Month: June 2025

Widow Clicquot–Effervescent Pioneer

Written by Diana Paul on June 30, 2025. Posted in movie reviews. 2 Comments on Widow Clicquot–Effervescent Pioneer

Inspired by a true story. Widow Clicquot, a 2024 Netflix movie, dramatizes the audacious journey of Barbe-Nicole Ponsardin (Haley Bennett). She married at a very young age to the handsome but deeply disturbed Francois Clicquot (Tom Sturridge) who was heir to a champagne vineyard long struggling to be profitable. Based on...

Secrets We Keep–Lies and Privilege?

Written by Diana Paul on June 22, 2025. Posted in Television reviews.

The Danish “Nordic noir” series, Secrets We Keep (2025), centers around the disappearance of an attractive Filipino au pair, Ruby (Donna Levkovski), from a wealthy Copenhagen home. An investigation is requested by Ruby’s wealthy neighbor, Cecilie (Marie Bach Hansen). No one else in the affluent neighborhood seems to care enough to...

I, Jack Wright– ”Succession” British-style?

Written by Diana Paul on June 16, 2025. Posted in Television reviews, Travel (Domestic).

This Netflix six-episode British thriller I, Jack Wright (2025) unravels a highly dysfunctional family’s secrets and betrayals. Each member of a multi-millionaire’s overly privileged family has motivation to murder the aging septuagenarian patriarch and business tycoon, Jack Wright (Trevor Eve), found dead in the opening scene. ...

Dept. Q–”Slow Horses” Wannabe?

Written by Diana Paul on June 10, 2025. Posted in Television reviews. 2 Comments on Dept. Q–”Slow Horses” Wannabe?

Written and directed by American Scott Frank (of “Queen’s Gambit”), the Netflix series Dept Q in nine episodes is based on Danish author Jussi Adler-Olsen’s crime thriller The Keeper of Lost Causes. Filmed in Edinburgh, Dept. Q opens with a terrifying misfiring (literally) of a crime scene gone wrong. Detective Morck...

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The Handmaid’s Tale (final season)–An Acknowledgement or Acceptance?

Written by Diana Paul on June 2, 2025. Posted in Television reviews.

Keeping things fresh in the sixth and final season of Handmaid’s Tale, this award-winning drama moves the story ever closer to authoritarianism embedded in a hellscape of a misogynistic dystopia. Gilead is attempting to remake itself, presumably for public relations more than anything else. Smoothing the edges of its own...

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Month: June 2025

Widow Clicquot–Effervescent Pioneer

Secrets We Keep–Lies and Privilege?

I, Jack Wright– ”Succession” British-style?

Dept. Q–”Slow Horses” Wannabe?

The Handmaid’s Tale (final season)–An Acknowledgement or Acceptance?

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