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Posted by on Dec 16, 2024 in Blog | 1 comment

Review: No Good Deed (on Netflix)

 

 

No Good Deed is the type of show I rarely watch.

It’s yet another all-too familiar television series about rich narcissists living in the lush foothills of Los Angeles who apparently don’t work for a living — yet they have no money problems, never clean the house nor do any yard work, and still somehow manage to drink cosmos all day long while desperately trying to manage all that daily stress. Of course, each of their lives is a giant clusterfuck, intersecting with one other in rubbernecking matrix of crippling insecurities, greed, jealousy, adultery, and spite, laced with an overdose of pettiness.

Aww. Poor things.

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Posted by on Dec 14, 2024 in Blog | 2 comments

Black Doves — Review (Netflix)

 

 

BLACK DOVES — REVIEW (ON NETFLIX)

There’s a lot to love about Black Doves, the latest popular series now available on Netflix. There’s also considerable chaos and confusion. To enjoy, we must suspend all sense of reality. This sort of thing could never happen in real life. Think of Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels crossed with The Gentlemen melded with Kingsmen and frosted with Zero Dark Thirty. Rarely does a spy-caper provide so much style. Death monologues become poetry. Killing is art.

I loved most of it. I hated parts of it.

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Posted by on Dec 5, 2024 in Blog | 0 comments

Conclave (Movie Review)

 

 

MOVIE REVIEW: CONCLAVE (2024)

“There is one sin which I have come to fear above all else ….. certainty.

It is the great enemy of unity. Certainty the deadly enemy of tolerance.”

— Cardinal Thomas Lawrence (played by actor Ralph Feinnes) in the movie, “Conclave”

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Posted by on Dec 2, 2024 in Blog | 1 comment

What’s Next, a Black George Washington?

 

SOCIAL ENGINEERING VS. OUR UGLY HISTORY

Forgive the attention-grabbing headline and question. But, think about it.

Today’s thought melds the aspirations of modern entertainment vs. real history and the ugly cultural norms of earlier times.

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