Taxi Driver (film)
Taxi Driver is a 1976 film starring Robert DeNiro, Jodie Foster, Harvey Keitel, and Cybill Shepherd. 2 out of 10 stars. I don’t get the hype over this film at all. It was pretty dumb and boring. Travis Bickle (Robert … Continued
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Taxi Driver is a 1976 film starring Robert DeNiro, Jodie Foster, Harvey Keitel, and Cybill Shepherd. 2 out of 10 stars. I don’t get the hype over this film at all. It was pretty dumb and boring. Travis Bickle (Robert … Continued
Atlanta’s Missing and Murdered: The Lost Children is a 5 part HBO documentary series. 4 out of 10 stars. This isn’t exactly riveting and much information is left out. What information is included is often very vague, so you don’t … Continued
Until the Night is the sixth novel in Giles Blunt’s Detective John Cardinal series. 4 out of 10 stars. When Giles Blunt began the John Cardinal series, I truly enjoyed his writing. But rather quickly he turned to really deviant, … Continued
Cardinal is a Canadian series by Giles Blunt taken from his series of John Cardinal murder mysteries. It’s in its fourth and last season. 8 out of 10 stars. So far it’s better than the previous three seasons. There’s no … Continued
Sergio is a 2020 film on the life of Sergio Vieira de Mello, a Brazilian diplomat who became a High Commissioner to the United Nations. 6 out of 10 stars. This film focuses way too much on the relationship between … Continued
Waco is a 2018 series on the siege of the Branch Davidian complex that took place in 1993. 8 out of 10 stars. Parts of it are well done. Other parts are not factually correct, namely the beginning which briefly … Continued
The Staircase is a 2004 series about the trial of Michael Peterson in the death of his wife Kathleen in Durham, North Carolina. 8 out of 10 stars. This story is gripping, but way too long. There are 13 hour-long … Continued
The Legacy of the Bones is a 2019 Spanish film. 6 out of 10 stars. There are English subtitles, but no English dubbing. The plot is somewhat convoluted, but intriguing. The acting is superb. The scenery breathtaking. Detective Amaia Salazar … Continued
The Marriage Lottery #16 The Singer by Caty Callahan is a sweet romance set in a post-apocalyptic future where a virus has decimated the population and men outnumber women about a dozen to one. 10 out of 10 stars. I … Continued
War of the Worlds is a 2019 French series being released on EPIX. 4 out of 10 stars. It’s not the best series. It’s not the worst. There are good parts, bad parts. EPIX channel’s handling of the release was … Continued
How to Fix a Drug Scandal is a 2020 Netflix original series on the 50,000+ drug tests that were faked in two Massachusetts state drug labs by Annie Dookhan and Sonja Farak. 10 out of 10 stars. This is the … Continued
Road to Perdition is a 2002 crime drama set in 1930s Boston and starring Tom Hanks, Paul Newman, Daniel Craig, Jude Law, and Tyler Hoechlin. 10 out of 10 stars. This is one of my favorite films and was just … Continued
Minority Report is a 2002 futuristic crime drama starring Tom Cruise, Colin Farrell, Max von Sydow, and Kathryn Morris. 10 out of 10 stars. This was just released on Netflix in HD this week. Watch it. John Anderton works for … Continued
Red Lights is a 2012 supernatural film. 8 out of 10 stars. This has an all star cast with Sigourney Weaver, Cillian Murphy. Elizabeth Olsen, and Robert DeNiro. Dr. Margaret Matheson and her assistant Tom Buckley specialize in debunking psychics. … Continued
Sweetheart is a 2019 horror film that’s pretty good. 8 out of 10 stars. This starts out slowly but ends with a bang. And you’ll never listen to a guy condescendingly call his girlfriend Sweetheart the same way again. Jenn … Continued
The Stranger is a 2020 British series about a young woman going around revealing everyone’s well-kept secrets, taken from a Harlan Coban novel of the same name. 8 out of 10 stars. It wasn’t the best television but it kept … Continued
The Assignment is a 2016 movie about a hit man who wakes up with an unwanted sex change. 4 out of 10 stars. I’m a huge Sigourney Weaver fan, but she often picks eclectic roles. This is one of them. … Continued
Fearless is a 2017 British crime series. 4 out of 10 stars. This started out well but devolved into so many red herrings and so much futility. It was really hard to finish, especially since the man she’s trying to … Continued
The Valhalla Murders is a 2019 Netflix series that takes place in Iceland. It’s a murder mystery with a ton of plot holes and some seriously bad writing. 0 out of 10 stars. If I could give this a negative … Continued
Polaroid is a 2019 horror film. 8 out of 10 stars. It starts out slowly but gathers speed after the first half hour. It is scary and the plot is very original. In the first few minutes a young girl … Continued