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 […]
Beckett is the latest Netflix release, an action thriller set in Greece about an American tourist who finds himself in the wrong place at the wrong time. After brilliant performances in the likes of Tenet and BlacKkKlansman, I watched this purely because of John David Washington. However, sadly this film is lacking in everything we’ve
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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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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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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Mare of Easttown is an American crime drama limited series that premiered on HBO and Sky Atlantic back in April. Starring Kate Winslet and a stellar supporting cast including the likes of Guy Pearce, Evan Peters and Julianne Nicholson, I was initially sceptical. However, while on the surface appearing to be a run of the
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Spiral: From the Book of Saw is, unsurprisingly, the latest film in the Saw movie franchise. Instead of being a reboot, remake or direct sequel, Spiral is set within the same universe a number of years after the death of John Kramer. The brainchild of self-confessed Saw super fan Chris Rock, I had high hopes
While we patiently wait for the return of John Wick and another dose of bad guy ass-kicking action from Keanu Reeves, along comes another movie to fill the void. Written by Derek Kolstad, who actually created and wrote the John Wick franchise, Nobody has a very similar feel about it to the John Wick movies.
Cruella is the newest live-action adaptation of a cartoon character that Disney decided to give us. I only went to see the movie because there was nothing else out in the theater this weekend. At an overly long, bloated run time of 2 hours and 12 minutes, we get the entire life story of Cruella,
The synopsis for Vanquish describes it as a “dynamic action thriller” about a former drug runner who’s forced into carrying out five very dangerous pickups in one night. Written and directed by George Gallo (Bad Boys, Midnight Run), Vanquish stars Morgan Freeman and Ruby Rose, so you would hope that it would at least be
It’s been a long time since a blockbuster “of the Dead” zombie film hit our screens (since 2009 with Romero’s Survival of the Dead), so expectations of Zack Snyder’s Army of the Dead were high. I’m a huge fan of zombie films and after a mixed bag of a trailer I had my concerns, and
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Initiation is a 2020 horror film set within an American fraternity and sorority, that appeared in the trailer to be a generic trashy millennial horror that we’ve seen countless times before. However, the end result is a surprisingly serious yet gory horror with a very powerful storyline that sadly isn’t quite fully realised. Set on
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The Woman in the Window is a 2021 thriller that follows a similar story to that of the Hitchcock masterpiece Rear Window, but unfortunately despite a great cast, this doesn’t come close to the 1954 James Stewart classic. This Netflix original stars Amy Adams as Anna Fox, an agoraphobic child psychologist living in a large
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