Line of Duty — 4.5 Gavels 8.7/10 IMDb
Rated third in a Radio Times poll of best British crime dramas of all time, Line of Duty lives up to the hype….
Month: December 2020
Thursday Morning Coffee — 12/10/20
Edith Pretty and the Sutton Hoo dig. In Thursday Morning Coffee — 9/12/19, we first learned of the 1937 British excavation that uncovered…
Gangs of London — 4.0 Gavels 91% Rotten Tomatoes
You will be hard-pressed to find a show more complex, intense, and violent than Gangs of London. Why complex? Irish, Blacks, Kurds, Pakistanis,…
Mank — 3.5 Gavels 87% Rotten Tomatoes
Long before Mank admits “sometimes I’m too clever by half,” that was my impression of the film. Despite quality writing and great acting,…
Let It Snow — 3.0 Gavels 5.8/10 IMDb
In our never-ending search for a great Christmas movie, I am sorry to report that Let It Snow doesn’t ring the bell. On…
Folklore — 4.0 Gavels 8.6/10 IMDb
Taylor Swift’s Folklore: The Long Pond Studio Sessions has the same vibe as Bruce Springsteen’s Letter To You. He recorded at Thrill Hill…
Black Beauty — 4.0 Gavels 50% Rotten Tomatoes
Every twenty-five years or so, we get a remake of Black Beauty. And, why not? It remains a children’s classic ever since the…
No Man’s Land — 4.0 Gavels 7.9/10 IMDb
In a series compared to Homeland, No Man’s Land brings to the forefront the YPJ, the all female, mostly-Kurdish, militia units fighting in…
Thursday Morning Coffee — 12/3/20
Feud or Fund? In view of the dearth of movie and TV news, and given that I watch so few commercials, I thought…
Alex Rider — 4.0 Gavels 85% Rotten Tomatoes
While your kids may know Anthony Horowitz from the Alex Rider series, you should recognize this prolific writer from Sherlock Holmes and James…