Reviews by TrekMedic

Horrifying, entrancing, and all-too-real. Knowing how the story ends didn't detract from WHAT went on during that flight. Paul Greengrass and the producers did a tremendous job piecing together a coherent story from all the second-hand accounts of the family and friends on board that doomed flight.

The British take on a damaged, conflicted, nose-to-the-grindstone beat detective. Really well done, even by BBC standards.

A Southern-fried version of "A Star is Born." Gwyneth Paltrow as a wash-up country singer just didn't look right, especially after all of her English romantic movies.

Why does this look like [Link removed - login to see] as a TV series, but without the tragic ending of the movie??

Oddly-paced moved. Semi-spoiler: this is NOT a biopic about Darwin's explorations or how he arrived at his theory of creationism. Rather, this is more about the struggles Darwin encountered within his own life as he tried to rationalize what his scientific training told him with his Christian upbringing and the then-prevailing ideas that all existed as God created them and spontaneous conversion (i.e. goose barnacles become barnacle geese). The driving factor here is Darwin's faith was shattered by the death of his young daughter (medicine still being more of an art than a science at the time). I walked away unimpressed.

As The Closer comes to an end, reflection dictates that we will remember the show, which started as summer filler, complete with a crazy-like-a-fox, fish-out-of-water protagonist, proved to be stronger than anyone ever gave it credit. And it helped launch the current creative excellence and dominance of cable television over the network trash (especially when the Big 4 seem hell-bent to show nothing but "reality shows" until the fall).

Why does this look like [Link removed - login to see] meets "Jersey Shore" and written by the Coen Brothers???

Ponderous, predictable, and loaded with tons of useless special effects. I actually fell asleep the first time I watched it!

Not a great movie, but Billy Crystal's homage to the early day of comedy TV, with a few thinly-veiled shots at some the early TV greats.

Probably one of the benchmarks of the mini-series genre and one of the best British-produced shows in television history. Some of the younger actors have gone on to have lengthy and significant careers in film and TV. I watch it anytime it gets aired on TV.