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Im only 2 episodes into the series, which I'll call, *Breaking Bad UK" in the NCIS Miami sense of the word. A desperate situation confronta a young man with a good heart, a new inheritance, a bad brother, and an unwitting woman drug dealer as his new partner. Like in the original series, everything gets just a little bit WORSE at the end of every episode, with plenty of dark humor and incompetence & drug dealers mixed in! Giancarlo Esposito - the world's #1 bad guy - "gus" in breaking bad - also stars and I'm sure they have something diabolical planned for him! Overall, if you don't get too invested in any side characters (who will be obviously expendible) and roll with the punches and irony and sutuation stupidity (a form of situation comedy) I think you'll enjoy this ride!

I know nothing of Guy Ritchie. This isn't as as smart or as good as Money Heist from Spain but its still worth a watch!

Seven strangers wake up on a plane with the pilots locked away in the cockpit and nobody remembers being drugged or kidnapped to get them there. The plot begins to unfold when one passenger finds that his phone was not confiscated and he is able to communicate with norad on the ground ...

This was undoubtedly the inspiration for the highly successful SyFy Channel series "Dark Matter" two years later. The lead actor, Anthony Montgomery as Cole, does a really outstanding job of holding this $42,000 low budget romp together. Think "Blair Witch" budget film, with less camera shake ... It plays - mostly - like a movie costing 100x more, until the very end of their mysterious flight ...

This is a 1950's comedy set in 2020 with a 3-season arc. Think of "Leave it to Beaver", or "The Dick Van Dyke Show" or "My three Sons" with a longterm direction and plot. It doesn't lampoon peoples' foibles (like the Dick Van Dyke Show & its remake, Seinfeld), nor does it live in the overly idealized world of "Leave it to Beaver" - it has an impossible-to-explain premise but is actually more grounded in reality than any of these other shows.

Ted Lasso is an impossibly positive leader who comes to work at an English Football club knowing nothing of English Football. Just about everyone wants him to fail but he slowly wins them over with charm, kindness, and charisma at a world-class level. The story is enough to make me believe in the "Great Man" theory (that a series of "Great Men" or players actually steer history all by themselves). The comedy is first rate - competitive with "The IT Crowd" even though it's an American sitcom developed by the SNL player/writer, the Ted Lasso actor himself, Jason Sudeikis. The show is funny but its filled with so many lessons about life and humanity you get the feeling that every episode is making history - like the moon landing - it's just profound, every episode is ... profound.

There are very few serial shows where you know - after just 2 episodes - it will be among your top-5 shows for all time. For me, they are: Breaking Bad, House, Mr. Robot, Star Trek:TOS, and now, Ted Lasso. Something old and something new ....

I cannot fathrom the paltry ratings score (8.3) - when I saw this episode I thought "OMG I'm going to have to assess this episode's position among my top-3 favorite ST:TOS episodes of all time!"

Spock and Chapel pilot a shuttle through a temporal vortex where they crash and are healed by all-powerful aliens, changing their relationship, just as the time comes for Spock and T'pring to hold a marriage ritual with their parents. The difficulty is that Spock is too injured to carry out the ritual successfully, but cannot delay the ritual without losing his prospects for marriage!

The writing has a tenderness on the level of "City on the Edge of Forever" combined with humor on the level of "The Trouble with Tribbles". I kept waiting for the writers to botch something but when the episode closed I realized it had been written with perfection!

I was going to cancel our subscription to Paramount+ but now I'm in for the balance of the entirety season 2!

This movie is overrated. Yes the animation is fantastic and there are some dramatic posing scenes including the ending that are among the best I have seen in any movie in my 55+ years of movie attendence... However the plot is very poorly assembled - the motivations of the characters are not fully known and one of the primary quests of the hero does not get assigned until 2/3 of the way through the movie which is just very very sloppy writing! The relationship between the teenagers and their parents is very important but there are no establishing scenes for this and it is very stereotypical and badly done! My favorite Spider-Man movies are the first animated spider-verse movie and Spider-Man 2 so I don't think I am abnormal among Spider-Man fans I've been reading Spider-Man comic books since I was six but have not read the spider-verse ones. Also I was really upset not to see spider pig, one of my favorite characters from the first movie! And there is one particular fight scene 2/3 the way through the movie that just drags on and on and on it's like avengers Infinity war where you get the message 20 minutes of the movie then no matter what Thanos always wins in this movie so why torture the audience for 30 minutes with his fight scene? I myself got bored and was going to go to the restroom and then come to find out this is a two-part movie and they were just stretching the story to make space for an early ending without satisfying the hero's journey! So actually I rate it 10+ for animation but 4+ for story and that averages out to 7.

