Reviews

The casting of "Unfrosted" is pitch perfect. The movie is just this brilliant, spot on parody that pokes incredible fun at the breakfast industry. The in-gags come fast; before you have a moment to think about what just landed, the next comes along. The visuals, the dialog, the characters - marvelous! Amy Schumer as the head of Post, Jim Gaffigan as Kellogg's. Marvelous. And the support characters weaving in and out of the plot - spot on! Parody of everything from "The Right Stuff" to "The Godfather"

My only complaint was the... the movie did feel a little long, but there was just SO much to process!

Great movie; superb viewing for a raining morning.

...is that TWO of the 5 Bodies can't stay awake through "3 Body Problem".

The show has some potential, but it keeps getting way too bogged down in the personal dramas surrounding the younger characters; spending entire episodes crying on a beach or in a bar.

Three saving graces are. Liam Cunningham ("Davos" from Game of Thrones"), Rosalind Chao ("Keiko O'Brien" from "Star Trek!") and. Benedict Wong ("Wong" from the MCU). They are able to ground this series and seem to be the three characters who keep the pace moving forward. Nothing is wasted when they are on screen. Sadly, there was a 4th actor, John Bradley (another GoT alum, "Samwell Tarly"), but they killed off his character early on.

Now that, two episodes out from the season finale, the pace has slowed to a glaciers pace, we're just rolling our eyes hoping to just get through it.

"Cinderella meets Game of Thrones"

Millie Bobby Brown holds her own in this interesting twist on a mid-evil tale. You think, as it starts, that you can see the plot telegraphed, but NOOO! Great twists and turns. Robin Wright is deliciously evil and can certainly give Cerce Lannaster a run for the money! Great supporting cast with Angela Basset and Ray Winstone. Just a fun movie with some actually good production values!

The final plot turn in the movie; our heroine making a friend out of a mortal foe (the dragon), was well done, and of course that leads to the climax that would make Game of Thrones blush.

Oh, what a God Awful production. There are a few saving graces; Allison Janney seems in her element. WONDERFUL to see Julia Duffy (Newhart) on the screen. Ricky Martin holds his own, but the rest of the cast really seems... rote. Even Laura Dern feels... forced. And it is truly a shame that the spectacular. Carol Burnett, other than in a few flashbacks, is reduced to playing a comatose body for most of the first three episodes (as far as they have been released to date). This show needs her; just the snippets of her have.raised this train wreck to incredible heights.

I was trying to place Leslie Bibb then realized she was the star of "GCB in the early 2000's, which has a lot of the same vibe that Palm Royale has.

The other saving grace for PR is that they nailed the atmosphere perfectly.

I don't know if I care to watch the rest of the series. I REALLY wanted to like Palm Royale, but after three episodes, am finding the dialog and plot to be just annoyingly bad. Not entirely a Kristen Wiig fan. When she goes out of swimlane (comedy), she really falls out of her element (WW84), and she is woefully out of her element here.

I am giving it 4 stars for Ricky in a bathing suit, Allison, Julia and Carol, but... that's about it.

It's raining. I am in my jammies. Decided to give the new CBS series "Elsbeth" a view. Quirky? Check. But the show reminded me of the 1970's anthology series like "Columbo", "Banacek", "The Snoop Sisters", etc. Where our star has 37 minutes to solve the crime the guest star committed in the opening sequence. You KNOW they will, just a matter of how. The plot telegraphed the final scene from the beginning. I had a problem with two aspects of the plot; one - the NYC police were just too nice. Two - if Elsbeth is a installed by the DoJ, why would it be the Chicago office that sends her there? Would that not be out of the lower district court of Manhattan? That made no sense.

It was an amusing show to watch; don't know if I will become addicted to it much like Tony Shalhoub as "Monk". .I don't expect Elsbeth to be around too long.

This is right up there with last two Thor movies and Guardians of the Galaxy III as one of the worst MCU movies to come out... ever. Yes, we sat through the whole train wreck of a plot. Every time a character spouted "What is going on here?!?!" we asked the same question back at the screen.

What a shame that this is the sequel to an otherwise interesting entry in the franchise. The first "Captain Marvel" was an intriguing plot that had us rooting for Danvers throughout, plus it had the credit montage to honor the passing of the late Stan Lee. Where the first entry in this franchise had a good, strong feminist bent to it, this sequel had none of that; just over the top, cringe-worthy bludgeoning squeaks of "Girl Power!". I guess that Disney was going after the 12-15yo female demographic?

