Noble — 4.0 Gavels 82% Rotten Tomatoes
My version of Never Have I Ever . . . is seeing a movie shot in Ho Chi Minh City . . ….
Month: May 2020
Jerry Seinfeld: 23 Hours to Kill 4.0 Gavels
Discovery: Jerry Seinfeld: 23 Hours to Kill features a very likable character, to wit: Jerry Seinfeld. HBO’s Succession has many more characters, but…
The Stranger — 4.0 Gavels 83% Rotten Tomatoes
The “big” movie offerings this week on Netflix are Hangman and Sleepless. Despite Al Pacino, Hangman “dangles” a 5% Rotten Tomato rating with…
The Half of It — 3.5 Gavels 95% Rotten Tomatoes
“Love is messy” . . . especially if you are 17 and live in fictional Squahamish, Washington. Certainly, Alice Wu, writer and director…
Trying — 4.0 Gavels 100% Rotten Tomatoes
A TV series about infertility and the adoption process does not seem to be a fertile area for comedy, except maybe dark comedy….
Mansfield Park –3.5 Gavels 77% Rotten Tomatoes
On my drive to picturesque Mansfield Park, I first stopped by Freud on Netflix. My id, my ego, and my super-ego all told…
Upload — 3.5 Gavels 81% Rotten Tomatoes
Creative, sweet, poignant, and cruel all describe Upload on Amazon Prime. Add in some satire, a murder mystery, and a love story and…
Belgravia — 4.0 Gavels 72% Rotten Tomatoes
When AppleTV+ offered me Julian Fellowes and Belgravia, resistance was impossible. But “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum” ….
Hollywood — 3.0 Gavels 59% Rotten Tomatoes
Hollywood is misdirection. Billed as “aspiring actors and filmmakers in post-World War II Hollywood attempting to make it in Tinseltown — no matter the…
Dangerous Lies — 2.5 Gavels 60% Rotten Tomatoes
Dangerous Lies is further proof that it is dangerous to rely upon either Netflix or Amazon to produce quality films. Along with Extraction…