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The Task–Stay Focused: “Monk” meets “Slow Horses”

Written by Diana Paul on November 10, 2025. Posted in Television reviews, Unhealed Wound.

In the opening scene of The Task, a lost soul named Robbie (Tom Pelphrey of “Ozark”), leads two equally incompetent friends Cliff (Raul Castillo) and Peaches (Owen Teague), on a mission to rob drug houses. Not exactly “Breaking Bad” but the target is a ruthless drug cartel, aptly named the Dark Hearts. What could go...

Néro the Assassin (2025)–A Slayer and Hero

Written by Diana Paul on November 3, 2025. Posted in movie reviews, Unhealed Wound. 1 Comment on Néro the Assassin (2025)–A Slayer and Hero

Néro the Assassin, set in the 16th century southern French town of Lamartine, opens with an assassin for hire–Nero– bemoaning the fact that: “If you want old age and a peaceful life, don’t have kids.” For years southern France has suffered a devastating drought and famine. The archbishop of the...

The Last Showgirl–Las Vegas or Bust?

Written by Diana Paul on October 19, 2025. Posted in Unhealed Wound.

The Last Showgirl (2024) opens with the once-popular Las Vegas Razzle Dazzle show struggling to remain in business. Shelly Gardner (the Academy Award nominated Pamela Anderson of “Baywatch”) still has delusions that the Razzle Dazzle, where she has danced for over thirty years, will survive. This delusion is due to a ...

Descendant–The Last Slave Ship

Written by Diana Paul on March 16, 2025. Posted in movie reviews, Unhealed Wound.

Descendant is a National Geographic-produced documentary about their mission to discover the Clotilda, the last known slave ship to bring African people to the US. The Clotilda arrived in Mobile Bay, Alabama in 1859 carrying 110 men, women, and children as cargo. The Clotilda was illegally transporting these people. The Act...

A Real Pain–Heartache

Written by Diana Paul on March 9, 2025. Posted in movie reviews, Unhealed Wound. 1 Comment on A Real Pain–Heartache

Somehow imagine a comedic road-trip between two polar-opposite young cousins–David and Benji– to Auschwitz. That is A Real Pain, starring Jesse Eisenberg (“Social Network”) and Kieran Culkin (of “Succession”). The two cousins are given an all-expenses paid trip to Poland by their now deceased grandmother to honor her survival from...

Penguin–A Waddle of Weirdness

Written by Diana Paul on December 1, 2024. Posted in Television reviews, Unhealed Wound.

Based upon the DC Comic Batman and one of his nemeses, Penguin, this HBOmax mini-series is a spinoff of the 2022 Batman movie. Premiering on September 19 as a weekly installment, each episode tightly leads the viewer to the next surprising and noirish plot point. Oz Cobb (Colin Farrell), rather derisively called Penguin...