MPL Buzz – Our Staff Blog

• Mike’s Movie Minute: Captain Marvel May 23, 2019
  Captain Marvel comes to DVD on June 11th, 2019 So it’s finally here, the Marvel film that caused so much controversy, and it’s…fine? Reports of “wooden” acting from Brie Larson have been greatly exaggerated. In fact, she does about as well as the best actress could with what she was given, which I don’t think […]
• DVDs Coming in June May 16, 2019
  The Beach Bum Captain Marvel Captive State Five Feet Apart Hotel Mumbai  Orange is the New Black: Season 6 Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan: Season 1 Tyler Perry’s A Madea Family Funeral Us Wonder Park
• New Fiction Coming in June May 15, 2019
  Kate Atkinson — Big Sky Rita Mae Brown—Whiskers in the Dark Jenny Colgan—The Bookshop on the Shore Clive Cussler—The Oracle Jane Green—The Friends We Keep Elin Hilderbrand—The Summer of ‘69 Lisa Jackson—Paranoid Susan Mallery—The Summer of Sunshine and Margot Mary Alice Monroe—The Summer Guests James Patterson—Unsolved Jill Shalvis—The Lemon Sisters Danielle Steel—Lost and Found Brad […]
• Number One Chinese Restaurant May 8, 2019
  Lillian Li’s Number One Chinese Restaurant is ambitious first novel that explores the hidden lives of the people who work at the Beijing Ducks House. Themes of family, ambition, and love are present throughout the story which follows this restaurant family through disaster. This tests and reveals the strength of the characters’ relationships with each other […]