Modern version of Romancing the Stone. If you have any idea what that movie is, you will likely appreciate this as much as you did that. Sandra Bullock is a romance novelist nee intellectual who is really an archaeologist and writing actual archaeology into her novels. When she finally has had enough, she is kidnapped by Harry Potter, and eventually rescued by Magic Mike (who was the cover model for her romance books). Mid-level romcom.
3 stars (out of 5)
Wow, this is bad. Bad script, bad CGI, clunky fight scenes, poorly delivered dialog with a contrived plot tension at the center. Sometime in the future, a fatal blood disease separates humans into two different species. A boy has been created with a blood pathogen that will either cure the disease, or kill all the people with the disease, or kill all the people without the disease (oh my, the tension). Normally I don't give movies that I have watched all the way through one star, but...
1 star (out of 5)
I apologize in advance to the true believers. I saw the first 1/3 of this movie... only. It was so brooding and talky and cliché that I found myself reading a book at the same time. So, I quit.
1 star (out of 5)
Season 2
Last season followed the high society Bridgerton's as eldest daughter Daphne was pursing marriage. This season it is eldest son Anthony, who is duty bound to marry and carry on the family name. And that duty bound nature becomes the theme of the season. Follow duty - or seek true love? The women of the family seem to think you have have both. Anthony is so repressed that he refuses to consider true love. The other boys are released from duty as "not the eldest" and so seek their passion as men of leisure. The love interests are a pair of sisters that represent these choices of love v duty, and at the same time mesh with the subplot involving Eloise and Penelope, starting an exploration of class (which I think is foreshadowing a main theme in a future season).
3 stars (out of 5)
Season 13
The latest tattoo reality season (the others) and this one has 20 artists divided into 4 geographical teams (west, east, south, midwest). The flash challenges are fun (really? glue bread on a wall, toast it with a torch, and show your artistry?). For this season, there really aren't any overly belligerent actors and there aren't any awful tattoos. So we get to see great artists competing to show the variety of their skill.
4 stars (out of 5)