This show has a TON of references to all the previous actors who have ever played : The Flash, Batman, Superman, Supergirl, etc. Some of them ( Nicholas Cage, cancelled in a Tim Burton superman movie ) will amaze you! If you are not a longstanding fan of the Flash or Superman, those will go over your head and you will not appreciate some important fan-service for Baby Boomers in this movie.

I am a huge fan of "The Flash" on CW and worried that the movie-version would not equal the TV show, but Ezra miller in a tour-de-force takes the top-2 billings in this movie and probably has 4.5 hours of screen time in this film, all worthy of the subject material and his performance is excellent.

I sure for his sake and for our sake his personal life can calm down so we can continue to see him in future sequels!

Barry Allen travels back in time to bring his mother back to life, and things go awry from there. After exploring hundreds of alternative solutions to allow his mom and the Earth to exist in the same timeline, the consequent solution is achieved. I didn't expect to cry in this movie but it was really an extraordinary moment and it was one of 3 times I have cried in my life.

The movie ends much like the slow-mo beginning of "Deadpool" and the price of admission is earned instantly in this short 60-seconds scene.

I loved it.

A family faces the worst fate when their pilot passes away just minutes after takeoff in Florida with stormy weather everywhere around their dual engine plane. Lots of blending of CGI and actual fuselage shots can take the viewer inside the plane during the flight, and back out again.

Dennis Quaid and the other actors are great.

Over dramatized but a true story with a message and a feel-good movie worth watching! It's not common for a true story to be this well told with a message. If the schlockyness bothers you it's a 5 but if you can see past the extra heavy barbecue sauce slathered all over this story it's an 8 or a 9!

I really enjoyed reading the outcomes of this story at the end.

Rocketry: The Nambi Effect is a story of one of India's most famous rocket scientists, Nambi Narayanan. Nambi goes to America to study at Princeton, then organizes a program where India helps France to develop the Arianne rocket engines, then oversees the development of the Vikas engine, India's crowning achievement in liquid-fuel propulsion. But when he reaches for a cryogenic technology, in an attempt to buy the technology from Russia, he is attacked by local police and his career is ruined for almost a decade by Foreign interference.

What many people might not understand is that this is a movie about corruption in India. India does not have a strong legal system. India's legal system cannot protect its best and brightest and most patriotic scientists. With a small bribe, India's greatest rocket scientist has his life ruined, and an entire industry of commercial satellite launches was so easily destroyed. I have many Indian friends who have "escaped" to North America. Let this movie be a lesson to everyone. Until you reform your legal system and clean up the corruption, you will be a puppet to foreign powers. If you don't produce these reforms, India will trail the rest of the world in technology, forever. Your best and brightest will leave India to gain the security that they deserve! The choice is up to you, India!

This is a great - but totally silly - effort at a movie. "What if you sent your son out to shoot a bear but instead he goes after the biggest game trophy on the planet?" From the moment I understood the idea of the movie I was placed in suspense for how would they carry this off? There are many scenes that are a stretch and none of the skullduggery is explained but I enjoyed it immensely. Samuel Jackson is totally out of character here, playing a meek, timid, chicken POTUS - a nice contrast to his career up until now. There are some refrigerator-sized surprises in this movie that kept it entertaining in a tongue-and-cheek sort of way. There is even a message about what it means to be a man and the difference between acting tough and being tough. A great way to spend your evening!

The crew is kidnapped by a space nebula and everyone is placed in a fairytale setting aboard the enterprise. The goal is to stimulate the imagination of the doctor's child, supervised by the space nebula.

I hated this episode. It's the first episode of any star trek EVER where I kept pausing the playback, thinking, "this is so boring ... when will it end?"

I am pretty sure the actors would enjoy making this episode because it gives most of them a chance to dress up and do a quasi-shakespearean play (except with much less plot). The episode really shows who is a good actor when thrown into an unexpected role - -

• Babs Olusanmokeun (dr. Mbenga) he was wooden for most of this episode. He is an officer, a leader of the medical department. I expected more forcible delivery and more authority from his character. I imagine he realized that this episode was a stinker and probably had a hard time sustaining his energy through it ...

