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The Girlfriend–Really?

Written by Diana Paul on October 27, 2025. Posted in Television reviews.

In this melodramatic thriller, based on Michelle Frances’ 2017 novel The Girlfriend, Laura (Robin Wright) has it all: a highly successful career as a gallery owner, tremendous wealth, a loving husband, and her prized son, Daniel (Laurie Davidson), a doctor. When Daniel brings home Cherry (Olivia Cooke), his current girlfriend, 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 ...

A Different Man–Beauty in the Eyes of the Beholder

Written by Diana Paul on October 13, 2025. Posted in movie reviews.

In A Different Man (written and directed by Aaron Schimberg) a struggling actor, Edward (Sebastian Stan) has a genetic disorder, neurofibromatosis, that has given him disfiguring tumors all over his face and body. Moreover, the tumors will eventually lead to blindness and death. Hardly the ideal look for someone who desires to...

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Doctor Foster–”Fatal Attraction” or, A Woman Scorned

Written by Diana Paul on October 5, 2025. Posted in Television reviews. 1 Comment on Doctor Foster–”Fatal Attraction” or, A Woman Scorned

Doctor Foster (season 1) opens with a loving scene of husband and wife enjoying a routine morning with their teenage son, Tom (Tom Taylor). Seems like the perfect life… until it isn’t. A trusted GP in London, Dr. Gemma Foster (Suranne Jones of “Hostage”) starts to wonder why her husband, Simon (Bertie Carvel), a real-estate...

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Wednesday–Mother-Daughter Witchery

Written by Diana Paul on September 15, 2025. Posted in Television reviews.

In this cleverly written sequel to the 1960’s Addams Family television series as well as to the movie, we see Wednesday Addams (the electrifying Jenna Ortega) as a fifteen-year old sorcerer attending Nevermore, a Hogswarts-like institution for Outcasts.Wednesday. has trance-like states of consciousness wherein she sees the future. ...

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Hostage (2025)–Held Captive or Not?

Written by Diana Paul on September 7, 2025. Posted in Television reviews. 1 Comment on Hostage (2025)–Held Captive or Not?

In the opening scene of the five-episode Netflix mini-series, Hostage, two heads of state –British Prime Minister Abigail Dalton (Suranne Jones) and French President Vivienne Toussaint (Julie Delpy), face a pending crisis: medication shortage for an epidemic causing citizens to die in the streets in the UK and refugees overflowing...

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