Month: September 2018

“Jack Ryan”– New Version of “Homeland”

Written by diana on September 28, 2018. Posted in Television reviews.

This new undertaking (by Amazon Prime) of Tom Clancy’s blockbuster Jack Ryan series pays off big-time. John Krasinski as a boyish Jack Ryan adds unexpected dimension to this eight-episode series focused on a terrorist plot in Syria. If this is your genre, you will inevitably make a comparison with Clancy’s books and the older...

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

Written by diana on September 17, 2018. Posted in movie reviews. 1 Comment on The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society is a Netflix historical drama based on the 2008 historical best-selling novel of the same name by Mary Anne Shaffer and Annie Barrows. Set on the island of Guernsey in the English Channel, a year after the end of the Second World War, we see Julie Ashton (the talented Lily James –Lady...

Mr. Mercedes — “Bates Motel” meets “Mr. Robot”

Written by diana on September 11, 2018. Posted in Television reviews.

Mr. Mercedes, an Audience (DirecTV) mystery-thriller original series, is based on the Stephen King trilogy “Mr. Mercedes”, “Finders Keepers” and “End of Watch”. The macabre master again conjures alarming boundary-breaking drama, this time in economically depressed Bridgton, Ohio. The opening scene is...

“BlacKkKlansman”: Part of the American Fabric?

Written by diana on September 3, 2018. Posted in movie reviews. 2 Comments on “BlacKkKlansman”: Part of the American Fabric?

A Spike Lee film about white supremacy, BlacKkKlansman is based on Ron Stallworth’s 2006 memoir, which eviscerates the hideous social structures of racism in the US. In 1979 Stallworth (played by newcomer, John David Washington, son of Denzel Washington) becomes the first black detective in Colorado Springs’s police...

Month: September 2018

“Jack Ryan”– New Version of “Homeland”

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

Mr. Mercedes — “Bates Motel” meets “Mr. Robot”

“BlacKkKlansman”: Part of the American Fabric?

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