• Anson Mount (pike) did not do a very good job at being a chicken / subservient King's Regent. Many of his lines made me cringe because of his insincere and often-forced delivery.

• Rebecca Romijn (no. 1) was particularly wooden in this episode, about as wooden as Majel Barrett in the original ST:TOS pilot, which got her thrown off the show (except Roddenberry threw a wig on her and brought her back as Nurse Chapel and as the computer and later, as his wife.)

• Ethan Peck (spock) continues to do a bangup job as the strongest actor in ST:Strange New Worlds.

• I am annoyed with the extreme efforts to make Celia Rose (uhuru) star in this show. I didn't like her costume very much it was too silly in an ice-queen sort of way.

One way to save the show would have been to find a fairytale that everybody knows. But no. They just imagined a random fairytale so that nobody cares. Showing stills of your fake fairytale book didn't make me care. Also, why does every fake book page look like a ST:TOS character? That is just too farfetched to be believed.

I was very unhappy with this episode. The only savings grace was that they got rid of the doctor's daughter, in a very not-believable goodbye. They said goodbye and there was no embrace. I guess all of the writers are orphans? When you say goodbye to a family member - there is always an embrace. This episode has a lot of overlap with ST:TOS Companion. Whatever, I have once again lowered my expectations as a result of this show.

News is not "making up stuff that sounds news-y", just as Science fiction is not "making up stuff that sounds science-y". Science fiction is fiction written by scientists. Science fiction is fiction grounded in hard science. Jurassic park is grounded in hard science. Dinosaur DNA really can be trapped in amber, it can be extracted and sequenced, and with enough compute power and CRISPR, it can probably be reassembled back into the original DNA of a dinosaur and inserted into a modern bird egg. However, after 66 million years, the DNA strands are so short that we probably don't have enough DNA or the compute power or the algorithms to do it ... at least, not yet.

Now we come to the great many problems that plague ALL of the episodes of Star Trek : Strange New Worlds. The stories are written by non-scientists, and it's clear they don't even consult with scientists at all. Episode 9 contains a pretty serious plagiarism from the Alien movie series : a species that germinates inside another species. Also stolen is the idea that the species has acid for a bodily fluid. But this time, the great stupidity is, the bodily fluid is spit, and not only does the monster have acid for spit, the spit is also sperm, so they have acid for sperm and for spit. This stupid idea shows a great contempt for all science. It's as idiotic as giant tardigrades floating in outer space (ST:Discovery). To grow a zygote in acid is not something that any sensical scientist would ever imagine. It's not something that nature would evolve. It makes no sense because acid degrades DNA and damages tissues. It's simply a dumb idea.

And herein lies the problem with all of "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds". When Science appears, it's the cheapest badly-imagined science that only a low-budget writer pretending to understand science could imagine. It has no basis in fact and in all cases, cheapens the plot. For example, to blend on an alien planet, the ship's surgeon surgically alters everyone's face. Not just a little bit, but a WHOLE LOT. However, just by watching the TV show any idiot knows that a latex rubber mask would work just as well. Just scan their faces and materialize the masks in replicators and glue them on. An existence proof that it would work comes from watching the episode itself. Any rational scientist would recommend this as a superior solution to having two surgeries on ~6 members of the crew!

Another annoying thing about Episode #9 is that it is standard practice to outfit a landing party with standard equipment such as weapons and communications. All military parties with a military function going back 100 years have that, and all future military parties will have it, too. ALL. NO EXCEPTIONS. It is said that the planet's ionosphere interferes with communications. Well, that may be true over long distances but at small distances, it's just not possible - the RF power of the handsets will dominate. The writers need to learn how to work within the framework of actual military practice and physics if they want to write a show about a Starship with a military function.

An even more annoying thing about the episode is the lack of discipline of the captain. When the first survivor is found - a young girl - no important are answered before the doctor cuts off all communications. The captain is not involved, to pass judgement, because he has a command ability to override the doctor's decision. Any competent captain would field a decision on whether to interrogate the young girl and/or override the doctor. But no. Just no. In fact, the young girl, once again a plagiarism of the "Alien" movie, doesn't even need to appear in the episode because her character contributes nothing of value to the plot line. I half expected her to say, "It won't make a difference"; which was a tagline from the action-adventure movie "Alien 2" - I expected it because the plagiarism was everywhere.

One gets the impression that the writers are playing "hope chess" with the viewers. They are hoping that the viewers have never seen any science fiction stories before. This strategy is not a winning strategy - not in chess, and not in TV Dramas. Viewers who have watched science fiction before will see through the writer's charades and see that the writers are incapable of backing up their fiction with facts from actual science.

