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Synopsis: While Perry Mason and Della Street are out for lunch, Adelle Hastings came into the office seeking an appointment but left after a few minutes and didn't return. Soon after, her purse is found in the outer office and inside is a gun that has been fired. A phone call from an opposing attorney alerts Mason to the fact Hastings was looking for someone to represent her in a divorce settlement. However, when he and Della travel to Vegas in search of their client, she claims she wasn't the woman who came to visit them. As Mason correctly suspects, Hastings' soon-to-be-ex-husband is later found murdered, and all evidence points to her. Review: The Case of the Daring Divorcee wasn't available at my library when I was reading the Perry Mason series in order, so I wound up skipping it. Once the other books were read, however, I decided to try to locate it, and my library was finally able to acquire a copy from another library. I finished reading it and it was worth th...

Synopsis: As a child, Ellen made a pledge to a mysterious creature in exchange for ending her loneliness, leaving her broken and "soiled" until she falls in love with and marries Thomas Hutter. Soon after their wedding, Thomas is given the task of traveling to Transylvania to complete a real estate transaction with Count Orlok. He accepts despite Ellen's pleas not to and soon discovers Orlok is both a vampire and the creature Ellen made her pledge to years earlier, a pledge Orlok does not intend to let Ellen break. Who's in it? The movie stars Lily-Rose Depp ,  Bill Skarsgård , Nicholas Hoult , Willem Dafoe and Emma Corrin .  Review: While I'm a big fan of the original silent film version of Nosferatu , I had some doubts about this remake when it came out in December. As a result, I decided not to see it in the theater and instead waited until I could watch it at home. My wife and I did that last night, and it turns out I enjoyed the movie a lot more than expec...

Synopsis: The Doctor ( Ncuti Gatwa ) and Ruby ( Millie Gibson ) travel to 1960s London to watch the Beatles record together for the first time. However, they instead discover a world that has lost its taste for music and one of the Toymaker's minions, Maestro ( Jinkx Monsoon ) is behind it.  If Maestro isn't stopped, humans will destroy themselves in nuclear war but the Doctor, still traumatized from the events of The Giggle , doesn't believe he can stop Maestro. Review: My wife spent most of yesterday evening working on an outfit she designed/is sewing so instead of watching a movie, we ended up watching another Doctor Who episode, The Devil's Chord. Overall, I think can say I liked this one. Maestro is an intriguing character though, much like some others from the newer episodes, they did remind me a bit of a character from a movie (my first thought was the Red Queen from Alice in Wonderland ). The fact Maestro was one of Toymaker's minions and had similar god-l...