by admin | Nov 6, 2021 | What's Worth Watching
Sometimes it’s worth looking back. I’ve been so impressed by Midnight Mass, and basically be everything Mike Flanagan has done so far, that I took a couple of hours on a quiet Friday afternoon and re-watched Absentia, his first (available) feature film...
by admin | Oct 29, 2021 | What's Worth Watching
I have no idea how I stumbled on this, but I recently found myself slightly stunned at just how interesting – far from perfect, but damned interesting – I found a forgotten TV movie from 2006 – yeah, fifteen years ago – unfortunately called The Plague, or...
by admin | Jul 28, 2020 | What's Worth Watching
I just waded through Winchester on Netflix and … I am at a loss. At a loss to explain how so much money and talent could be wasted on such an utterly uninvolving, derivative, boring ‘haunted house’ movie. This shambling, unfeeling, tedious thing has beautiful...
by admin | Mar 6, 2020 | What's Worth Watching
Harlan Coben’s The Stranger is the firt indication than heis adaptations don’t have to be kind of limp and half-baked.. Maybe there’s hope. Coben makes a few jillion dollars a year on his suspense novels (though ‘suspense’ seems like a...
by admin | Mar 2, 2020 | What's Worth Watching
Seriously, who are they kidding? This moderately engaging I Am Not Okay With This is a Netflix mini-series that smells so strongly of Carrie and IT that it makes your nose twitch. So why are the producers claiming complete astonishment at the parallels? Don’t...
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