Station Eleven — 3.5 Gavels 100% Rotten Tomatoes
After three episodes of Station Eleven, I am more convinced than ever that Hollywood is incapable of telling a story in a linear…
Month: December 2021
The Christmas Edition — 1.0 Gavel 6.1/10 IMDb
Loyal readers should be asking “why am I getting The Christmas Edition instead of West Side Story, Being the Ricardos, and Spider-Man: No…
For Auld Lang Syne –4.0 Gavels
The official title is Snoopy Presents For Auld Lang Syne. It’s only that because the unofficial title is a “mouthful.” This one is…
The Looming Tower 4.5 Gavels 88% Rotten Tomatoes
Few series are as good as Chernobyl, and fewer still will rile you up like The Looming Tower. Based on the 2006 Pulitzer…
The Unforgivable — 3.5 Gavels 40% Rotten Tomatoes
Our friends at Rotten Tomatoes call The Unforgiveable a “contrived and unrelentingly grim story.” Yet, what they call unrelentingly grim is the director’s…
Love and Monsters – 3.5 Gavels 94% Rotten Tomatoes
In Love and Monsters, we find yet another ill-equipped backpacker venturing out into hostile territory. In Dark Divide, Robert Pyle set out to…
The Dark Divide — 3.0 Gavels 93% Rotten Tomatoes
Enlightening, but not really entertaining, describes The Dark Divide. The film is a cross between Wild (Reese Witherspoon) and Land ((Robin Wright) without…
Shaun the Sheep: The Flight Before Christmas — 4.0 Gavels 7.6/10 IMDb
Twas the night before Christmas and what should appear but Shaun the Sheep Christmas. Hot on the heels of Robin Robin, Netflix bring…
Landscapers — 4.0 Gavels 100% Rotten Tomatoes
Landscapers is a name befitting a couple killing her elderly parents and burying them in the garden. Immediately, the audience learns Susan and…
And Just Like That . . . — 3.0 Gavels 64% Rotten Tomatoes
And Just Like That . . . we have a revival of Sex and the City. Before HBO received 59 Emmy nominations for…