Month: July 2020

  • Review: Damages, season 1

    Review: Damages, season 1

    Damages ran for 5 seasons from 2007 to 2012. I missed it completely at that time, although I heard good things about it. Now it’s available on Hulu, so I started watching.

  • Review: Radioactive

    Review: Radioactive

    Radioactive is the true story of Marie Curie, the discoverer of radium and polonium, winner of two Nobel Prizes, and a pioneering researcher into radioactivity.

  • Review: Margarita – revised after 6 years

    Review: Margarita – revised after 6 years

    Margarita, starring Nicola Correia Damude as the Mexican nanny Margarita, is the Canadian version of A Day Without a Mexican. In the same way that all of California comes to a screeching halt without Mexicans doing the actual business of making life work in A Day Without a Mexican, so Margarita makes life work for…

  • Review: Offering to the Storm (Ofrenda a la tormenta)

    Review: Offering to the Storm (Ofrenda a la tormenta)

    Offering to the Storm (Ofrenda a la tormenta) is the final film in the Baztan Trilogy. The Spanish language thriller stars Marta Etura as Police Inspector Amaia Salazar, who finally learns the deep and evil secrets of her town’s past.

  • Review: Rebecka Martinsson, season 2

    Review: Rebecka Martinsson, season 2

    Rebecka Martinsson, the Swedish prosecutor with a troubled past, is back for a second series with a new actor in the lead role and 8 new episodes of mystery and life above the Arctic Circle.

  • Review: Mnemophrenia

    Review: Mnemophrenia

    Mnemophrenia really is a word, new to me. It’s the title of a sci-fi think piece from writer and director Eirini Konstantinidou. The film explores a psychosis that arises from advanced virtual reality (VR) technology, which causes people to be unable to distinguish between real and artificial memories.

  • Review: Frankie Drake Mysteries, season 1

    Review: Frankie Drake Mysteries, season 1

    Frankie Drake Mysteries features an intrepid woman private detective who sprints around Toronto on a motorcycle amid 1920s jazz and gin. There have been 3 seasons of the series, and it is renewed for a 4th season.

  • Fiddler on the Roof, a gem from 1971

    Fiddler on the Roof, a gem from 1971

    Fiddler on the Roof is available now on Netflix and a couple of other streamers. This 3 hour musical from 1971 is an anachronism because of the subject matter and because of the kind of films that are being made today.

  • Review: Fatal Affair

    Review: Fatal Affair

    Fatal Affair is a thriller currently streaming on Netflix. It stars Nia Long as an attorney who is stalked by a man from her past.

  • Review: Absentia, season 3

    Review: Absentia, season 3

    Absentia, season 3, features danger, endless action, and suspense with the cop who never gives up, Emily Byrne (Stana Katic).