Tag: Netflix

Animals–Our Primal Nature?

Written by Diana Paul on October 19, 2026. Posted in movie reviews. No Comments on Animals–Our Primal Nature?

Ben Affleck directed and co-wrote Animals, a 2026 Netflix production. This crime thriller centers on the kidnapping of a child and the political staging to win an election. Mark Kimball (Ben Affleck) is an independent Los Angeles mayoral candidate, convinced partly by his strategist, Sam (Steve Yuen), that he can win the hearts and...

The Turning Point: War on Terror–Remembering 9/11 Twenty-five Years Later

Written by Diana Paul on September 11, 2026. Posted in Series.

In this groundbreaking documentary, we witness 9/11 from a myriad of vantage points. The Turning Point (2021) interviews firefighters, survivors of the World Trade Center’s Twin Towers, the Pentagon, and the aborted attack on the White House plus all five US presidents (Bush, Clinton, Obama, Biden, and...

Big Mistakes–Errors in Judgment

Written by Diana Paul on June 21, 2026. Posted in Series.

Big Mistakes is first and foremost, about a big messy family, with a single mom, Linda (Laurie Metcalf), and three adult children. Only the highly organized and systematic youngest (and favorite), Natalie (Abby Quinn), seems to have her mother’s respect and affection. Linda, highly community-centered, decides to run...

Straight to Hell–The Devil Is in the Details

Written by Diana Paul on May 31, 2026. Posted in Series.

Straight to Hell (Japanese: Jigoku ni ochiru wa yo) is a 2026 drama about Kazuko Hosoki, Japan’s most famous psychic, and her highly controversial and questionable tactics. The title Straight to Hell is taken from her notorious warning: “You’re going straight to hell”. [Are there echoes here of another TV celebrity’s questionable persona...

Detective Hole (2026)–Burrowng Underneath

Written by Diana Paul on April 13, 2026. Posted in Series.

The Netflix Scandi-noir series, Detective Hole, is adapted from master Norwegian detective author, Jo Nesbø’s The Devil’s Star. A dual plot unfolds with a gruesome serial killer as one crime and a drug/weapons smuggling network of heists as the second. In the opening scene, set in Oslo, a disastrous car crash...

His and Hers–They, Theirs Anyone?

Written by Diana Paul on February 23, 2026. Posted in Television reviews.

This mini-series thriller, based on the eponymous novel by Alice Feeney, opens with the brutal murder of a young woman, Rachel Hopkins (Jamie Tisdale).She was in a car late at night oin an isolated road in the back woods of Dahlonega, Georgia. Shadows of the woman being murdered, with rain clouding the...