The story made no sense. The plot was just... all over the map.

When Michael Keaton and Jeremy Irons were on the screen, the movie felt like something. We loved seeing Keaton in the Bat suit again!

Ezra Miller was actually quite adept at portraying both himself and the younger, different universe version of himself, although the ongoing bewilderment of Barry-younger became quite annoying after several scenes, who ever came up with the concept of his laughter needs to be drummed out of Hollywood. The humor was also very juvenile - it reminded me of everything out of the Spiderman plot lines.

The CGI was just WAY too heavy - headache inducing and very hard to follow.

This movie was produced by the same folks who brought us "Old Guard"; a slick action flick with a female empowered lead. "Heart of Stone" follows the same formula, and in this case, Gal Gadot superbly rises to the challenge as the lead. Slick CGI, great plot, incredible energy throughout. It was "Wonder Woman" with blood and bruises (along with a nod to WW in the tail light applique of the motorcycle she is speeding over Iceland on). Charlie Hunan is good as the heavy.

Unlike many action flicks that just use the action to move the plot along, "Heart of Stone" actually ties the characters together; there were no gaps, no "How did they get to that point?".

An enjoyable romp; certainly set up for a sequel.

We watched the movie from end to end and really did not find ourselves feeling anything for the characters. GREAT ensemble of actors, but they just could not rise above the very busy plot that was more or less a riff off "Mandolorian" and every Star Wars plot point. Good bad guy finds he needs to protect the kid while the rebel forces work to destroy the Death Star. (sigh).

Too many issues with continuity, too. The lead character has prosthetics that look mechanical in once scene, then no prosthetics, then human arms and legs, then prosthetics again. Then someone gets blown up, but they are still alive. Then shot. Then alive again. Then blown up... then... And the female protagonist from the beginning is having a baby, but wait, she's a robot, but wait her head is solid, yet the robots have these servo-holes in their skulls, then she has one, but wait, nope, it's not in the next scene. I gave up on trying to keep up with those plot points.

We were both confuse and bored out of our minds, though Ken Watanabe and Allison Janney are always great.

We were glad to see the movie end, but just never felt like we were cheering for anyone. Just glad to be able to turn the mess off.

For a society already living with full-on anxiety of a Conservative destruction of our democracy comes this little nugget of depression about how America fails hard in the coming years. Yeah. Unlike "Don't Look Up", there was no underlying message here, no empathy, no humor, only a downward spiral into the realization that America was over. Again, yeah. Happy thoughts... Produced by Barack and Michelle Obama, I was expecting more; something with a stronger ray of optimism other than watching the "Friends" series finale in the comfort of a nuclear bomb shelter. Hell, even the series "Falling Skies" offered more hope.

There is just too much... turmoil... on our planet, in our politics, in our society. Do we really need to watch another view on anarchy?

Bradley Cooper does a marvelous job of capturing the look of Maestro Leonard Bernstein, however, if you are coming to "Maestro" looking for the music, that is far and few between. We see very little of his process; of Bernstein creating music, of his genesis for the great works he composed throughout his lifetime. What we got was a story of how epically bisexual he was, how much he openly dallied with men while married to a women and raising children. How he discovered cocaine and we are led to believe, from the awful editing of the movie, that his dalliance in cocaine gave him that frantic and much loved persona at the podium. And the ever present cigarette. In every scene. Continuous.

This movie does, in no way, diminish my love and appreciation of Bernstein. Although it came with the imprimatur of his children, the story just does not feel whole nor complete. So much feels missing.

Pleased to learn that Aaron Copeland was his contemporary. I did not know that! A lot of exceptional music had come out of his generation.

When the previews for "Wonka" first arrived, I knew instantly that I needed to see it. "Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory" was a childhood favorite of mine. This movie did not disappoint!

Paul King and Simon Farnby did an exceptional job crafting the genesis story of Willie Wonka with wonderful homage to the Gene Wilder orginal. Timothee Chalamet is superb as the young Willy, and he actually can sing and dance! Bringing me to the music! The numbers were great; superb lyrics and execution. Bonus: MR. CARSON (Jim Carter) SINGS!!! (Downton Abby). Loved the story, loved the characters. Calah Lane as "Noodle" is incredible! Great casting all the way around!

