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Ordeal by Innocence (2018)–Who is Blameless?

Written by Diana Paul on January 25, 2026. Posted in movie reviews.

Ordeal by Innocence opens in the luxurious library at Sunny Point, the estate of wealthy heiress Rachel Argyll (Anna Chancellor). On Christmas Day she is found face down in a pool of blood. Almost immediately their ne’er-do-well son Jack is charged with the murder, found guilty, and imprisoned. Evidence pointed to Jack’s...

The Asset (2025)–Collateral Damage?

Written by Diana Paul on January 18, 2026. Posted in Television reviews.

The Asset (Danish: Legenden) opens with the murder of a Danish senior intelligence agent. The Danish counterintelligence now needs a replacement. Enter the strongly independent young Tea (Clara Dessau), in the middle of her Police Academy training. Tea has had a very difficult childhood with an alcoholic...

Down Cemetery Road–A Grave Drama

Written by Diana Paul on January 12, 2026. Posted in Television reviews.

For fans of Mick Herron’s “Slow Horses”, the new series Down Cemetery Road is part of the Zoë Boehm series featuring a tough-as-nails Oxford-educated detective (Emma Thompson) who takes no prisoners. The other main character is a quixotic homemaker named Sarah Trafford (Ruth Wilson), whose husband is a cheating liar with little respect or...

My Top 25 Movies and Series of 2025

Written by Diana Paul on January 4, 2026. Posted in movie reviews, Television reviews.

I have twenty-five films and series to recommend. These are dramas I watched in 2025, but many were produced much earlier. Some are less well-known and under-the-radar. Here are the reviews I wrote this past year with the criteria that they were available for streaming free. Of the 44 reviews I posted this year, these...

Wake Up Dead Man–A Holier-Than-Thou Mystery

Written by Diana Paul on December 29, 2025. Posted in movie reviews.

Wake Up Dead Man takes place in Chimney Rock, a small town in upstate New York, where a newly ordained Catholic priest named Jud Duplenticy (Josh O’Connor) has been assigned to work under Monsignor Jefferson Wicks (Josh Brolin). An aging, hateful right-wing cleric, Wicks has nothing but contempt for gay...

The Beast in Me–Animal Instincts?

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

The Beast in Me (2025), a psychological whodunit, is set in Oyster Bay, an affluent suburb in Long Island, where the uber-wealthy play with impunity from law and order. In this drama focused on the dark side of privilege, Aggie Wiggs (Claire Danes), a Pulitzer-Prize-winning author and affluent resident, is still riding the success...