Yes, God, Yes — 1.0 Gavel 94% Rotten Tomatoes
If Netflix’ Cuties is a magnet for pedophiles, will Amazon’s Yes, God, Yes attract those with a Catholic schoolgirl fetish? After promising this…
Month: September 2020
Challenger: The Final Flight – 4.0 Gavels 88% Rotten Tomatoes
For me, at least, Challenger: The Final Flight was not the absolute shock that was the assassination of John F. Kennedy, nor of…
Gordon Lightfoot – 4.0 Gavels 88% Rotten Tomatoes
Which is your favorite disaster song, The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald by Gordon Lightfoot or The New York Mining Disaster 1941 by…
Top of the Lake — 4.0 Gavels 95% Rotten Tomatoes
From The Piano and The Portrait of a Lady to Top of the Lake, Jane Campion, acclaimed writer and director, is a name…
I Am Woman — 3.0 Gavels 66% Rotten Tomatoes
I Am Woman, I am disappointed. Certainly, I am not disappointed in Helen Reddy, nor her music, but rather the Grade B-level treatment…
Enola Holmes — 3.5 Gavels 91% Rotten Tomatoes
As we come to the end of British Period Piece Week, how better to end than on Enola Holmes? Since 2006, Sherlock has…
Thursday Morning Coffee — 9/24/20
Who doesn’t like a good spy movie? Olen Steinhauer writes about spies. In 2015, his NY Times fictional bestseller, All The Old Knives,…
Lark Rise To Candleford — 3.0 Gavels 8.1/10
It is the unfortunate luck of Lark Rise To Candleford that I watched it after Ripper Street. While this ten-part Season One compares…
Ripper Street — 4.5 Gavels 94% Rotten Tomatoes
Jack the Ripper killed and mutilated at least five women, maybe as many as eleven, primarily prostitutes, in the Whitechapel area (not yet…
Garrow’s Law — 4.5 Gavels 8.3/10 IMDB
Following The Crimson Petal and Cranford, here comes Garrow’s Law and British Period Piece Week. For the uninitiated, William Garrow was a famous…