And I have to admit that when Wonka sings "Pure Imagination", it brought a tear to my eye.

Loved it. With all of my 62 year old heart, I loved it.

I am over this faux "teen-age angst" plot line. Done with it. Pointless.

And I get it - this is a series about "titans" - Godzialla-sized monsters that are hidden on Earth. I get it. Let got of any sense of reality. But come on... three angst-riddled psudo-teenagers roaming the Alaskan ice pack, in a snow storm, dressed like they just buzzed through the GAP at the local mall for winter apparel with nary a concern for hats, gloves, goggles, etc. Then to dump them out in a blizzard. I'm sorry, none of that scales for me.

The dialog is horrible, the only saving grace seems to be in the "Monster of the Week". I just hope whatever wakes up, wakes up hungry. Eat the kids first.

"Dial of Destiny" has all of the charisma of the post George Lucas Star Wars installments. Lots of flash, lots of action but very, very little atmosphere or depth. When Stephen Spielberg did the first series of Indiana Jones movies, he carefully blocked the scenes using camera angles akin to the film noir that he was paying homage to. Low angles, shadows, zooming, not to mention SWEAT. His hero always has a bead of sweat when he was in the throes of the action. All of that was missing from this (last?) installment. The action and cameras were flat and incredibly redundant, the pacing was horrible and it has none of the charisma that pulled us into the beginning of the series. And Indiana Jones, other than looking the 80 years old that Harrison Ford is, never broke a sweat in any of the action. That must be some powerful antiperspirant he got on...

It was a shame that the John Williams music also seemed...uninspiring. Flat. Like something that has been played to death on the local Classical Radio station.

What we were left with is just a somewhat nice coda to an erstwhile adventure series. In honesty, it was nice to see Harrison Ford, Karen Allen, John Rys-Davies, all permitted to age. Would have been nice to see MORE of the later two other than the limited scenes.

Wow... did this series go off the rails in this "final" season. We're about 4 episodes in and have just become so annoyed with the series. I feel like I am watching "Groundhog Day" where Sam and Dean have been stuck in the same loop with the same plot with the same action, over and over and over again. The writers well certainly ran dry on original idea.

This final season could have been SO much better; in the last two episodes of the prior season, we see Mary allow Jack to use his powers to overcome Lucifer, then he gets all "You should not have done that!" on him, and he flares out and kills her. That was just BS. And absolute stupid plot twist that then justifies the pent up anger in Dean (another stupid BS plot vehicle).

How is SHOULD have gone down was that Jack took out Lucifer alone, Mary lives. Just as everyone is happy, Chuck shows up and opens up the apocalypse. This last season should have been about Jack battling with Chuck, with help from the Winchesters, to take over heaven. But no. We're stuck in this absolute, stupid, archaically written plot of them refighting all the deamons they battled in the series.

Oh please.

It's nice to watch a horror show that doesn't bludgeon you over the the head with blood and gore, blood and gore, blood and gore, but subtly builds to that moment of terror.

I read several blogs about the show and was intrigued. I love Bruce Greenwood ("Pike" from the JJ Abrams "Star Trek" franchise) and Mark Hamil ("Luke Skywalker"), both well seasoned for the roles of the family patriarch and family attorney.

The first episode was, indeed, intriguing. Appropriate flashbacks to establish plot points that did not seem disconnected. The death of the mother, the murder of her lecherous boss, her corpse wandering around the family home. THAT was spellbinding and finely interwoven into the story. When her essence moves in the background, I jumped!

Looking forward to watching the rest of the series!

I know that by the 11 season of the previous Frasier series, it had grown quite stale, and it was about time for it to conclude.

This new series feels like it has a lot of the same underpinnings, yet it is refreshing. Kelsey Grammer has finely aged the character and there is no pretense that this picks up exactly where the old left off. Excellent mix of characters and a mix of crisp dialog and some rather remarkable slapstick. It took a few clicks for the first episode to find a footing, but once it did, it just took off.

.Anders Keith feels quite adept with the physical comedy as Niles and Daphne's son, David, tagging along with Uncle Frasier.

Very touching tributes in the pilot to both Martin Crane and John Mahoney.

I wish the series well!