Streaming review: “The Mist” (2017 – )

“The Mist” (2017) Fantasy/Horror 10 Episodes Produced by: Guy J. Louthan and Amanda Segel Featuring: Morgan Spector, Alyssa Sutherland, Gus Birney, Danica Curcic, Okezie Morro, Luke Cosgrove, Darren Pettie, Russell Posner and Frances Conroy An unexplained mist slowly envelops the city of Bridgton, Maine, creating an almost impenetrable barrier to visibility. The residents of the town …

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Streaming review: “The Mist” (2017 – )

“The Mist” (2017) Fantasy/Horror 10 Episodes Produced by: Guy J. Louthan and Amanda Segel Featuring: Morgan Spector, Alyssa Sutherland, Gus Birney, Danica Curcic, Okezie Morro, Luke Cosgrove, Darren Pettie, Russell Posner and Frances Conroy An unexplained mist slowly envelops the city of Bridgton, Maine, creating an almost impenetrable barrier to visibility. The residents of the town …

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Streaming Review: “American Gods” (2017 – ) Episode Eight: “Come to Jesus”

“American Gods” (2017) Fantasy/Horror 8 Episodes Produced by: Bryan Fuller and Michael Green Featuring: Ricky Whittle, Emily Browning, Crispin Glover, Bruce Langley, Yetide Badaki, Pablo Schreiber and Ian McShane The series focuses on Shadow Moon, a man serving three years in prison. With only days remaining in his sentence, Shadow is given an unexpected early release after …

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Streaming Review: “American Gods” (2017 – ) Episode Seven: “A prayer for Mad Sweeney”

“American Gods” (2017) Fantasy/Horror 8 Episodes Produced by: Bryan Fuller and Michael Green Featuring: Ricky Whittle, Emily Browning, Crispin Glover, Bruce Langley, Yetide Badaki, Pablo Schreiber and Ian McShane The series focuses on Shadow Moon, a man serving three years in prison. With only days remaining in his sentence, Shadow is given an unexpected early release after …

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DVD review: “Don’t Think Twice” (2016)

“Don’t think twice” (2016) Comedy Running Time: 92 minutes Directed by: Mike Birbiglia Featuring: Keegan-Michael Key, Gillian Jacobs, Mike Birbiglia Bill: “I feel like your 20s are all about hope, and then your 30s are all about realizing how dumb it was to hope.” Over the past twenty years or so many of the top …

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Streaming Review: “American Gods” (2017 – ) Episode Six: “A murder of Gods”

“American Gods” (2017) Fantasy/Horror 8 Episodes Produced by: Bryan Fuller and Michael Green Featuring: Ricky Whittle, Emily Browning, Crispin Glover, Bruce Langley, Yetide Badaki, Pablo Schreiber and Ian McShane The series focuses on Shadow Moon, a man serving three years in prison. With only days remaining in his sentence, Shadow is given an unexpected early release after …

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Streaming review: War Machine” (2017)

“War Machine” (2017) Comedy/Drama Running Time: 122 minutes Director-screenwriter: David Michod Based on the book “The Operators: The Wild & Terrifying Inside Story of America's War in Afghanistan” by Michael Hastings Featuring: Brad Pitt, Anthony Michael Hall, Anthony Hayes, Topher Grace, Will Poulter, Tilda Swinton and Ben Kingsley Gen. Glen McMahon: [to the group of marines] I've spent the last week or so talking to …

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Streaming Review: “American Gods” (2017 – ) Episode Five: “Lemon Scented You”

“American Gods” (2017) Fantasy/Horror 8 Episodes Produced by: Bryan Fuller and Michael Green Featuring: Ricky Whittle, Emily Browning, Crispin Glover, Bruce Langley, Yetide Badaki, Pablo Schreiber and Ian McShane The series focuses on Shadow Moon, a man serving three years in prison. With only days remaining in his sentence, Shadow is given an unexpected early release after …

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Streaming Review: “American Gods” (2017 – ) Episode Four: “Git Gone”

“American Gods” (2017) Fantasy/Horror 8 Episodes Produced by: Bryan Fuller and Michael Green Featuring: Ricky Whittle, Emily Browning, Crispin Glover, Bruce Langley, Yetide Badaki, Pablo Schreiber and Ian McShane The series focuses on Shadow Moon, a man serving three years in prison. With only days remaining in his sentence, Shadow is given an unexpected early release after …