It is for this reason I give this episode a "2". I believe that most episodes do not rate much higher than "2".

This is a classic Canadian tale where the entire plot is driven by a need for public health care! I'm not saying it's bad but it's pretty funny (I am Canadian but raised entirely in the USA).

In some sense this is kind of an X-Men Canada movie, Stephen Amell (The Green Arrow on CW) plays second fiddle to Robert Amell (Ronnie in "The Flash" on CW) who is a mutant with electrical powers, exploited by a mob of bad guys in a future dominated by an evil drug called psyk which produces some sort of mental high (not explained or demonstrated in the movie). The quest to get this drug, sell this drug, and profit, or in some cases, get money to pay for your mom's healthcare, drives the plot. Production quality is high and action is quite good, characters are placed in morally challenged positions and act rationally and humanely where possible, and so this movie is 2 steps higher than your typical mindless action/adventure movie.

If you came to see a thriller with a tense hostage situation and brilliant twists and clever foreshadowing, you will probably be disappointed. There are too many plot holes to recommend this over "Die Hard" or "Die Harder".

If you came to see a patriotic action film where the Whitehouse and half of Washington DC gets destroyed and to marvel at how they got all this great footage, it will be an enjoyable romp! I watched it a second time just to see if I could pick out all the CGI sequences, the live-action sequences, and the mixtures.

Americans love to see our national symbols destroyed. We know the country will live forever in our hearts and minds; these things matter not to true patriots!

After 30 minutes I still could not tell you a single thing about the story or a single fact about a character and their back story. It's as if someone gave a middle school film maker $1m to do a homework assignment. I'm out.

There has NEVER been an 8-episode science fiction miniseries produced for television or in theaters. So what they are trying to do with this series is totally new. They are trying to sustain a story over 8 full-length 1-hr episodes. That works - partially - but doesn't work very well.

About the only way to sustain 8 episodes is to make the series a mystery story, and my recent view of "Stay Close" is a good example of how to do that very, very well. In "Stay Close" the character development is half the show, people have old relationships which are methodically revealed and new ones develop, and you are given 3 suspects on day one to ponder and the author does an excellent job of fingering the suspects one by one to confuse the viewer, and it ends tragically with not one but TWO twists. In a similar fashion "Dark Matter" concerns 8 people who wake up on a space ship with amnesia and they discover one of them is a traitor and the first season is gripping because everyone is trying to decide "who is the traitor and even more importantly, who are we?"

In "The Silent Sea" the characters are sent to the moon to recover samples from a derelict research station that had a severe accident 5Y ago and was destroyed. I don't know about you but I'm not going unless I get the lowdown on exactly what happened WTF? We as viewers don't! Sadly, the character development is severely lacking. There are flashbacks for the main character and her sister and the space commissioner, but that's about it. We would expect to have a traitor (after all each of Alien I and Alien II had a traitor) but there wasn't really a traitor, just incompetent or excessively rigid middle managers! The show is reduced to a series of shocking reveals - maybe 5 in total - but that cannot sustain a high level of interest and concentration over 8 episodes. It becomes a sort of "Towering Inferno" / "Poseidon Adventure" type of story - a story of attrition - but I'm not really sad to see anybody go because I'm getting impatient to see this end of this film.

Production quality is top-notch and I admire what they are trying to do, but the story genre just doesn't support 8 hours of mental concentration, and so the overall impression is that the story is just slow, almost annoyingly slow. The sci-fi is there but the drama is missing.

This is a superb story but it takes lots of concentration and you MUST NOT binge watch the first 5 episodes! I read a plot summary at episode #4 to make sure I understood everything!

The story is about Cassie / Megan - who escaped her life as a burlesque dancer, Ray - a former love interest who was left in the lurch, and Bloome - a police officer called to investigate a series of murders near the club where Cassie once worked. Everyone is a suspect in this dramatic thriller! This is a tragedy, a thriller, and has a dramatic twist in the last 2 minutes of the ending - don't miss it!

Based on an American best seller set near Atlantic City, this production in Blackpool UK is a really strong adaptation and all the actors are great!

