Tag: Netflix Instant Queue

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...

“The Invisible Guest”–What You See is Not What You Guess

Written by diana on October 26, 2018. Posted in movie reviews, Unhealed Wound. 4 Comments on “The Invisible Guest”–What You See is Not What You Guess

The Invisible Guest (2016) (Spanish: Contratiempo) is a 2016 Spanish crime thriller by director and writer Oriol Paulo. The intricate plot will leave the viewer spellbound . Adrián Doria, a successful business entrepreneur, husband and father, is knocked unconscious, and wakes up in a locked hotel room to find the dead body of Laura...

“Pure”–A Torn Soul

Written by diana on April 9, 2017. Posted in movie reviews. 2 Comments on “Pure”–A Torn Soul

"Pure" is a portrait of a 20-year-old girl who is determined to flee her dreary grungy life, bullied by tormenters at school and neglected by her alcoholic prostitute mother. Everything changes when she hears a performance of Mozart's Requiem, opening up a new world to a soul aching for an intellectual life.

“House of Cards” — A Bulimic Buffet for Couch Potatoes?

Written by diana on February 11, 2013. Posted in Television reviews, Unhealed Wound. 6 Comments on “House of Cards” — A Bulimic Buffet for Couch Potatoes?

Why wait a week to watch another episode when an entire buffet is available? A lot has been written recently about “binge-watching” the practice of sitting on the couch or in bed to gorge on an entire season or a majority of episodes of a television series in one batch. The bulimic viewer was not possible before Tivo, DVRs and Netflix video...

Tag: Netflix Instant Queue

The Beast in Me–Animal Instincts?

“The Invisible Guest”–What You See is Not What You Guess

“Pure”–A Torn Soul

“House of Cards” — A Bulimic Buffet for Couch Potatoes?

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