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Disclaimer–Truth or Fiction?

Written by Diana Paul on November 25, 2024. Posted in Television reviews.

Five-time Oscar winner Alfonso Cuaron (of “Roma”, “Y Tu Mama Tambien”, “Pan’s Labyrinth“, “Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkhaban”, and more) directs Disclaimer based upon Renée Knight’s novel of the same name. The middle-aged protagonist, Catherine Ravenscroft (Academy Award-winner Cate Blanchett), receives a career-defining award...

Slow Horses–Win the Race

Written by Diana Paul on November 19, 2024. Posted in Television reviews.

Slow Horses, a multiple award-winning British spy thriller based on the Slough House series of novels by Mick Herron, will have at least a six-season run due to its phenomenal popularity. [The first four seasons are available for streaming now.] MI5 recruits and some agents who have failed training or...

Moonflower Murders–M is for Murder

Written by Diana Paul on November 11, 2024. Posted in Television reviews.

The PBS series Moonflower Murders, the eponymous mystery series by Anthony Horowitz, is the sequel to the PBS series, “Magpie Murders” (see my January 9, 2023 review). Susan Ryeland (Lesley Manville), book-editor-turned-sleuth, is known for having discovered and managed the Atticus Pund mystery series by the late Alan...

Operation Napoleon–Frozen Conspiracy

Written by Diana Paul on November 4, 2024. Posted in movie reviews.

Operation Napoleon, a conspiracy treasure-hunt thriller, will have you thinking you are watching an “Indiana Jones” drama. Romanticizing parts of a true story, Operation Napoleon opens in April 1945, when a Nazi airplane flies over Iceland in the middle of a storm. The plane crashes with no...

The Perfect Couple–Beauty in the Eye of the Beholder

Written by Diana Paul on October 27, 2024. Posted in movie reviews, Television reviews.

The Perfect Couple, an American seaside mystery based on the 2018 novel of the same name by Elin Hilderbrand, was released on Netflix in September. Set in Nantucket in an opulent mansion, Greer Garrison Winbury (Nicole Kidman), a famous murder mystery author, is obsessing over the wedding for her favorite son, Benji...

Civil War–Battleground States

Written by Diana Paul on October 21, 2024. Posted in movie reviews, Unhealed Wound. 2 Comments on Civil War–Battleground States

In the 2024 film Civil War a van of war correspondents travels undercover from New York City to Washington DC to bear witness to the civil war between a dictator/president (Nick Offerman of “Parks and Recreations” fame) and violent secessionists. There is no explanation of why there is a civil war, who is fighting...