Misha and the Wolves is an innovative documentary film about the book by the same name. I’m rarely impressed by a Netflix documentary, and this one was so good that I watched it twice. The book was based upon the experiences of Misha Defonseca as a hidden Jewish child in Belgium during World War Two. […]
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Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings is the newest entry into Marvel Cinematic Universe as phase 4 gets underway. It’s the hefty 2 hour 14-minute origin story of Shang-Chi (Simu Liu), who was originally based on Bruce Lee. The first portion of the film is entirely in Mandarin and is Wenwu’s story over
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The Protégé is the newest in the long line of recent female-led assassin thrillers. Our femme-fatale assassin is Anna (Maggie Q), who is semi-adopted thirty years before our story, when Moody (Samuel L Jackson – when does this dude sleep?), a contract killer, discovers Anna as a child when he attempts to complete a hit.
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Dr. Death is based upon the podcast by the same name and features the horrific neurosurgeon, Christopher Duntsch (Joshua Jackson). Duntsch is purportedly a great surgeon, as far as his mentors are concerned. This is quickly found to not be the case by Doctors Randall Kirby (Christian Slater), and Robert Henderson (Alec Baldwin), who was
Elize Matsunaga: Once Upon a Crime (Elize Matsunaga: Era Uma Vez Um Crime) is a Brazilian true crime documentary miniseries on Netflix. The four-part series focuses on Elize Matsunaga, who was convicted of shooting and dismembering her ultra-rich husband, Marcos Matsunaga. The series features the first and only media interview Elize agreed to, so she
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The film Stillwater is based upon and exploits the Amanda Knox story. Swapping Italy for the town of Marseille, France, Allison (Abigail Breslin), an American university student is convicted of killing her girlfriend, Lina. Bill (Matt Damon), Allison’s estranged father, visits her regularly in prison and is convinced of her innocence. The majority of the
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The Green Knight, based upon the poem, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, does the poem justice. We join our relatively pure-hearted Sir Gawain (Dev Patel) on Christmas morning, as he wakes in what appears to be a brothel. He rushes home to his Mother (Sarita Choudhury), to change for the Christmas Day feast with
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Snake Eyes is the newest film in the G.I. Joe franchise and gives us the backstory behind the titular character. Snake Eyes, who doesn’t have a real name, watches his father get murdered as a child. The guy that murders him, some nondescript mercenary-type dude, decides if he should kill someone via a roll of
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Georgetown, based upon the true story of a grifter, starring Christoph Waltz, Vanessa Redgrave, and Annette Bening, is the directorial debut of Christoph Waltz. Waltz plays Ulrich Mott, who marries an older, affluent widow, Elsa Breht (Redgrave), to climb the social ladder in Washington DC. Elsa’s daughter, Amanda (Bening) is understandably suspicious of Mott, for
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Body Brokers is based upon the very real fraud scam that occurs in the Substance Use Disorder (SUD)treatment world in the USA. The situation itself may seem completely foreign to anyone outside of the USA, and probably extremely horrifying. For background, I am well aware of this scheme, because I work in health care fraud,
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Sophie: A Murder in West Cork, is one of Netflix’s newest true-crime series offerings. Consisting of three episodes, the series examines the murder case of Sophie Toscan Du Plantier, a French National that was murdered at her rural holiday getaway home in Schull, Ireland in 1996. Du Plantier’s murder was the first in over 100
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SPOILER WARNING: This review covers all 6 episodes of Loki, so obviously contains massive spoilers! Loki, featuring the return of Tom Hiddleston to the MCU, has escaped with the tesseract, and is subsequently caught by the TVA. He agrees to help Owen Wilson’s Mobius track down a variant that is conveniently a version of himself.
Shadow and Bone is based upon the popular Young Adult series, The Grisha Trilogy, which takes place in a steampunk-ish, Russian fantasy world at war. The story’s main character is Alina Starkov (Jessie Mei Li), an orphan who discovers she has some magical powers when she journeys into something called the Fold with her childhood
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Murder by the Coast, or El case Wanninkhof-Carabantes, is a Spanish true-crime documentary, and one of the newest documentary films on Netflix. The film is a little less than an hour and a half and focuses mainly on the murder of Rocio Wanninkhof in 1999 in the small town of La Cala de Mijas, on
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Kindred is a psychological thriller/horror about the reluctantly pregnant Charlotte (Tamara Lawrance) after her boyfriend, Ben (Edward Holcroft), dies in a workplace accident. After this accident, Charlotte is taken in by Ben’s mother (Fiona Shaw), and creepy stepbrother, Thomas (Jack Lowden). They proceed to basically torture her and question her sanity. Prior to the accident,
When I first saw the preview for The Sparks Brothers, I was instantly intrigued, and eagerly counted down until the release date, 18 June. Then, when I checked the showtimes, I realized it was not playing at the theaters that had advertised it, and I would have to drive 45 minutes to see it. As
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