• APPLE-TV+: SEE. Saw, majorly flawed (but insightful?)…

    Centuries after a virus decimated the world’s population, the few survivors cling together in distant enclaves, trying to survive in a world that has left them alive but blind.  To even speak of the days when people could see is considered heresy and ‘witchfinders’ patrol, often leaving entire camps...
  • Brightburn: Superman’s The Jung and the Restless..?

    Tori Breyer (Elizabeth Banks) and her husband Kyle ( David Denman) are a mid-west couple working their homestead and longing for a child that seems like an impossibility. But one night something crashes into the edges of their land, something that they will tell people was just a falling...
  • ‘The Night Fire’: Bosch and Ballard feel the burn…

    Decades ago, when Harry Bosch was still a rookie detective his mentor was  John Jack Thompson, a man who taught him some of the earliest lessons of his career. Now, years later Thompson has just passed away – but his widow tells Harry she has a ‘murder book’ of...
  • The hook of ‘Eli’ – Netflix bursts a horror bubble…

    Eli (All the Money in the World‘s Charlie Shotwell) dreams of open fields and happy family parties, bu his everyday life is less happy. He’s kept either in a bubbled enclosure, away from the germs and modern day afflictions that might harm him, or wrapped up in a walking...
  • Tapped Out: Fun, but ‘Zombieland’ sequel lacks heart or brains…

    Ten years after  Tallahassee (Woody Harrelson), Columbus (Jesse Eisenbrg), Witchita (Emma Stone) and Little Rock (Abigail Breslin) somehow survived the zombie apocalypse, they’ve continued to make their way through America, cutting down any of the undead that get in their way – sticking to their rules and routines for...
  • Treadstone: Tinkered, tailored, soldier-spies are Bourne again…

    It’s 1973 and in the heart of Berlin an American is being tortured – but it’s not for what he knows,  it is for the actions his captors want him to take. And after days of resistance, it seems they have won as J. Randolph Bentley (played by War...
  • NEW-TV: Derivative ‘Drew’ offers few mysteries…

    Nancy Drew (Kennedy McCann) had it all – she was intelligent enough to show-up the local police’s efforts in finding a missing classmate and eventually became the town of Horseshoe Bay’s own prom-queen.  But the death of her mother changed her life and instead of sailing off to a...
  • ‘El Camino’: The Good, the ‘Bad’ and the extended epilogue… (SPOILERS)

    Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul) is on the run. After escaping the brutal clutches of the White Supremacists who were holding and torturing him into making their Meth, his uneasy and fateful comradeship with ‘mentor’ Walter White (Bryan Cranston) gave him and out and as the police closed in on...
  • Passé Doublé? Smith ² actioner has breadth but no depth…

    Henry Brogan (Will Smith) is one of the government’s top assassins, regularly bringing down bad guys when deniability is needed. He’s a principled guy, but has served his government faithfully. When he announces his retirement after a particularly tricky kill that nearly had collateral damage, all he wants to...
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