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Showing posts with label Netflix. Show all posts

TV Review: Echoes on Netflix

 

Title: Title: Echoes

Genre: Thriller

Release Date: August 19th, 2022

My Rating: ★★☆☆☆

IMDB Rating: 5.9/10

Cast: Michelle Monaghan, Matt Bomer, Karen Robinson

Watch On: Netflix

 

Summary from IMDB: 

Leni and Gina are identical twins who have secretly swapped their lives since they were children, culminating in a double life as adults, but one of the sisters goes missing and everything in their perfectly schemed world turns into chaos.

 

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Review:

Have you ever been so invested in a show that you binge the entire series in one day, forgetting about all your adult responsibilities, only to be epically let down in the final moments?

The complexities of this show were really intriguing in the beginning. We follow Gina, or who we think is Gina as we unravel an odd truth that the twins have been switching lives every year for as long as they could remember. To top off that realization, Leni is missing... or is it Gina... Who knows at this point.

Half way through the season, the point of view is switched to the other twin, Leni. This is where things start to become jumbled and the weave of the story is so tangled its hard to keep things straight. Who is who? Is it really Gina playing Leni, or vis versa? Even with all of this confusion going on, I was still invested until the end, because I had to know who the psycho twin was.

The final episode was were it all went wrong. A good story is supposed to wrap things up, or leave the reader's mind blow with a truth so horrendous you can't think for days, but this story seemed to continue with the confusion long after the end. The twins are still out there causing mayhem and stalking people. At this point, it was all too much as my mind had been on high alert for the entire seven episode series and there were never any instances where I felt a resting point where things made sense and were calm.

If the story had ended at episode six I would have given this series five out of five stars, but that ending was trash.


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Movie Review: Spiderhead

 

Title: Spiderhead

Genre: Drama

Release Date: June 11th, 2022 

My Rating: ★★★★☆

IMDB Rating: 5.4/10

Cast: Chris Hemsworth, Miles Teller

Watch On: Netflix

 

Summary from IMDB: 

In the near future, convicts are offered the chance to volunteer as medical subjects to shorten their sentence. One such subject for a new drug capable of generating feelings of love begins questioning the reality of his emotions.

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Review:

I think only true readers would appreciate this odd movie. Spiderhead is a twisted tale of science over humanity and the obsession with the idea of a better world.

The original short story is definitely worth reading if you don't mind a little sex for the sake of science, of course. The movie itself, its a bit on the dark side and seems a little slow at first. This can be overlooked when the story starts heating up and the realization of what is really going on starts to come into play.

I loved the new edition of the love stories between two of the inmates. This is different from the short story. It really brings a human feel into the story. Also, the strange friendship/not friendship Hemsworth and Teller create throughout the movie is a little cringe worthy, but so worth it.

And lets talk about the actors. Chris Hemsworth is impeccable of course. He's great at whatever he does these days and I'm a big fan. Miles Teller is really coming up in my lists and did an incredible job holding the story together.

This was a nice afternoon watch while folding laundry.
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Documentary Review: Downfall: The Case Against Boeing

Title: Downfall: The Case Against Boeing

Genre: Documentary

Release Date: 2022

My Rating: ★★★★☆

IMDB Rating: 7.4/10

Watch On: Netflix

 

Summary from IMDB: 

Examining the months since the tragedies, which caused global panic in March 2019 after two new aircrafts crashed within five months, killing 346 people.

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Review:

I'm not a fan of flying. Never have been, probably never will. This documentary shines a light on one of the worlds largest plane manufacturers and the greed that follows them.

When an issue with one of Boeings most popular planes becomes deadly, the world now looks into who's to blame. Boeing? Surely not, they would never let anything put people in danger. The Pilot? That must be it. People make mistakes under pressure. But what if it was something more sinister than that?

Throughout the documentary, evidence is uncovered that shows Boeing had knowledge of the fault in their planes, but it was brushed under the rug for little more than profit. Even after more lives are lost, they still denied the facts. Shocking?

This was an informative and eye opening documentary to watch on Netflix.

 

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