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Disorder in the Court: Great Fractured Moments in Courtroom History by Charles M. Sevilla

 reviewed by Carmen Ferreiro-Esteban For some reason that totally escape me some people don't like to read. Maybe they think reading is too much work or that books are boring. Especially those labeled "nonfiction", especially those about the legal system.If you are one of those people, you may have missed the book from which I'm sharing some excerpts with you today. Its name is Disorder in the Court: Great Fractured Moments in Courtroom History, and [...]

2018-10-30T09:54:19-04:00September 30th, 2011|3 Comments
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The Lying Game / The Ringer

 Reviews by Carmen Ferreiro-EstebanThe concept of twins impersonating one another, so very popular in soap operas, has been around for a long, long time, as far back as the classics it seems, and this season it returns to prime time TV on two new shows: The Lying Game (ABC Fam, Mondays at 8/7c) and Ringer (CW57, Tuesdays 9/8c).I started watching The Lying Game some weeks back and got hooked. It's a light fantasy [...]

2018-10-30T09:54:28-04:00September 16th, 2011|1 Comment
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The Guard

 directed by John Michael McDonaghreviewed by Carmen Ferreiro-EstebanThe guard of the title is Sergeant Gerry Boyle (Brendan Gleeson) of the Galway Garda in Western Ireland. Garda means policeman in Irish, so the movie should, actually, be called The Cop, and, in a way, The Guard is a cop movie. But one you have not seen before.The story starts with Sergeant Boyle getting to the scene of a car crash and helping himself to [...]

2018-10-30T09:54:31-04:00September 9th, 2011|3 Comments
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