Tag: Greg Kinnear
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Smoke, a firebug mystery series
Smoke was always interesting. Slow in some places, exciting in others. It was part mystery and part character study. Taron Egerton and Jurnee Smollett starred as an arson investigator and a cop assigned to work with him. This review does not contain major spoilers.
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Black Bird, true story about a serial killer
Black Bird tells the true story of how the FBI used an operative named James Keene (Taron Egerton) to gather incriminating evidence against a serial killer named Larry Hall (played with creepy intensity by Paul Walter Hauser).
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Watch This: Trailer for House of Cards, the final season
I confess, I stopped watching House of Cards when Trump was elected. It was all too much with a real-life horrible man in the White House and a character no better than him at the top of House of Cards.
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Review: Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams
Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams is a science fiction anthology of 10 episodes streaming on Amazon. Instead of reviewing the anthology as a whole the way I normally would a TV season, I’ll briefly discuss each individual episode. Various writers took the short stories of Philip K. Dick and made them into the individual tales…
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Review: Ghost Town
Ghost Town from 2008 is a comedy that slipped past me when it came out. It recently caught my eye on Netflix and I found it good for a lot of laughs.
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Review: The English Teacher
The English Teacher has potential, I think, as I’m thumbing my way through Netflix on a Friday night. Julianne Moore, Greg Kinnear, Nathan Lane. It looks like a romantic comedy that could work on an otherwise long evening. I took a chance. I enjoyed it. I watched it all the way through. It wasn’t so…