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Sinners–Get Out of Limbo

Written by Diana Paul on February 8, 2026. Posted in movie reviews. 1 Comment on Sinners–Get Out of Limbo

Sinners, directed and written by Ryan Coogler (most famously known for “Black Panther”), opens in a church consisting of mostly Black congregants in the Mississippi Delta. The year is 1932. Sammie (Miles Caton), a twenty-something young man in sharecropper overalls with brutal gashes on his left cheek, walks up to the front carrying...

City of Shadows–Throw Some Shade

Written by Diana Paul on February 2, 2026. Posted in movie reviews, Unhealed Wound. 1 Comment on City of Shadows–Throw Some Shade

Based on a Spanish novel by Aro Sáinz de la Maza, we see a man hanging off a balcony of a UNESCO World Heritage site, Casa Milá (Pedrera). His body has been set on fire. The murder victim is the CEO of a giant construction company and has profited from government contracts for housing and civic development. Barcelona, City of Shadows...

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...