun-jeong is a young girl gifted at painting. However, the pressure is on her brother to carry on the proud family tradition, as women aren\u2019t allowed to become ...<\/div><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/re-bachelors-vegetable-store-kdrama\/\">RE: Bachelor&#8217;s Vegetable Store (kdrama)<\/a><div class=\"lcp_excerpt\">I watch all these kdramas and they warp my notions of reality. I think that I sympathize more with straight forward characters like Dong Yi and Han Tae Yang because that&#8217;s pretty much how I am. Though I think they give themselves more trouble than they really need if they would just be honest with ...<\/div><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/tv-show-the-grim-adventures-of-billy-mandy-english\/\">TV SHOW: The Grim Adventures of Billy &#038; Mandy [English]<\/a><div class=\"lcp_excerpt\">The Grim Adventures of Billy &amp; Mandy\nCreator: Maxwell Atoms\nStars: Greg Eagles, Richard Steven Horvitz, and Grey DeLisle\nFeaturing the voices of Greg Eagles (Grim), Grey DeLisle (Mandy), and Richard Steven Horvitz (Billy),the series stars the two main characters, Billy and Mandy, having manipulated the Grim Reaper, usually called &#8220;Grim&#8221;, into being their best friend for eternity ...<\/div><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/movie-i-saw-the-devil-korean\/\">MOVIE: I Saw the Devil [Korean]<\/a><div class=\"lcp_excerpt\">I Saw the Devil\nRated: R for graphic depictions of violence\nDirector: Jee-woon Kim\nWriter: Hoon-hung Park (screenplay)\nStarring: Byung-hun Lee, Min-sik choi, and Gook-hwan Jeon\nSummary borrowed from IMDB: When his pregnant fiancee becomes the latest victim of a serial killer, a secret agent blurs the line between good and evil in his pursuit of revenge.\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;\nWow. I don&#8217;t even ...<\/div><\/li><\/ul><a href=\"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/category\/reviews\/movie-reviews\/\">Archive of movie and television reviews<\/a>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><strong>Book Reviews<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<ul class=\"lcp_catlist\" id=\"lcp_instance_0\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/the-missing-butterfly-by-megan-derr\/\">The Missing Butterfly, by Megan Derr<\/a><div class=\"lcp_excerpt\">Title: The Missing Butterfly\nAuthor: Megan Derr\nGenre: mm rockstar\nNotes: 143 ebook pages\nWebsite: Less Than Three Press\nSummary: Cassidy Monarch had dreams\u2014to sing, to be famous, to tour the world at the head of his own rock band. Then his parents were killed in a tragic accident, leaving him to raise his two siblings. Determined to hold on ...<\/div><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/book-review-white-dragon-manga-action-adventure\/\">White Dragon [manga, action-adventure]<\/a><div class=\"lcp_excerpt\">White Dragon\nAuthor: Wada Shinji\nArtist: Kinutani Yu\nSummary borrowed from OurManga: Pursued by the mob, a young child seeks the protection of White Dragon, an assassin with the ability to morph into male or female, and kills by using&#8230; water&#8230;\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-\nThe sad thing is that I never got to finish this, but I did read some of the ...<\/div><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/book-review-alone-in-my-kings-harem-by-lily-hoshino-japanese-manga-shounen-ai-mm\/\">Alone In My King&#8217;s Harem, by Lily Hoshino [Japanese manga, shounen-ai, m\/m]<\/a><div class=\"lcp_excerpt\">Alone In My King&#8217;s Harem\nAuthor: Lily Hoshino\nReleased by: Digital Manga\nSummary borrowed from Wikipedia: Alone in My King&#8217;s Harem (\u30cf\u30ec\u30e0\u3067\u3072\u3068\u308a Haremu de Hitori) is a 2004 manga by Hoshino Lily. One of the first titles released by Digital Manga Publishing. Alone in My King&#8217;s Harem is composed of six stories, with only the last two stories ...<\/div><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/just-read-an-awful-book\/\">Just read an awful book<\/a><div class=\"lcp_excerpt\">I&#8217;m not going to name any names, but I just read the most boring and lackluster romance story I have ever had the displeasure of coming across. Not because it was badly written or anything, but because it had so much potential. There was all this build up, then nothing happened. Then there was the ...<\/div><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/book-review-merchanters-luck-by-c-j-cherryh\/\">Merchanter&#8217;s Luck, by C.J. Cherryh<\/a><div class=\"lcp_excerpt\">Title: Merchanter&#8217;s Luck (Company Wars, #2) Author:&nbsp;C.J. Cherryh Genre:&nbsp;sci-fi Summary: The fateful meeting between the owner of a tramp star-freighter that flies the Union planets under false papers and fake names and a proud but junior member of a powerful starship-owning family leads to a record-breaking race to Downbelow Station&#8211;and a terrifying showdown at a ...<\/div><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/book-review-exquisite-corpse-by-poppy-z-brite-horror\/\">Exquisite Corpse, by Poppy Z Brite [horror]<\/a><div class=\"lcp_excerpt\">Title: Exquisite Corpse\nAuthor: Poppy Z. Brite\nGenre: horror, serial killer\nSummary: After escaping prison, serial killer Andrew Compton heads for New Orleans to pursue the art of what he calls &#8220;the art of killing boys.&#8221; He joins up with a dissolute playboy who has pushed his art to limits even Compton hadn&#8217;t imagined. Together they set their ...