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Dangerous Snow Day (2021)
Lifetime has a low bar to begin with....
But this movie really hit bottom. I have been loving bad Lifetime movies since the 90s, at least back then they had actual tv actors that you knew and a lot of based on real stories. I feel that most of their movies now are pretty bad, but there are a few gems.
This movie like all their others starts with a good idea and you can get through some of the annoying stuff and have fun watching these fun romps. Not this one. Both the writing and acting were equally awful. I don't even think good acting could have saved this predictable clunker. This is the first time I had to force myself to sit through the whole movie. I guess the one plus was minimal vocal fry?
A Murder to Remember (2020)
Awful
This is based on a true story and had already been made into a movie in 1983 (The Awakening of Candra). That movie wasn't the greatest but is an 11 compared to this version. The writing and direction are bad and some actors over act making it silly then horror like at times. This wasn't silly subject. What Candra went through was horrible.
It seems as though the director was going for ant arty effect and it just felt off because it was based on actual events. Those events were passed over for fluff.
This movie fell apart at the end, which is weird considering they absolutely could have ended with the actual story.
Mind Over Murder (2022)
Great until.....
This is a really sad but interesting case in a town full of characters. I like how the victim is not lost. We get to meet her through old movies, tape recordings, and family members.
The only draw back to this documentary is the intermingling of the actual case and the side project play and it's actors. While watching it feels as if it/they are completely unnecessary and only serve to drag this doc out, but stick it out because it all collides in ep 6.
It is mind blowing how badly this case was handled. So many people drug through the mud and a family left with wrong answers and so much grief all for one guys ego.
The Unsolved Murder of Beverly Lynn Smith (2022)
Worth a watch
What a story. I think this could have been done with fewer episodes and not so much repetition. The case itself is interesting with twists and turns and kooky characters, but in the end there was no resolution. This is fine if they were just trying to bring a cold case to light and get some justice.
It also felt as if the family and others were all holding back information. This could have been the fault of the doc makers though.
I do suggest watching it if you like true crime and unsolved crimes.
Cold Squad (1998)
Worth the watch...kinda
I used to catch this late night on an off channel in the USA. I loved it, but never got to watch it as a whole series. I noticed it was on HULU and decided it would be a good binge after CSI. I was wrong!
The first two seasons are charming. You have all the usual characters and good cold case files they solve. While not every character was great they made a few of them really unlikable towards the end of season 2. They even had to do the whole lead character who is tough as nails falls for her superior bs.
Season three came around and it was utter crap. They got rid of most of the characters, glammed up or shall I say Hollywooded the set and characters, and it all revolved around their personal lives and IA investigations. Seriously 6 episodes into season three and you can't recall if they've actually worked a cold case.
I don't even know how to rate it because I really enjoyed the first two seasons, but the rest blah.
Keeper of the Ashes: The Oklahoma Girl Scout Murders (2022)
Such an Important Story but....
This story rings in the back of the minds for countless girls who were the ages of these girls, their parents, and so many more. It was a vicious, senseless crime that needs solving. It could have been solved many years ago if it weren't for the deplorable actions of the DA and certain local media making one of the suspects a hero.
Watching the old footage and hearing from the families of the young victims was hard, but necessary. They put things, times, places, feelings etc. Into perspective. Had this not been done I think we would have lost the victims once again because of the performative actions of an actress needing attention and making it all about herself and her feelings and all the good she does back home.
She talked about only maybe saying hi to the one girl that she attended school with and oh yeah this girls mother was her brothers teacher once. She talks about what a monster the camp had been in her mind for years. Oh and of course how she was totally going to go to camp that summer but got sick. A couple things that don't ring true with this in the 70s you didn't just get to go to Girl Scout Camp without actually being a Girl Scout. You also didn't earn badges at GS camp back then. I question that she was ever a girl scout because that right there would have made her quite possibly in the same troop as Michelle Guses. I found it odd that she had no photos of her as a Girl Scout or Brownie. She then clearly admitted that she had never even been to the camp ever. The only connection she had to this was it happened close to her home town and their was an acquaintance murdered. I don't know why Hulu gave her so much screen time. It came off as self serving and pathetic.
I hope that one day soon for the sake of the families this case can be closed and they can finally breath.
Captive Audience (2022)
Great story, poorly executed!
This could have been an incredible dive into the story of both Steven and Cary Stayner told through the voices of those around them, both friends/family and media. In lieu of researching and discussing their lives before, during. And after their tragedies they interspersed the fictional movie based on Stevens kidnapping through out. They even got the two actors (from the movie) to read interviews of the brothers, when it would have been more moving to have played the actual tapes of the transcripts they were reading, regardless of the quality. There is no dive into what made Cary tick and it is a story. The family members who spoke were basically used to pump this doc up when if they would have been asked the right questions it would have been really amazing. They also left so much out of what happened in both cases and omitted people and facts that should have been discussed.
In the end this is like watching a movie based on a wikipedia entry from someone who heard about it from a friend.
Nocturne (2020)
Could have been so much more
With all that needed (or seemed to be) unpacked in this movie, it just never tied together all the integral parts. It took a lot of time introducing us to various people, problems, etc., only to have it boil down to simple sibling rivalry. That would have been fine had they set it up and took us home, instead they just kept taking turn after turn and then hit us with nothing. It's too bad because the feel and direction of the movie were great.
Sharp Objects (2018)
Toxic relationships smorgasbord.
They really did Gillian Flynn. Right with this series version of her book. She writes compelling and twisted stories and they brought it to life. Amy Adams, Patricia Clarkson, & Eliza Scanlen do not disappoint. It is well written, executed beautifully, and is visually stunning. Definitely worth the watch.
Evil Eye (2020)
Descent watch
I always love a good reincarnation movie. This was a pretty clever variation of an trope, but somewhere along the line it kinda fell flat. Might have been too slow moving for me. It seems like recently movies love to drag out the story without giving the viewer anything to fill in the space but boring character conversations, random scenes, and landscape shots. This movie could have been so much more.
If I Stay (2014)
Moving and bittersweet
This movie could have taken a turn for the worse, as many book to film movies do, but it didn't. The scenery was gorgeous and the characters were fun. The movie had so many emotions and relationships running through it that were clear and not muddled. You really felt like you knew this family and its quirks while watching it. With so much devastation came a lot of love.
The Lie (2018)
Nice twist!
Teenagers can be a handful and boy do you learn it here. It really shows how at that age everything is about them without taking into consideration the consequences of their actions. It shows how one lie can take on a whole new life involving other people and come crashing down fast like dominos. The feel of this movie was fabulous.
Why Women Kill (2019)
Thoroughly enjoyable.
The premise of this show was unique and kept it moving along. You never had a chance to get bored with any character because the pace of the show kept bringing new bits and pieces into play. So many other shows that take on the 60s-80s go so overboard with their idea of what those decades were that they make a mockery out of them, this show on the other hand did a great job with design, vocabulary, and wardrobe. The writing was great and the characters were fun. The actors nailed their parts. I am looking forward to season 2.
Frances Ferguson (2019)
Boring and poorly executed.
This movie could have been a decent watch except it wasn't. The subject matter was something to not be taken so lightly in this day and age. I can imagine if the main character had been a male people would have been outraged by the flippant bored lead character. The actors in the movie were fine, they did the job they were given, but not a lot to work with. If this was supposed to be a character study it was so poorly executed that it missed the mark entirely. The humor wasn't funny dry, it was flat. The whole thing reminded me of a teenager trying really hard to write something edgy without understanding what in fact edgy is.