Charlie's Angels: Season 1
Starring: Kate Jackson, Farrah Fawcett, Jaclyn Smith
Studio: Mill Creek Entertainment
Release Date: January 28, 2014
Retail: $9.98
Running Time: 1181 minutes
Rating: Not Rated

Review:

Arriving on DVD today from Mill Creek Entertainment is Charlie's Angels:Season One starring Kate Jackson, Farrah Fawcett and Jaclyn Smith as the three original angels.

The series ran from 1976-1981 with a total of 110, but has been in syndication ever since. It was remade into feature films in the early 2000s starring Drew Barrymore, Cameron Diaz and Lucy Liu. ABC remade the series in 2011 to horrible reviews and was canceled after four episodes.

The original Charlie's Angels didn't exactly get a warm welcoming from critics, but it became popular with viewers. The series follows Sabrina Duncan (played by Kate Jackson), Kelly Garrett (played by Jaclyn Smith) and Jill Munroe (played the late Farrah Fawcett), all of whom have recently graduated police academy, but this is the 70s and they're basically stuck on desk duty that is until Charlie enters their lives.

Sabrina, Kelly and Jill leave the police force to work at the Charles Townsend Agency as private investigators. Though Charlie's voice is only heard through a speaker phone, John Bosley is the one who assigns them the cases.


The episodes on the 4-disc set are:

I guess you can say I was an anti-cell phone person until I received a prepaid cell phone for Christmas in 2012. I've never cared much for talking on a phone, but a cell phone does come in handy when there is an emergency or you need to ask someone a quick question. I even find myself texting more often than I do calling someone.

When I first activated my cell phone, I was instantly given a phone number, which of course the first three numbers were my area code. I'm more than fine by having an area code as my cell number, but there some people, especially those who travel, who don't want an area code attached to their number.

Businessman and women, lawyers, agents, etc, have to travel around the world all year long, but there are times when they have to be at a business meeting on the other side of the country. There is no such thing as a Superman or Supergirl, so you can't just fly there in a minute, but instead you  can use your cell phone, iPad or Tablet to virtually attend the meeting.

When doing this, you'll need a virtual phone number!

Advantages of a business virtual phone number are:

• Save Money On Your Phone Account
• Establish a Virtual Office Anywhere Around the World
• Quickly Manage Incoming Business Calls
• Phone Calls Will Be Forward To Wherever You Are Currently Located.

At the end of every year, I'm sure many people hope for the best for the new year, well at least I do, but it seems no matter what plans or hopes you have, something always goes wrong. Between a broken tooth, the flu bug and sewer drain problems, the year 2014 is on a rocky start. Despite a few setbacks, I have been able to exercise daily since December 26th, then I started the new P90X 3 workout program on the 31st. I'll be starting Phase 2 tomorrow.

I've been reading up a storm this month, well I'm partly attempting to read a few books from my TBR pile, but mostly I'm reading books sent to me to review. I read Flowers in the Attic by V.C. Andrews, which is the second time I have read the novel. Of course, I watched the Lifetime's remake, which I thought was better than the 1987's version, but it felt too much like a made-for-TV movie (otherwise silly). I just finished reading The Unwelcomed Child by V.C. Andrews (well the ghostwriter) and I'm planning on writing the review today.

Last year, I went through my large collection of books and I donate several boxes and bags full of paperbacks and hardbacks to the Salvation Army. You would think I would have more room, but since then I have either received more books to review or have picked up a few books from the thrift stores, though I don't buy as many as I use to.

