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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
Girl on the Third Floor is a 2019 horror film. 0 out of 10 stars. This is ghost porn. Never thought I’d be saying that. There’s really no plot other than the sex scenes and bizarre hammering the wall scenes. … Continued
Breaking Bad is a series that began in 2008 and ran for five seasons on AMC. 10 out of 10 stars. This is actually a very entertaining series well-acted and cleverly plotted. Walt White is a high school chemistry teacher … Continued
The Disappearance of Alice Creed is a low budget 2010 film. 7 out of 10 stars. For a film that takes place almost entirely in two rooms with only three actors, it’s pretty good. A better than average kidnapping flick, … Continued
The Hunters is a 2020 Amazon series about a group of seven Nazi hunters. 2 out of 10 stars. I’ve actually watched several documentaries on Simon Wiesenthal, the actual Nazi Hunter, and have listened to him speak. He’s a gentle … Continued
Annihilation is a 2018 science fiction horror film taken from the Area X (the Southern Reach trilogy) series of novels by Jeff Vandermeer, a foreign author who lives in the Florida panhandle. 10 out of 10 stars. I wasn’t really … Continued
Arachnophobia is a 1990 film about a deadly giant spider from Venezuela making its way to a small unsuspecting California town. 10 out of 10 stars. This is a great creature feature suitable for the entire family. The film begins … Continued
Why Amazon is No Longer Safe for Kids For the past decade Amazon has been selling adult products under the brand names of kids’ products. My kids were looking for lawn gnomes, a category I thought would be safe, until … Continued
Green Card is a 1990 film about a fake marriage that eventually becomes real. 7 out of 10 stars. It’s hard to find a real romance film these days, so I find myself going back to the older films. This … Continued
The Marriage Lottery #14 The Reluctant Husband by Caty Callahan is a romance set in a future post-apocalyptic world where men greatly outnumber women. If you’ve been on Amazon lately there are about a dozen copycat series in the erotica … Continued
Them That Follow is a 2019 thriller about an Appalachian community who worships snakes. 7 out of 10. There’s a lot of garbage films out there now that Amazon and Netflix are streaming home videos, but this is pretty good. … Continued
White Oleander is a 2002 film adopted from the novel of the same name by Janet Fitch. 8 out of 10 stars. Casting really does make a difference when it comes to films like this. Michelle Pfeiffer and Alison Lohman … Continued
Something Borrowed is both a 2005 novel by Emily Giffin and a 2011 film starring Kate Hudson. 0 out of 10 stars. This has some famous actors in it, but they can only do so much with the writing they … Continued