Amazon Prime members have free viewing access to the thousands of Instant Videos included in Amazon’s Prime Instant Video library, but finding the best of the best in such a huge catalog of selections can be a challenge. We try to help out here on KF on KND with our recurring Prime Screening Room feature, and now Amazon … Read more
Here in the Prime Screening Room, I highlight Amazon Prime Instant Videos that are not only free for Prime members to watch, but definitely worth the cost of the rental for everyone else as well. Today’s pick: the pitch-black comedy Election (R, 4/5 stars average Amazon review rating, currently priced at $2.99 to rent and … Read more
I love movies and I love music too, so every film I see has two opportunities to win me over: with the movie, and with the sountrack. Here are some of my favorite soundtracks, old and new. These are albums I listen to over and over again, in some cases long after any memory of … Read more
Here in the Prime Screening Room, I highlight Amazon Prime Instant Videos that are not only free for Prime members to watch, but well worth the time spent viewing them. Today’s pick: Vanilla Sky (R, 3.5/5 stars average Amazon review rating, currently priced at $2.99 to rent and $9.99 to buy, and currently FREE for … Read more
I got the Audible audiobook edition of Robert Harris’ Imperium years ago, and enjoyed it thoroughly. I was recently surprised to learn it’s the first volume in a planned Novels of Ancient Rome trilogy, with the second volume, Conspirata, having been released in 2011. The third volume has not yet been published. In these novels, … Read more
This story’s flying a bit under the radar, as Amazon hasn’t even made an official announcement, but they’ve released an Instant Video Finder tool in beta. You may be wondering what’s so great (or even necessary) about this, since you can already browse by category in the Instant Video store or use the categorized, sortable … Read more
I have been playing Call of Atlantis Premium (4.5/5 average Amazon review rating, all ages, currently priced at $4.99) for days, and I can’t seem to stop! Call of Atlantis Premium is one of those symbol-matching games, where you must make matches of at least three of the same symbol in a vertical or horizontal row … Read more
I’m a fan of Anne Rice, but after reading the first three books in her Vampire Chronicles series I was a little vampire-d out. Still, I’m a HUGE fan of historical fiction as well and when, some years later, I came across the Audible audiobook edition of her Cry To Heaven (4.5/5 stars average Amazon … Read more