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A Little White Lie (2023)
Great story, well acted without being overly goofy or silly but subtle.
Was not expecting to like this movie, but it was in my Netflix list, and i rolled the dice, but it had Michael Shannon as a guy name Shriver, and he plays this depressed building caretaker in New York when he gets a letter from some small town thats holding an annual Literary Festival but interest has declined for years and all the famous names on their list have declined their invites, but Kate Hudson's Simone, decides to write to Shriver, a reclusive author who wrote a famous book and went missing for 20 years. Shriver, hadnt read a book gets advice from his drinking buddy, Lenny player by Sons of Anarchy's Michael Boone Junior, and reluctantly goes to the festival, beliving there will be a prize of some sort, maybe cash, but knows that he'll likely get found out and tries to go back to New York but Simone who meets him at the hotel bar, makes him stick around awhile. Anyway the people want so bad to believe he is whom he says he is and he says some very profound things along the way, he even begins to write something on notepads in order have something to say and the ruse going. Along the way, a woman goes missing whonhad slept in his room and a police detecive is asking questions. Simones ex husband played by Don Johnson, as a poet is tryjng to party with him, and Shriver grunts his way through everything convincingly. He even manages to give good advice young writers at a workshop.
The acting is very good in this, no one is overly "hammy" or overacting. I usually love Michael Shannons movies because he is not your typical "movie star" type actor. He always seems out of place or miscast in about everything. But he fits this role perfectly, hes not overacting, hes actually barely acting here but its just the right tone, not silly of goofy, unique restraint in something that could have easily gone too overboard.
The Pharmacist (2020)
Another overly dramatized docu-series from Netlfix
This documentary could have just been a full length one off. The story of the Schneider family losing their son Dan Jr., hearing how their son was a good normal boy with lots of potential, but got involved with Crack cocaine and was gunned down is sad. It made me very sad to hear the sorrow and hurt for this family, even how they contemplated suicide as a family over their grief, but Dan Sr and his wife turned their grief into a crusade to find their sons killer in New Orleans 9th ward and the crazy lengths they went to, sometimes without police help is inspiring on paper, but it's drawn out over 2 episodes. Over dramatized in how they talk to the witness who seen the shooting and her efforts to testify, is long, and drawn out, and they haven't even gotten to the part of how Dan Sr. , a pharmacists gets to crusade about fighting the opioid epidemic. There's a lot of information that could have been cut down in this series. Like a lot of Netflix series and others it could easily have been done in at least 2 episodes, or even just a 2 hr full length show. Please stop making these boring overly dramatized bore fests to our streaming services!
Daisy Jones & The Six (2023)
All Style No Substance
Watching Daisy and the Six, and there's much wrong with it. Everyone is just playing "rock star" there's no real acting. The whole set up. "They were one of the biggest bands in the world!" Is just strange as this fictitious band, had one album, they play one huge show and break up near the end of it.
At the beginning of episode 1, the members are all sitting for interviews "20 years later" which if the break up was 1977, 1997 would be 20 years later, but NONE OF THE MEMBERS HAVE AGED!!!! W. T. F!?. There's a point in episode 1, supposedly 1972ish where Daisy meets "Simone Jackson- 'Disco Pioneer!" And they have an jnterview with her supposedly 25 years later (not said in the show at this point-in estimating) where she also HASNT AGED!!!!" Whoever is giving this show good reviews and any more than 5 stars needs to give their head a shake! Find their brain, put it in their head, take another look at their review.
Shrinking (2023)
WHY IS SHOW RATED SO HIGH!!!!!!
This show 🙄. Every moment meant to be funny I'm this show is so lame. Jason Segal plays Jimmy a father of a teenage girl, his wife died in a car accident. Jimmy is a psychiatrist, who's having a breakdown at the start of the series, as he wakes up his neighbour and friend Liz, played by Christa Miller (with an unnecessary face lift, that left her nearly unrecognizable. Later in episode 6 she has her hair done up and she looks closer to herself from The Drew Carey Show. Why?...just why) who looks after the daughter played by Lukita Maxwell's character, Alice, while Jimmy is partying doing drugs with hookers in the pool. It's then that we learn that Jimmy is a psychiatrist, and we meet his mentor and partner at the clinic, Paul Rhoads, played by Harrison Ford, who is wasted playing an aging man who can no longer drive himself and recently diagnosed with Parkisons, and he reconnects with his estranged daughter. Ford's character become the quirky old guy, who they get to try medical Marijuana to see if it helps his Parkinsons and of course becomes every quirky old man in a tv comedy taking too many gummy bears, and shows up to A party for Jimmys gay lawyer freind wearing sunglasses, har har, hes The Dude...get it, har har. Meanwhile Jimmy has an epiphony, he tries to help his patients in a more hands on way, in which his mentor Paul, disagrees with, but allows him to move forward, he begins to help Grace leave her abusive husband, helps Sean his abusive PTSD suffering patient punch out his aggressions with MMA Training, Sean ends up staying at Jimmy's pool house and befriends his daughter. These have varying degrees of success. Anyway this show is just so light weight and contrived. Jason Segal overacting, the plot is so "major network", Harrison Ford slumming it as the quirky old man trying to get modern, it's just average entertainment all around. Skip this one.
