Top five movies of the summer
Hello everyone, I hope you had a great summer filled with great movies! In case you missed some over the summer, here are the five best films that came out.…
‘Don’t Breathe’ brings suspense back to horror
Three teenagers have done several small robberies before but aren’t really making enough to make a difference. When they learn that there is an old man who is sitting on…
Lauren in Ireland
Since the time I last wrote about my experiences in Berlin, I have traveled to four more cities in Germany, all over Northern Ireland, Dublin, and Nice, France. And now,with…
‘The Machete Season’ brutally depicts genocide
The book “The Machete Season” by Jean Hatzfeld is an account of not the victims of this genocide, but the perpetrators. The author interviewed a group of men who were…
Remake of ‘The Jungle Book’ brings back beloved childhood memories
Disney makes another foray into its past to bring about an adaption that for once adds to its original work rather than takes, as The Jungle Book manages to be…
‘The Jungle Book’ does original story justice with great cast
Everyone knows about the Jungle Book. This was a movie that I grew up watching as a little kid and it was one of my favorites (the 1967 animated movie).…
‘The Epic of Gilgamesh’ offers unique insight into ancient history
Having been written roughly in 1800 B.C., “The Epic of Gilgamesh” is the oldest surviving piece of literature, at nearly 4000 years old. Written by the Sumerians in the city…
Lauren in Berlin: A city caught between two worlds
Berlin is a shining glass mecca of modern buildings with colorful graffiti carefully applied to any surface paint can get to. Along with the buildings, the people of Berlin even…
The novel ‘Gulag Archipelago’ offers a frightening look at the Soviet Union
“A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.” Not a quote one might expect to be written by a prisoner in…
