TV Review: Amazon’s CITADEL (S1) – Chopra + Madden offer eye candy but the spy series is mostly style over substance bogged down by clunky expositions

The spy thriller is one of my favorite genres but there are so many of them these days it's hard to keep up with them all. This one stands out from the pack given Amazon’s huge marketing budget (you can’t escape seeing an ad for it everywhere), plus it's executive produced by the Russo brothers. …

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Happy New Year! Four Actors I’d love to see portray Auld Lang Syne’s writer, Scottish poet Robert Burns

Happy New Year, everyone!! So long 2022, welcome 2023! I know those of you in the Southern Hemisphere had already rung in the New Year. Well, there are still four hours to go where I am now, and I thought I'd resurrect this old post I did twelve years ago about Scottish poet Robbie Burns, …

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FlixChatter Review: ETERNALS (2021)

I wasn't all that familiar with Eternals as I never read the comics, but I was excited as soon as I heard that Chloe Zhao was announced as director and the casting news starting to pour in. I started reading a bit more about just what/who these super-beings actually are in preparation for the movie. …

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Marvel’s ETERNALS – final trailer!

Wow, can't believe it's been three months since Marvel released the first ETERNALS trailer. Well, since Shang-Chi's first critical reactions have been mostly positive, I guess the studio did not want to lose momentum for Phase 4. So behold ETERNALS' final trailer! https://youtu.be/x_me3xsvDgk The Eternals, a race of immortal beings with superhuman powers who have …

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THIS JUST IN! Marvel’s ETERNALS first trailer

Boy, Marvel sure takes their time in releasing the trailer! It's nearly a month ago today that Chloe Zhao won two Oscars for directing and producing NOMADLAND, finally we got the first trailer! The Eternals, a race of immortal beings with superhuman powers who have secretly lived on Earth for thousands of years, reunite to …

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FlixChatter Review – 1917 (2020)

When I heard that Sam Mendes, the Oscar winning director of American Beauty and one of my favorite “James Bond” films, Skyfall, was releasing a World War I film, I was beyond intrigued. Centered around the spring of 1917 during the German retreat to the Hindenburg Line during Operation Alberich, Mendes wanted to incorporate a …

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Musings on TV Series Recently Watched: Bodyguard & SS-GB

HAPPY NEW YEAR! (I think you can still say that until at least mid January, right?) It's a relatively mellow weekend for me and I realize I haven't actually written a review in 2019 yet but I've been bingeing a ton of shows in the past month or so. I've blogged about Daredevil Season 3 …

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