The enterprise faces its toughest adversary ever, the Borg, headed towards earth. Captain Picard is captured, and each member of the crew becomes a hero in some way. Finally the borg are defeated when Picard is rescued and he informs Commander Data that the Borg is just a laptop and you need only close the lid! The borg go into sleep mode and begin recharging, but before the enterprise can respond, the Borg decide to self-destruct which unloads the writers from having to think of a creative ending of the episode! This episode was going to be a 10 until the last 15 minutes, whereupon it scored -14, leading to a time-weighted average of 2!

The first sex scene was at 6:25 and this is basically all you need to know about this piece of trash.

This film is shot in Ontario during a period where Canada was learning how to make dramatic high-violence films. It is a relatively high-budget film with excellent special demolition effects and high-performance military hardware used throughout the film. The plot is not that strong but the film is well executed. It is shot in the style of a 1970's USA action film (i.e. Dirty Harry), its not a 1990's-level film. There are a few minor continuity mistakes but that's okay. Carrie-Anne Moss and Mark Dacoscos do a good job executing a script which at best, is only slightly above average. The lead villain - Tony Todd - is excellent. Overall its a 9 on special effects and a 9 on acting, held back by a 6 on script quality. Unlike a Clint Eastwood film, though, the lead character isn't fleshed out and doesn't have catch phrases like Harry Callahan and there isn't a good love-interest in the story so the plot line is more anorexic than able-bodied.

All the actors are great and the story is interesting with a great premise. I have 5 minutes left in this movie to watch but I can't see why people are griping about it so very much. It's a story of the man looking for his daughter who is the kidnspped scientist behind a drug ring set to the Sci-Fi future where the drugs give human beings mutant powers of any animal depending on their genetics.

Interesting movie, but not very good. I guess it's a case study about how a reputation (Walter hill, writer / director) can help to recruit a n all-star cast, even if the movie is actually of direct-to-vidro quality ... Long live Alien, Aliens, Alien 3, Alien Covenant Avatar, etc.

Never have I seen a movie that made me more uncomfortable than this one! I wanted to leave the theater but I could not give up the chance to see how ended! The movie is kind of like a horror movie about a career in jewelry in New York City! The title depending about how you look at it is either about the subject of the movie or about the character of The anti-hero Howard Rather, played by Adam Sandler. Even if he never showed up the director deserves an academy award for casting Adam Sandler in this role, he is the best choice in American cinema today to play this role! I wanted to give it 10 stars because I respected the message and the emotion it brought out in me (something I never felt in movie before) but I never EVER want to see this movie again, so, 9 stars!

There is a certain type of movie goer today that want to see men in tights punching unbeatable Mary Sue Spacemen. This movie ain't for them! Please disregard their negative reviews!

Ad Astra tries to answer a question about how your opinion of your father guides your life. As I lost my father at age 13, I'd say the actors and writers basically nailed it. Most people will miss this point of the movie entirely, namely, the men in tights crowd ....

Faster paced than 2001 and Pitt nails the hero astronaut role he doesn't act like a Nashville singer in a spacesuit (interstellar).

I loved this film because the characters were well developed, especially Samara Weaving (the leading actress). In the first 10-15 mins of this film she plays the ideal babysitter, and you sit there saying, OMG why didn't I have a babysitter that cool and fun when I was a kid? Then the last 75 minutes they deconstruct here as she turns into the mastermind for a high school occult murder ring, but in this case, the 12 year old prevails against every adversary, killing every single one in a really funny way! I saw this twice, once with each of my sons, 17, and they both loved it!

This is my favorite silly horror movie of all time! Better than Night of, Dawn of, and Day of the Dead!

It's clearly a season three episode and it's downright boring.

People complain about the sets but the real place that they saved money was in the storyline. Gene L Coon wrote this stinker, and its like 10 other episodes where an omniscient being takes control of the enterprise landing party and decides to toy with them, until Captain Kirk (or get this ... this time it's SPOCK!) outwits them, right? Right? Right. And oh so wrong to keep recycling this tired plot idea over and and over and over and over and over again. Coon wrote some great episodes (Arena, A Taste of Armageddonm, Devil in the Dark), but this is probably the episode (Along with Coon's "Spock's Brain", and the Hippie Episode) that got the series cancelled.

I have a lot of trouble with the pacing of the last 20 minutes, the story is clearly being stretched and delayed to fill time, because at its heart, this is a 30-minute episode and the greatest Star Trek episodes struggled to squeeze everything into 50 minutes, leaving out inessential plot features, whereas this episode struggled to fit everything into 50 minutes, repeating things (kirk talking to every towns-person) and with long, slow, slow bits of non-drama.