My most recent thrift store buys are:

The Fifth Estate
Director: Bill Condon
Starring: Benedict Cumberbatch, Daniel Bruhl, Stanley Tucci, Laura Linney
Studio: DreamWorks Pictures/Touchstone Home Entertainment
Release Date: January 28th, 2014
Retail: $39.99
Running Time: 128 minutes
Rating: R

Review:

Arriving on Blu-ray and DVD on Tuesday, January 28, 2014 is the true story about the WikiLeaks scandal, titled The Fifth Estate, starring Benedict Cumberbatch as the WikiLeaks' rebel leader. Co-starring in this high-tech thriller is Daniel Bruhl, Stanley Tucci and Laura Linney. Bonus Features include The Submission Platform - Enter the room where the secrets are kept and see it come to life, from first inspiration, through filming and beyond; In-Camera Graphics - Watch electronic words move off the screen and into the real world; Scoring Secrets - Experience the full range of musical styles in composer Carter Burwell's thrilling soundscape for the movie; and Trailers and TV Spots.

I'm almost positive everyone has heard about the WikiLeaks scandal on the news in 2010, which the topic is still discussed today in newspapers, magazines and blogs. Since then, there have been several books published on it and there has been one Hollywood feature film The 5th Estate was quietly released to theaters last October. The film is based on two books, Inside WikiLeaks: My Time with Julian Assange and the World's Most Dangerous Website by Daniel Domscheit-Berg and WikiLeaks: Inside Julian Assange's War on Secrecy by David Leigh and Luke Harding.

I only saw the movie advertise on television a couple of times and the only the thing that looked remotely interesting about it was the fact Benedict Cumberbatch from Sherlock Holmes and Star Trek Into Darkness was starring it as the WikiLeaks' founder Julian Assange. I had completely forgotten about the film until I had a chance to review an early copy of the Blu-ray Combo Pack.

The Headmistress of Rosemere
Whispers On The Moors, Book Two
By Sarah E. Ladd
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date: December 31, 2013
ISBN: 978-1401688363
Pages: 320
Buy Link: http://ow.ly/sgVC4
Blog Tour: http://litfusegroup.com/author/sladd
 
Review:

Yes, I'm a guy who likes to read romance novels, mostly in the historical western genre, anything on Amish and a few Harlequin thrillers. I don't read much of the Victorian type books, but I did read The Heiress of Winterwood by Sarah Ladd last year and I did enjoyed reading, which is one of the reasons why I signed up to review its sequel.

The Headmistress of Rosemere is set in Darbury, England in the early 1800s and centers on twenty-five-year-old Patience Creighton, whom finds herself as the headmistress of Rosemere School for Young Ladies. She grew up living at the school her family ran and after her father's death, she steps up to run the school. Neither her mother, who is suffering from depression and her brother, whom headed off to London to settle a few "family affairs" six-months ago, can handle the responsbility of running Rosemere, therefore everything lies on Patience's shoulders.

Rosemere doesn't exactly belong to Patience's family. It, along with the surrounding land, actually belongs to the Sterling family. Over the years the Sterling family have been wonderful landlords, but William Sterling is not like his father or grandfather. He has been going through somewhat of a rough patch, mostly gambling. He owns a hefty sum to creditors and is assaulted by the creditor's henchmen while returning home from a local tavern. Wounded with no other choice, he ends up at the doorsteps of the Rosemere School.

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Do you think you will ever read every book in your TBR stack? 

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Well, I hope I can one day read all my TBR books. I have several books by James Patterson, R.L. Stine and V.C. Andrews to read.

I'm sure many of you are movie lovers and you probably own a large collection of DVDs and Blu-rays. And if you are like me, then you have probably converted your old VHS tapes (family home videos and programs recorded from television) onto DVDs. Then you mostly likely ditched your VCR, but this can become a problem, as you can't make a backup DVD or make a copy for a family member or friend.

There are many softwares on the market that can help you make a backup DVD, but look out for a few freeware that contains malwares. I recommend using a professional software, such as DVDFab!

DVDFab has been around for over eleven years and is considered to be the best DVD copy software on the market today. The DVDFab Copy Software allows you to copy any video file or DVD onto a blank disc. Or you have the option to move the video files to another file on your computer or copy the DVD to an ISO file.