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Ghost Town (2008)
Ghost Town (2008)
2008 | Comedy, Documentary, Sci-Fi
6
6.4 (10 Ratings)
Movie Rating
By and large, I'm not that big a fan of Ricky Gervais - that type of humour just doesn't do it for me.

I have to say, though, he is perfectly cast here as an misanthropic Englishman in New York, who finds - after a medical procedure gone wrong - that he can see and communicate with dead people, all of whom have a favour to ask.

In particular, Greg Kinnear's cheating husband who is trying to break up his widow's (Tea Leoni) new romance.

Predictable hi-jinks ensue along a predictable well-worn path, until Gervais' dentist Dr Bertram Pincus learns the error of his ways and how life is meant to be lived.
  
On a whim, Trixie picks up an idol so ugly it's cute. However, when people start following the Bob-Whites and their friends around New York City, she begins to wonder what she's stumbled into. I like the mystery in this book, and the characters are wonderful. However, there is a prophecy that forms a backbone to the plot, and that has always bugged me.

Read my full review at <a href="http://carstairsconsiders.blogspot.com/2013/04/book-review-mystery-of-blinking-eye-by.html">Carstairs Considers</a>.
  
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Revenge of the Gypsy Queen
Kris Neri | 2003
8
8.0 (1 Ratings)
Book Rating
When mystery author Tracey Eaton heads to New York for her sister-in-law's wedding, she finally gets her first real life mystery. The bride has vanished and the family wants to cover it up. Why? This is my third time through the book, and I enjoy it each time. Still have a couple of small issues with the ending, but they are minor.

Read my full review at <a href="http://carstairsconsiders.blogspot.com/2013/05/book-review-revenge-of-gypsy-queen-by.html">Carstairs Considers</a>.