Category Archives: reviews

At the Somali Grocery

Posted on October 10, 2012 by susanmsink@gmail.com

Yesterday, on the way back from having my car checked (bad news), I stopped at the Somali grocery to buy a big sack of basmati rice and some tandoori masala spice. There is a large Somali population in St. Cloud. … Continue reading →

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The Good Wife and Privilege

Posted on October 3, 2012 by susanmsink@gmail.com

I’ve written before about The Good Wife and the way it depicts corruption. There’s a current trend of “bad” main characters in dramas. After one season, I couldn’t bring myself to watch Weeds, mostly because the brother character was so … Continue reading →

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With Great Power Comes….?

Posted on July 8, 2012 by susanmsink@gmail.com

Time for the summer blockbusters! I had no desire to see The Amazing Spider-man, satisfied as I was by the Tobey Maguire films that seemed to have finished, what, two years ago?? But because we misread/remembered the movie times, we ended … Continue reading →

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Next: Now Playing Until September 9

Posted on June 3, 2012 by susanmsink@gmail.com

I just got back from a quick trip to Chicago. While there, I seriously lucked out and got to go to Grant Achatz’s restaurant Next for a preview dinner with my brother. My brother is a wine salesman and both a … Continue reading →

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Welcome to the ’60s, Don Draper

Posted on April 23, 2012 by susanmsink@gmail.com

I have to admit it: Mad Men totally has me back. After the first episode this season, I thought I might not watch all the episodes. I enjoyed singing “Zou Bisou Bisou” around the house afterward as much as the … Continue reading →

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Executive Suite

Posted on April 6, 2012 by susanmsink@gmail.com

Everyone should watch the film Executive Suite. I know, it is in black-and-white and was made in 1951. It’s a decade before Mad Men, so the gender politics, believe it or not, are even worse than on that show. The … Continue reading →

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Fact and Fiction

Posted on March 18, 2012 by susanmsink@gmail.com

Today on the NPR radio program This American Life, they devoted an entire hour to a retraction of a story they aired in January about working conditions in Apple factories in China.  It wasn’t that the claims made on the original program were … Continue reading →

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Mildred Pierce (2011) Review, part 1

Posted on March 7, 2012 by susanmsink@gmail.com

We’re finishing up the winter movie viewing season with the HBO miniseries Mildred Pierce starring Kate Winslet. So far we’ve watched disc 1, the first three episodes, with two more to go. But I am spending today on a bus, … Continue reading →

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Is the Dalai Lama a Sellout or Just Really Enlightened?

Posted on February 10, 2012 by susanmsink@gmail.com

One of the documentaries we watched this week was The Sun Behind the Clouds. It chronicles the protests of China’s occupation of Tibet that broke out in 2008 (most noticed here in disruption of the travel of the torch around the world … Continue reading →

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At the Movies

Posted on February 2, 2012 by susanmsink@gmail.com

First, let me give you a rant warning. Or a crank warning. This post is not about movies so much as the further degradation of the movie viewing experience in my town. We are lucky here in St. Joseph to … Continue reading →

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