Month: June 2024
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Hit Man review, love and murder under cover
Hit Man is a combo police story, comedy, romance. The two main characters are terrific. The movie is fun and funny and a little bit cheesy. I completely enjoyed it.
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Trigger Warning review, Jessica Alba is a one woman army
Trigger Warning with Jessica Alba is a fair to middling action drama. Jessica Alba plays a trained fighter who goes home for her father’s funeral. She takes on a whole array of bad guys in her home town by seeking vengeance for her father’s death.
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Orphan Black: Echoes, thoughts on the Pilot episode
Orphan Black: Echoes is releasing an episode a week in the U.S. As of now, all I’ve seen is the Pilot episode. The series is airing on AMC+ and has 10 episodes. As a big fan of the original Orphan Black series, I definitely am curious about this one and will be watching. There are…
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Harry Wild, season 3 review, more of a good thing
Harry Wild, season 3, continues the journey of our newly minted private investigators Harry Wild (Jane Seymour) and Fergus Reid (Rohan Nedd) as they work their way through more new crimes. Things changed up a little in this season, but mainly they stick to their successful formula for telling this story.
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Our Almost Completely True Story review
Our Almost Completely True Story – originally titled Our (Almost Completely) True Love Story – stars a gaggle of Hollywood elders (#EldersRock) in a sweet story about finding love late in life.
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A rant about aliens and the movie Prometheus
Did you know there’s an entire television channel that plays nothing all day long but pseudo-scientific conspiracy theory shows about how aliens did everything? Aliens built all the cool stuff like the pyramids. Aliens seeded the human race with their own DNA and then left.
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Tipline Mysteries: Dial 1 for Murder review
Tipline Mysteries: Dial 1 for Murder seems to be the first in a new Hallmark Channel series of mysteries. I can’t find anything definitive about that, but it fits the pattern with Hallmark mysteries.
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Short Bits about Miley Cyrus, Hannah Einbinder, and Sue Bird
Short Bits bring the dross out of my head regarding a few things I’ve watched recently that don’t need or merit a full-on review. That includes today’s topics with Miley Cyrus talking to David Letterman, Hannah Einbinder’s stand up special, and a documentary about Sue Bird.
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The Great Lillian Hall with a great Jessica Lange
The Great Lillian Hall looks at a famous Broadway actress as she faces the fading health that will mean the end of her long career. Jessica Lange plays Lillian Hall and gives her character heart and pain as she moves into the last part of her life and fame. There are some spoilers ahead.
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Bridgerton season 3 review
Bridgerton, season 3, continues the story of the Bridgerton family, the high society world they moved in, and brings the mysterious Lady Whistledown out into the open. This series is an endless Regency period soap opera. I can’t stop watching it and reviewing it.