Captain America

OK, so nothing at all to do with the all-too-fleeting scene of Chris Evans, buffed and shirtless, but I really enjoyed Captain America. Chris plays skinny, asthmatic, but brave and honorable Steve Rogers who’s given a performance-booster-of-a-lifetime and is transformed into a Nazi-bashing superhero. Ta-da. So it felt like a very well made film; consistently…

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Captain America

Chris Evans looking mighty fine (eventually, anyway), as Marvel’s Captain America takes on the Nazis; the cinema audience here cheered as the trailer rolled and you can kind of see why….

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Street Kings

I’m a crime novel junkie. I’ve read every Michael Connelly, every Harlan Coben, every Jeffrey Deaver and every James Lee Burke novel there is. Lee Burke’s main character is Detective Dave Robicheaux of New Iberia Parish in Louisiana, and you can virtually smell the bayou and the grilled crawfish and the pimples of sweat on…

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