Review – Quoth The Raven, “Netflix!” (“The Pale Blue Eye”)

Adapted from Louis Bayard’s 2003 novel, this Netflix-exclusive movie is written & directed by Scott Cooper, who has given us the bizarre movies Antlers, Hostiles, and Crazy Heart. And since this is about Batman meeting Dudley Dursely, I’d say that’s about right.  In the deadly winter’s chill of 1830, retired veteran detective Augustus Landor (Christian…

Review – Denial On The Nile (“Death on the Nile”)

No sooner did Kenneth Branagh’s 2017 hit movie, Murder on the Orient Express, leave theaters than this movie went into production. Fortunately, all filming wrapped in 2019 before the accursed events of 2020. Unfortunately, his lead actor, Armie Hammer, was accused of sexual abuse, but his scenes were neither reshot, cut, nor CGI’d like other…