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Review of Greenlights

Review of Greenlights by Mathew McConaughey Rating **** 1/2 Some guys have all the luck. Some guys have all the fun. Mathew McConaughey is the type of guy who Rod Stewart was talking about. Right place. Right time. It starts with an offer for a bit part in a movie. Add in an adlib line […]

Review of The Volunteer

Review of the Volunteer: One Man, an Underground Army, and the Secret Mission to Destroy Auschwitz by Jack Fairweather Rating **** 1/2 Not too many people would volunteer to be imprisoned in a German prison camp. A member of the Polish underground, Witold Pilecki, did just that. His goal was to learn what was happening […]

Review of Depp vs Heard

Review of the Netflix Docuseries Depp vs Heard Rating ***** Netflix has been churning out one great documentary after another. This one about the Johnny Depp defamation suit against Amber Heard is another one to add to the list. The filmmakers tell the story in three episodes. You’ve seen most of the highlights before. What […]

Review of Painkiller

Review of the Netflix drama series PainKiller The opioid epidemic has been covered in books and documentaries. I’ve always thought that the people behind the pills were legalized drug dealers. This series looks at the Sackler family and how their pharmaceutical company Purdue Pharma made it all happen by flooding the marketplace with pills while […]

Review of The Dive

Review of The Dive: The Untold Story of the World’s Deepest Submarine Rescue written by Stephen McGinty Rating ***** This book was released two years before the Titan submersible accident. It was the recent incident, however, that drew me to this book. Unlike the Titan accident, which was lost probably at the same time they […]

Oppenheimer great film but…

Review of Oppenheimer written by Christopher Nolan, Kai Bird, and Martin Sherwin and directed by Christopher Nolan Rating **** 1/2 Making a film is a collaborative process. When you are both the writer and the director and you are also considered a visionary, there is a good chance that no one is going to question […]

Review of The Wager

Review of The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder by David Grann Rating ***** In 1519 Ferdinand Magellan set sail from Spain with five ships and 270 men for the first attempt to circumnavigate the globe. Only one ship returned three years later with 18 men, and Magellan was not among them. Some […]

Review of Sound of Freedom

Review of the Sound of Freedom written by Rod Barr and Alejandro Monteverde, Directed by Alejandro Monteverde rating ***** It’s not until the end of the film do you learn that sex trafficking and child abductions are the leading criminal activity in the world. Unlike drugs, which can only be sold once, children can be […]

Review of Take Care of Maya

Review of Take Care of Maya Directed by Henry Roosevelt Rating ***** With great power comes great responsibility. This documentary shows what can happen when a few people are given the power to destroy families and not think twice about the consequences. It starts with a young girl experiencing unexplainable symptoms. The parents, Beata and […]

Review of the Netflix Docudrama The Days

Review of the Netflix Docudrama The Days Rating ***** This is a Japanese film with Japanese actors dubbed in English. You may find it distracting for all of five minutes. Once the earthquake hits, you won’t even think about the dubbed English dialogue. The story will draw you in. The explosions, radioactive leaks, and possible […]