An overwhelmingly vast number of psychic claims should be taken with a healthy dose of salt, and Call Me Miss Cleo aims to be sodium-free. HBO Max’s original documentary does, however, throw a little bit of corn syrup into the mix. It promises viewers an in-depth study on a complicated con game, Psychic Readers Network (Prn), a call-in service which took in billions of dollars from the desperately lonely, and pours out a VH1 Behind the Music-style tale of a fallen celebrity who couldn’t see her fate in the stars.
Call Me Miss Cleo is co-directed by Jennifer Brea and Celia Aniskovich, and they come at it with great empathy, which undercuts the accusations against the prime suspect, and makes the prosecuting investigators look like true believers. Neither is the case, but the ambiguity is only skimmed in the dark pond of corporate malfeasance and community standards. The late middle section,...
Call Me Miss Cleo is co-directed by Jennifer Brea and Celia Aniskovich, and they come at it with great empathy, which undercuts the accusations against the prime suspect, and makes the prosecuting investigators look like true believers. Neither is the case, but the ambiguity is only skimmed in the dark pond of corporate malfeasance and community standards. The late middle section,...
- 12/16/2022
- by Alec Bojalad
- Den of Geek
If you turned on a television in the late '90s and early 2000s, it was nearly impossible to miss a commercial for the psychic Miss Cleo, but before the FBI finally shut down the fraudulent business, it was a junior Court TV reporter who first discovered the scam.
Fresh out of journalism school, Matt Bean was an eager cub reporter when Miss Cleo, who passed away from colon cancer on Wednesday, was at the height of her psychic network success.
Suspicious of the business, Bean – who now works for People's parent company, Time Inc. – began investigating and got a...
Fresh out of journalism school, Matt Bean was an eager cub reporter when Miss Cleo, who passed away from colon cancer on Wednesday, was at the height of her psychic network success.
Suspicious of the business, Bean – who now works for People's parent company, Time Inc. – began investigating and got a...
- 7/28/2016
- by Emily Strohm, @emablonde
- People.com - TV Watch
If you turned on a television in the late '90s and early 2000s, it was nearly impossible to miss a commercial for the psychic Miss Cleo, but before the FBI finally shut down the fraudulent business, it was a junior Court TV reporter who first discovered the scam. Fresh out of journalism school, Matt Bean was an eager cub reporter when Miss Cleo, who passed away from colon cancer on Wednesday, was at the height of her psychic network success. Suspicious of the business, Bean began investigating and got a tip that the psychics were actually using a prewritten script,...
- 7/28/2016
- by Emily Strohm, @emablonde
- PEOPLE.com
For years, the hunt for more footage of Eric Stoltz's original rendition of Marty McFly in Back To The Future has been an elusive quest. After several huge anniversaries, and just as many home video re-releases, no further release of the four week's that were shot with Stolz's incarnation has been released to the public - outside of clips included in previous documentaries. But if you watch the video below, you'll see a clip of footage that's been right under your nose all this time. YouTube contributors Too Old To Grow Up are the mad geniuses that spotted the shot in the cafe during Marty and George's pep talk back in 1955. It's a classic scene that we've all seen countless times, and it's never stood out as anything weird in comparison to the rest of the film. But little did we ...
- 9/15/2015
- cinemablend.com
For years, the hunt for more footage of Eric Stolz's original rendition of Marty McFly in Back To The Future has been an elusive quest. After several huge anniversaries, and just as many home video re-releases, no further release of the four week's that were shot with Stolz's incarnation has been released to the public - outside of clips included in previous documentaries. But if you watch the video below, you'll see a clip of footage that's been right under your nose all this time. YouTube contributors Too Old To Grow Up are the mad geniuses that spotted the shot in the cafe during Marty and George's pep talk back in 1955. It's a classic scene that we've all seen countless times, and it's never stood out as anything weird in comparison to the rest of the film. But little did we know that during all of this time,...
- 9/15/2015
- cinemablend.com
We all know what goes into making a movie franchise… more than one sequel, sometimes desired by the masses, sometimes, not so much. Generally speaking, these are big budget blockbuster films, but the genre varies slightly from action to horror to comedy and even fantasy. But, the more pertinent question on the minds of the Movie Geeks is… What makes a movie franchise great? In this week’s Top Ten Tuesday, we attempt to answer that question by compiling our own list of the ten greatest movie franchises of all-time!
Honorable Mention: Indiana Jones
Raiders Of The Lost Ark (1981) Indiana Jones And The Temple Of Doom (1984) Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade (1989) Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull (2008)
In the 80’s, the Indiana Jones franchise was on an epic, legendary role. I have met few people in the world who have had anything bad to say about the first three films.
Honorable Mention: Indiana Jones
Raiders Of The Lost Ark (1981) Indiana Jones And The Temple Of Doom (1984) Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade (1989) Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull (2008)
In the 80’s, the Indiana Jones franchise was on an epic, legendary role. I have met few people in the world who have had anything bad to say about the first three films.
- 6/23/2010
- by Movie Geeks
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
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