Black Bird (2022)
Worst movie on AppleTV+
The headline says it. Taron Egerton's character is a drug dealing trouble maker sentenced to 10 years in prison, while his former cop father played by Ray Liotta tried to get him out as he is dying (one of Ray Liotta's last roles before his own death) but the FBI gives him a chance to get out early if he can convince a suspected child rapist, Larry (played by Paul Walter Houser)to confess to his crimes and tell where the bodies are buried. This entire movie does Ray Liotta no justice. None of the main characters are believable. The script is not convincing, PWH's acting consists of speaking in a pinched, high pitched voice, while smiling and leaving his mouth open as he breathes. Taron Egerton as James Keene's attempts to befriend Larry and get him to open up is obvious and Larry's tales of his sexual exploits to boost his credibility with James is laughable. Whether it's bad acting all around, or just a poor script or both, this film is crap.
Goliath (2016)
Goliath Season 3
Really enjoyed season 1 and 2 of this show. Season 3 however, gets bogged down in a lot of Billy getting drugged while investigating things at the Casino, also the cheesy sub plot of the owners of Blackwood farms in the Casino private business room smoking hash and having visions and the whole shape shifting raven thing, it's a little hokey. I find "Applebees" character annoying as well. The entire plot is a little confusing to follow in places.. hopefully season 4 is better. But Dennis Quads Wade Blackwood character was a nice addition. There's always a good array of characters but this time the plot was a little thin.
Bosch: Legacy (2022)
Not as Good as the original.
I loved the Original Bosch series. It was endless watchable as the main character was a hard ass detective, intelligent, did not smile hardly ever he was believable as a character and took no b.s from his partners or anyone. This new Bosch Legacy, not nearly as great. Henry Bosch, no longer a Detective but a Private Eye, loses his grit and toughness. He now smiles a little more even gives a little laughter. The actor playing him has put on a little weight, not a lot just a bit, but he doesn't look like a hard ass anymore. The writing for all the characters is different, and thats what throws me off the most. This show is almost like a run of the mill, Private Eye show on the main network TV without the laughs, and same plot.
Lou (2022)
One of the Dumbest movies on Netflix ever!!
Well this is one of the dumbest Netflix movies I've seen in a long time. Alison Janney plays this tough hardened wilderness type woman who lives in a small town, who apparently has some sort of past that was about to be made known so she set up a tarp in her house made a letter explaining what she did so long ago (vaguely) takes out all her money from the bank, and leaves it for her tennet and her little girl and is about to kill herself. So cut to the Tennant, it begins to storm and she tells her little girl that her Daddy died and then as she tucks her in, the lights go out, it's her fake dead ex-husband and he takes their little girl and runs. She goes to Lou's house to ask for help and saves her from killing herself and they go out to hunt down the ex husband. Turns out Lou was in the CIA that's how she was able to kill the other guys who were hired by the ex husband to help find his ex wife. So later on they find the ex and the little girl, turns out the ex husband is Lou's son who was left behind when Lou chose the CIA over him, and he is trying to kill her and take his daughter back. Boy talk about a convoluted plot!!!
She-Hulk: Attorney at Law (2022)
Fun at times, but mostly just hammy embarrassing.
Where do I start with this show? Well for one, it's annoying that it's got half hour episodes, but they waste a minute and half or longer with a recap of last week's show. Then at the end put outtakes that they had no time for in the story. Then there's the end credits which come before the outtakes. This show is a mess!
There's fun scenes but mostly they get kind of hokey at times with the cameos from Avengers, such as Bruce Banner aka The Hulk, Etc. And Wong, and some Super Heros show up with court cases they bring to Tatiana Matslany's She Hulk or Jennifer Walters in her human form. She talks to the audience to give exposition on the scene to come. This is an annoying contrivance.
This show has fun moments but they are few and far between. Tatiana Matslany is great here but her talent is wasted in this show.