All posts tagged "Review"
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TREASURE – Review
Lena Dunham and Stephen Fry play a daughter and her Holocaust-survivor father, on a trip to his native...
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“Bordertown” Season 3 – TV Review
The first two seasons of the moody Finnish police procedural, “Bordertown” were excellent, featuring one of those troubled,...
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“The Shift” Season 1 TV Series Review
The Danish TV hospital drama “The Shift (originally Dag & Nat)”offers some interesting contrasts with our domestic fare....
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“Deadly Tropics: Season 3” – TV review
Regular readers know I’ve reviewed dozens of streaming TV series from a number of European countries over the...
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“Pagan Peak: Season 3” – TV Review
The German/Austrian crime drama “Pagan Peak” is back for its third and final season, but it is fairly...
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SHORTCOMINGS – Review
We all have shortcomings but in SHORTCOMINGS, all the characters have them in abundance. This funny, smart, modern...
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BAD CITY – Review
The subtitled Japanese crime flick, BAD CITY, delivers the goods on two essential counts – an atypically complex...
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EARTH MAMA – Review
Sundance break-out EARTH MAMA spotlights to struggles of a pregnant Black young woman who is trying to regain...
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OPPENHEIMER – Review
“Now I am become Death, the Destroyer of Worlds” is the famous quote from the Bhagavad Gita that...
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THE ISLAND – Review
To be honest, Michael Jai White headlines a lot of action flicks that many would consider beneath their...
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NIGHT OF THE ASSASSIN – Review
South Korea has been exporting a lot of high-octane action flicks in the past several years. They tend...
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“Makari” Season 2 – TV Series Review
“Makari” Season 2 brings three more cozy light crime dramedies from this Italian TV series. It’s named after...
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“Captain Marleau” Season 4 – TV Series Review
One of the perks of increased time at home for the past few years has been discovering a...
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“Backwoods Crime” – TV Series Review
“Backwoods Crime” is a subtitled series from Austrian TV that is actually ten separately-titled 90-minute movies that originally...
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INDIANA JONES AND THE DIAL OF DESTINY – Review
Indy’s back, in a new chapter that is a throw-back to that original Steven Spielberg RAIDERS OF THE...
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“Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan” Season 4 – TV Series Review
“Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan” Season 4 brings another batch of challenges for the eponymous CIA super-agent who headlined...
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Agatha Christie’s Criminal Games: The 70s – TV Review
Forget whatever you assume about Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot. They don’t matter here. “Agatha Christie’s Criminal Games:...
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“What Pauline Is Not Telling You” – TV miniseries review
It’s harder than usual to decide on a reliable 1 – 4 star rating for this four-part dramatic...