<\/div><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/review-mpd-psycho\/\">MPD Psycho, by Eiji Otsuka [manga, serial killer]<\/a><div class=\"lcp_excerpt\">Title: MPD Psycho\nAuthor: Eiji Otsuka\nGenre: manga, horror, serial killers\nSummary: In MPD-Psycho Volume 1, police detective Kobayashi Yousuke&#8217;s life is changed forever after a serial killer notices something &#8220;special&#8221; about him. That same killer mutilates Kobayashi&#8217;s wife and kick-starts a &#8220;multiple personality battle&#8221; within Kobayashi that pushes him into a complex tempest of interconnected deviants and ...<\/div><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/goodreads-harper-kingsley-the-united-statess-review-of-plastic-jesus\/\">Plastic Jesus, by Poppy Z. Brite<\/a><div class=\"lcp_excerpt\">Title: Plastic Jesus\nAuthor: Poppy Z. Brite\nGenre: faux-biofic, mm romance\nSummary: The 1960&#8217;s brought Seth and Payton all they&#8217;d fantasized about&#8211;perfect friendships, a successful four-man band, and most importantly, each other. Together they embarked on a tour that brought them stimulating highs and shattering lows, and they prospered and suffered in one another&#8217;s arms. The two men ...<\/div><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/book-review-dressing-up-by-todd-young\/\">Dressing Up, by Todd Young<\/a><div class=\"lcp_excerpt\">Title: Dressing Up\nAuthor: Todd Young (I keep wanting to call him &#8220;Adam Young&#8221;)\nGenre: m\/m romance\/light erotica\nSummary: Skipper has just arrived at college on a football scholarship. The year kicks off with a costume party. Skipper ends up going as Tarzan, in an all too brief costume. At the party he meets Lake, but can Lake ...<\/div><\/li><\/ul><a href=\"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/category\/reviews\/book-reviews\/\">Archive of book reviews<\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Movie and Television Reviews Book Reviews<\/p>\n <a href=\"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/reviews\/\" title=\"Reviews\" class=\"entry-more-link\"><span>Read More<\/span> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Reviews<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"page-nosidebar.php","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"Layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["entry","author-harperkingsley0-0","post-1002","page","type-page","status-publish"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P2pPoL-ga","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":265,"url":"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/reviews\/movie-reviews\/","url_meta":{"origin":1002,"position":0},"title":"Reviews: TV and Movies","author":"Harper Kingsley","date":"January 28, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"On occasion I go a bit crazy about writing TV\/movie reviews, so as they occur I thought I might share the links to my reviews. I'll try to keep everything up to date, but don't kill me if I fall behind. What I watch: action, adventure, biopics, comedy, fantasy, historical,\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":269,"url":"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/reviews\/reviews-books\/","url_meta":{"origin":1002,"position":1},"title":"Reviews: Books","author":"Harper Kingsley","date":"January 28, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"I love to read and I've read a lot over the years. I don't exactly feel comfortable reviewing books I haven't read in a long time, but if you ask me about a book, I could probably give you a \"Hated it\" or a \"Loved it\" and a good reason\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1631,"url":"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/free-reads\/the-panic-pure\/","url_meta":{"origin":1002,"position":2},"title":"THE PANIC PURE, by Harper Kingsley","author":"Harper Kingsley","date":"August 20, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"","rel":"","context":"With 1 comment","block_context":{"text":"With 1 comment","link":"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/free-reads\/the-panic-pure\/#comments"},"img":{"alt_text":"PanicPure","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.harperkingsley.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/PanicPure-200x300.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1225,"url":"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/free-reads\/fdtc\/","url_meta":{"origin":1002,"position":3},"title":"FROM DIAMOND TO COAL, by Sol Crafter","author":"Harper Kingsley","date":"July 19, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Updates Scheduled to Appear*: SCHEDULING WILL RESUME SHORTLY. Apologies for the inconvenience. Other Chapters: To be announced Updates have been scheduled in advanced. If updates do not appear on dates listed and I don't catch it, please let me know through the comments. Thank you. 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This not only confuses all the people checking out my blog, but it also makes it hard for me to figure out what exactly I have happening here -- I admit that I am incredibly disorganized. As\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"ArewaUnbound","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.harperkingsley.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/arewaunbound-e1328605690340-228x300.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":527,"url":"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/free-reads\/dragon-knight\/","url_meta":{"origin":1002,"position":5},"title":"VEDRAN&#8217;S HAND, by Harper Kingsley","author":"Harper Kingsley","date":"March 12, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Title: Vedran's Hand Author: Harper Kingsley Genre: fantasy Rating: Adult Contains: assassinations, duels, non-descriptive m\/f and m\/m. Summary: A duel to the death is to take place between two unbeaten champions. 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