Mea Culpa (2024)
A defense attorney and an artist accused of murder have drama in this Tyler Perry film. There are no nuanced lives. There is a useless husband and always something to irritate. There is no witty discussion. The artist can’t be unthreatening. There is the wrong type and no narrative arc. This was not majestic visualised. There are ( Read more... )

The 5TH Vital Sign
A scumbag robs a pharmacy. There are endless unanswered questions. Addiction is highly concerning. The junkie tries for pathos. A terrible fate is visited. The junkie is not in a horrific situation. She just made the ruinous error of not stopping taking drugs. The junkie is a rude spiteful moron, her poor choices madden. I feel ( Read more... )

The Swimmer (1968)

Burt Lancaster shows up in swimtrunks and swims in various peoples swimming pools. He has his trunks, tanlines and not much else. As the movie passes, we learn the awful reality of Ned's (Lancaster) situation. Ned does happy talk as people treat him with bemused toelration and anger, Joan Rivers shows up.

Everything Ned considered ( Read more... )

All Doll'd Up

Barry and Iris are awful people. The doomed Nora whines. Ragdoll debuts. The Wells with the French accent annoys no end. There are meta handcuffs? This show is unwatchable. Snow looks for her father. Barry and Iris are terrible parents.

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Things To Do In Seattle When You're Dead

This got a 3rd season? Macy has sex dreams about Harry. ( Read more... )

Crisis On Infinite Earths: Hour Four

Nobody talks like an actual person. Where are the toilets in the vanishing point? They must reek! Katie Cassidy, Jon Cryer and Tyler Hoechlin guest star. The crisis is an injustice of unbearable propotions. There are bleak conditions. It's been months? Nobody has grown a beard. There is no appalling urgency. What ( Read more... )

‘Death Game’ (1977) trailer
A sleaze has a hot-tube threesome with Colleen Camp and Sondra Locke. They gurn and smash up his house. This looks gross.

‘Ten Days In The Valley’ trailer
A woman’s daughter vanishes. What happened? A cop and her ex are angry. There are lies. Fiction and reality merge. No.

Best Line:
“4? AM?”

‘Perdida’ trailer
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La Strega
A git named Vito (Rob Morrow of ‘Quiz Show’, ‘Last Dance’, ‘Northern Exposure’, ‘Street Time’ and ‘Numb3rs’) wants to kill Lia (Linda Blair of ‘The Exorcist’, ‘Airport 1975’, ‘Summer of Fear’, ‘Hell Night’, ‘Repossessed’, ‘Calendar Girl’ and ‘Scream’). Vito is sure Lia is an evil witch who cursed his mother. Lia ties him up on her sofa and ( Read more... )

‘Doctor Who’ 8x04 promo
Looks creepy!

‘The 100’ 1x10 promo
Looks good.

‘The Leftovers’ promo
Good.

‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ post-credits scene
Howard The Duck?!? I have seen the 80s movie, I will say no more.

‘Se7en’ clip
The cops have John Doe in the middle of nowhere and stumble over a dead dog prompting John Doe to deadpan “I didn’t do that” in ( Read more... )

Con Job
A convict (Fisher Stevens of ‘Early Edition’) from an earlier episode is brought in to ‘help’ with a heist because the FBI are morons. The con is smug, Don chomps gum and looks bored. Charlie and Amita have to be the shining stars who make the FBI look dumb. A bad guy who seems to be on black tar heroin bores. This was offensively stupid ( Read more... )