I’ve come to hate reality TV, and by now I’m about half sick of cooking shows. So I’m trying to decide why I’m such a big fan of “The Great British Baking Show.” I’d say it was the British accents, for which I’m a sucker — but then Gordon Ramsay has one and his […]
A classic and a clunker
Hulu finally got all the “Seinfeld” episodes. For the past week I’ve been watching a couple at a time, grazing through the seasons in hopes of finding one I may have missed. I’m starting to think I didn’t miss any — except for the notorious finale, which I still haven’t seen, lo, these 17 […]
‘Blue Ruin’ rules
Just when you conclude that the Netflix movie catalog really is a steaming pile of two-star manure, you stumble across a gem. That’s what I discovered tonight in “Blue Ruin,” a taut, lean revenge thriller that defies everything you might expect from this sort of film. For starters, it stars nobody you’ve ever heard […]
Hancock, we hardly knew ye
Yesterday I sent the movie Hancock back to Netflix unwatched. Sorry, Will. But I’ve had it laying around here for about a month and the time just never seemed right to spend two hours with a surly superhero. It appears Knadler’s Law applies to Netflix movies the same way it applies to things decomposing […]