TheFearmakers

Ugh, here we go, another anti billionaire thing, which has happened since Trump was reelected... Funny because the democrat mayor of Chicago, a billionaire, and George Soros, and just about anyone who has the power to hire these multi-multi-millionaire actors... are billionaires, and that's okay...

Suddenly multi-multi millionaires can act like working class since they're not billionaires... but to working class people, multi-multi millionaires have more in common with...

Okay, enough of that... This season is starting off slow, and not interesting, after a pretty good cold opening concerning a cheating husband and a cute girl in a bar...

The first season was a surprisingly good show, where Ted Danson plays private-eye in an old folks' home, a hybrid of Cocoon and Columbo, and there was both a point and purpose as the location and characters all connected...

But here, involving a billionaire practically running a college who has stolen a laptop of some importance, has Danson undercover as a guest lecturer at the college, and it's just no fun, the scenes drag, it's all too broad and vague, and he has no chemistry with real life wife Mary Steenburgen... it was more fun last season arguing with Sally Struthers...

So, anyway, let's see now...

Steven Spieberg; David Geffen; and any and all owners of movie studios, including Amazon and yes, Netflix, who are friends of all these actors and writers and, um...

Let's just stop with hating billionaires, Hollywood, until you STOP creating them.

Grant Williams, with an unassumingly skinny frame, All-American blond hair and soft voice, is perfect for science-fiction as he passively allows strange things to happen around him... even when vanishing into thin air for THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING MAN, and, here as a small town cop, he's partnered with a old scientist to figure out how giant monoliths are growing out of the earth...

Which eventually look fantastic as they crash into a raging river... but these titular MONOLITH MONSTERS never seem that formidable, and are more dangerous in semi-suspenseful scenes leading up...

Initially/mysteriously killing a townsman before hypnotizing a chaste little girl, who extremely gorgeous ingenue Lola Albright is connected to... waiting nervously to see how things pan out...

Which ends up a forgotten THEM-like plot-point in a mostly dialogue/exposition-driven science-fiction that (despite good acting and grim, ultra-serious narration by Orson Welles store-brand announcer Paul Frees) should have had co-writer Jack Arnold as director.

The final Cannon production starring Charles Bronson couldn't be more of an exploitation flick (surpassing even DEATH WISH 2), spending more time on the underage victims of a sleazy pimp than Bronson and detective partner Perry Lopez are trying to figure things out...

In the strangely titled KINJITE: FORBIDDEN SECRETS that initially/ironically involves a sex-obsessed Japanese father whose daughter (Kumiko Hayakawa) winds up one the youngest, most vulnerable victims of an underground sex-slave market...

Opening with blonde starlet Nicole Eggert as the most experienced, the actual leading young-lady's Amy Hathaway, even blonder, cuter and who just so happens to be Bronson's daughter, on the verge of the neon-noir-inspired criminal web led by CROCODILE DUNDEE II villain Juan Fernández...

Perhaps one of the sleaziest villains in Bronson cinema... providing the usual gun-blasting DEATH WISH-style vengeance that happens far too late to matter: overall making KINJITE more glossy expose than edgy crime-thriller.