Music Review: (no stars) Maria Mena: White Turns Blue

Maria Mena: White Turns Blue

I guess you can call this whatever you want.  I call it trash.  Somethings you don't sing about.  I will be honest, I didn’t get through the first song.  I hope the other songs weren’t more of the same, but this song was bad in terms of sexual innuendo so it was enough for me to turn it off.  Don’t check this one out or buy it. 

Book Review: The Third Door by: Emily Rodda

The Third Door by: Emily Rodda, Scholastic Press, New York, 2012.  This is the third and final book in this trilogy.  This book has some fantastic adventures, and finally reveals the entire story of the doors and what we have seen through each door.  It does not conclude how I thought it would conclude.  In fact the island of Dorne is in greater danger and I thought possible.  It is only in the use of the power of the magical candy that Rye is able to influence the people to see what they are doing before it is done.  It also reveals that Rye is not the only one with magical powers.  We are also told the relationship between this world and Deltora of Rodda's earlier books.  If you like juvenile fiction with lots of adventure and new worlds, then this is a great book.

Movie Review: **^Domino Kid (1957)

This is a post Civil War movie.  Domino (Rorie Calhoun) returns home form the war to find his father murdered, and his father's cattle stolen.  He then goes on a person vendetta to get even for his father and to get the five men who killed his father.  Four of the men are identified by a witness.  The fourth however is not.  Domino goes about killing each of the men in a gun battle.  It turns out self defense in each instance as the play on Domino knowing he is coming for them.  When he gets the fourth man, he is wounded, so returns home to recuperate where he meets his old girt.  Now there is a second suitor.  One who feels Domino is no good for the town and wants to run him out.  IN the mean time the fifth murderer makes his play on Domino, and in the gun battle against he an his men, the feud in town is resolved as they battle together.

Movie Review: ***The Doolins of Oklahoma (1949)

Bill Doolin (Randolph Scott) is a notorious outlaw and leader of the Doolin gang.  When the law gets close he decides to disband for three months.  The members of the gang are to lie low.  He himself buys a ranch with money from a bank robbery,  and courts a young woman (Virginia Huston), falls in love and marries.  He now regrets the life he chose, that of being an outlaw.  When his men come to get hm three months later, his identity is revealed to the family of his new bride.  He realizes he doesn't want to subject her to a life on the run and returns to the gang.  Several months later, when the law is close he flees to the ranch he bought, and his wife is still waiting.  They have a chance if they can get to a land where the law hasn't reached yet; they could start over as farmers.  However the law is close, and he realized he cannot subject his wife to a life on the run, so the split up.  The lawman provides a narration, which is sort of corny with its moralistic tone.  The overall theme is crime doens't pay, and you can't change who you are.

Book Review: The Silver Door by: Emily Rodda

The Silver Door by: Emily Rodda, Scholastic, New York, 2012.
This is the second of three books in the door series.  I am enjoying them immensely as three brothers and their friend Sonia are intent on saving their people.  The skimmers, birds of terror are killing the people, and only traveling through the door might there be an answer.  It seems every time they get closer to solving something, they get more in trouble.  In this book they are taken captive and Rye is separated from his magic charms.  In this book he discovers a shell power which protects he and those touching in a chain.  He also discovers a magic key.  Will it be enough?

Music Review: Entertainment Weekly: The Greatest Hits: 1987

This is an anthology of the best songs of 1987.  Granted I am a "fuddy duddy" but some of this music does register with me.  What does strike a chord of please are: “The One I love” by REM.  There is a great guitar line and the lyrics are nice.  Grateful Dead does “Touch of Grey.”  This too has a very pleasant feel.  There is the Amway Convention anthem, “Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us Now.”  This brings back memories of many an Amway convention, and you can see why.  It gets your blood rolling.  “Shake You Down” by Gregory Abbott is also very nice.  The back-up vocals really make this song. “I can give you all the love that you need.”  It sounds cool.

Mormon Movie Review: ****The Cokeville Miracle

This is a T.C. Christensen movie, and tells the true story of the Cokeville terrorist attack which took place in May 1986.  The movie is well done for the most part.  There was on line which I thought was odd or out of place, or given with the wrong attitude which is by the police officer when he heard of the hostage situation.
The story is that a former police officer, David Young and his wife, take the rural school of Cokeville, Wyoming hostage and demand a ransom of $2,000,000 per child.  The bomb explodes prematurely, but all of the children and their teachers escape.  Most have burns and other injuries, but it was deemed miraculous that not more died.  Only the hostage takes perished, Young by his own self inflicted bullet.  His wife was severely injured by the blast and he shot her as well before killing himself.
The movie continues after the blast, with the local police officer, who had given up on God, restoring his faith through the stories of the children, as well as attending church and observing the faith of the Children as they sing "Child's Prayer."
The ending of this movie is very well done as it shows the restoration of a family through faith.  I highly recommend this movie.  It has many familiar LDS actors throughout.