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Streaming Review: “American Gods” (2017 – ) Episode Three: “Head Full of Now”

“American Gods” (2017) Fantasy/Horror 8 Episodes Produced by: Bryan Fuller and Michael Green Featuring: Ricky Whittle, Emily Browning, Crispin Glover, Bruce Langley, Yetide Badaki, Pablo Schreiber and Ian McShane The series focuses on Shadow Moon, a man serving three years in prison. With only days remaining in his sentence, Shadow is given an unexpected early release after …

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Streaming Review: “Mindhorn” (2017)

“Mindhorn” (2017) Comedy/Thriller Running Time: 89 minutes Written by: Julian Barratt & Simon Farnaby Directed by: Sean Foley Featuring: Julian Barratt, Essie Davis, Kenneth Branagh, Andrea Riseborough, Steve Coogan, Russell Tovey, Harriet Walter, Jessica Barden, Simon Callow, Simon Farnaby, Nicholas Farrell, David Schofield, Tony Way Richard Thorncroft: “The Benedict Cumberbatch Backlash has begun.” Currently in …

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Streaming Review: “American Gods” (2017 – ) Episode Two: “The Secret of the Spoons”

“American Gods” (2017) Fantasy/Horror 8 Episodes Produced by: Bryan Fuller and Michael Green Featuring: Ricky Whittle, Emily Browning, Crispin Glover, Bruce Langley, Yetide Badaki, Pablo Schreiber and Ian McShane The series focuses on Shadow Moon, a man serving three years in prison. With only days remaining in his sentence, Shadow is given an unexpected early release after …

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Streaming Review: “American Gods” (2017 – ) Episode One – The Bone Orchard

“American Gods” (2017) Fantasy/Horror 8 Episodes Produced by: Bryan Fuller and Michael Green Featuring: Ricky Whittle, Emily Browning, Crispin Glover, Bruce Langley, Yetide Badaki, Pablo Schreiber and Ian McShane The series focuses on Shadow Moon, a man serving three years in prison. With only days remaining in his sentence, Shadow is given an unexpected early release after …

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DVD review: “Operation Avalanche (2016)”

Operation Avalanche (2016) Drama/Mock Documentary Running Time: 94 minutes Directed by: Matt Johnson Featuring: Matt Johnson, Owen Williams, Josh Boles I have a general weakness for found footage films, I think its that they are low budget and a throwback to the genre films that I loved since I was a child. I have found the …

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Streaming Review: “Into the Inferno” (2016)

"Into the Inferno" (2016) Documentary Running Time: 104 minutes Directed by: Werner Herzog Featuring: Clive Oppenheimer and Werner Herzog Werner Herzog: [reciting from Iceland's Codex Regius] “The sun dimeth / the land sinketh / Gusheth forth steam / And gutting fire / To the heaven soar / The hurtling flames / Of the mighty gods …

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Review Documentary: “13th” (2016)

"13th (2016) Documentary/Netflix Running Time: 101 minutes Director: Ava DuVernay Featuring: Jelani Cobb, Angela Davis, and Henry Louis Gates "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction." This latest documentary to …

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Review: “Michael Moore in TrumpLand” (2016)

"Michael Moore in TrumpLand" (2016) Documentary Stand-Up Running Time: 73 minutes Featuring: Michael Moore, Hillary Clinton, and Donald Trump Michael Moore: “Donald Trump came to the Detroit Economic Club and stood there in front of Ford Motor executives and said, ‘If you close these factories as you’re planning to do in Detroit and build them …

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Review: “Killing Reagan” (2016)

"Killing Reagan” (2016) Drama/True Story Running Time: 100 minutes Director: Rod Lurie Featuring: Tim Matheson, Cynthia Nixon, Joel Murray, Joe Chrest, Kyle S. More Cop: “You don’t look like the guy that shot the President.” Based on the book of the same name, by right wing Fox broadcaster Bill O’Reilly, this new film produced by …

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Review: “Mascots” (2016)

“Mascots” (2016) Comedy/Mockumentary Running Time: 89 minutes Director: Christopher Guest Featuring: Parker Posey, Bob Balaban, Christopher Guest, Jane Lynch, Jennifer Coolidge “Mascots” is Christopher Guests return to a genre he helped make famous – the mockumentary - with “This is Spinal Tap” (1984) and his last attempt at it, the excellent and underrated “A Mighty …

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