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Movie Review :: Lifetime Movie Network’s The Perfect Killer

March 1, 2025Chuck Duncan 1 Comment

You might need a map to navigate the twists and turns of ‘The Perfect Killer’… continue reading

★★, Home Viewing Ben Steele Caldwell, Crime, Drama, JaNae Armogan, Jason Reilly, Jean-Paul Najm, Kirsten Comerford, Laura Provenzano, Lifetime Movie Network, LMN, Lora Burke, Mystery, Sayla de Goede, The Perfect Killer, Thriller, Tonjha Richardson, Twisted Fate

Movie Review :: Lifetime Network’s My Amish Double Life

February 24, 2025Chuck Duncan Leave a Comment

This ‘Inspired by Actual Events’ thriller is better than it ought to be… continue reading

★★, Home Viewing Crime, Drama, Gary Modlish, Lesa Wilson, Lexi Minetree, Lifetime, My Amish Double Life, Nick Clark, Rachel Coopes, Thriller, Ty Trumbo

Movie Review :: Lifetime’s I Will Survive: The Gloria Gaynor Story

February 8, 2025Chuck Duncan

Lifetime’s Gloria Gaynor biopic isn’t quite the emotional rollercoaster we expected… continue reading

★★, Home Viewing Biography, Drama, Francesca Bianchi, I Will Survive: The Gloria Gaynor Story, Joaquina Kalukango, Lance Gross, Lifetime, Music, Pendo Muema, Voices of a Lifetime

Movie Review :: Lifetime Network’s Murder in Nashville

February 5, 2025Chuck Duncan Leave a Comment

Lifetime’s tawdry thriller shows misogyny is alive and well in the Deep South… continue reading

★★, Home Viewing Alex Bowling, Corbin Timbrook, Drama, Ellen B. Williams, Kate Dailey, Lifetime, Murder in Nashville, Mystery, Nick Puya, Sarah Zanotti, Thriller

Movie Review :: Lifetime Network’s Can You Feel the Beat: The Lisa Lisa Story

February 1, 2025Chuck Duncan 6 Comments

Lifetime gives us a Cliffs Notes version of the rise of the 1980s band… continue reading

★★, Home Viewing Biography, Bre-Z, Can You Feel the Beat: The Lisa Lisa Story, Donny Carrington, Drama, Eric Diaz, Giovanni Cristoff, Isaias Alexander Miranda, Jearnest Corchado, Lifetime, Lisa Velez, Matt Borlenghi, Music, Terence Williams, Voices of a Lifetime

Movie Review :: Lifetime Network’s Match, Meet, Murder

January 27, 2025Chuck Duncan 1 Comment

‘Match, Meet, Murder’ is a standard thriller with a few shock moments… continue reading

★★, Home Viewing Amanda Austin, Crime, Drama, Dutchess Cayetano, Erik Athavale, Jacob Blair, Lifetime, Lisa Marie DiGiacinto, Match Meet Murder, Matthew Stefanson, Stephanie Sy, Thriller, Yvonne Veraus

Movie Review :: Hallmark Channel’s The Perfect Setting

January 26, 2025Chuck Duncan 1 Comment

Hallmark leaves Argentina for Belgium for a pleasant but unremarkable romantic movie… continue reading

★★, Home Viewing David Elsendoorn, Drama, Hallmark Channel, Hallmark Plus, Hans Royaards, Jinesea Lewis, John Koensgen, Laci J. Mailey, Romance, Suzanne McKenney, The Perfect Setting, Winter Escape

Movie Review :: Lifetime’s Terror Comes Knocking: The Marcela Borges Story

January 12, 2025Chuck Duncan 6 Comments

Lifetime new ‘Ripped from the Headlines’ thriller is harrowing… continue reading

★★, Home Viewing Alessio Andrada, Crime, Dascha Polanco, Drama, Ivan Lopez, Johnathan Sousa, Lifetime, Marisa McIntyre, Marito Lopez, Mitchell Jaramillo, Nisa Gunduz, Ripped from the Headlines, Terror Comes Knocking: The Marcela Borges Story, Thriller

Movie Review :: Hallmark’s Polar Opposites

January 12, 2025Chuck Duncan Leave a Comment

Hallmark takes viwers to the bottom of the world for its latest romantic adventure… continue reading

★★, Home Viewing Adventure, Dean McDermott, Drama, Hallmark Channel, Hallmark Plus, Maeve Quinlan, Markian Tarasiuk, Michel Hersch, Polar Opposites, Raissa Xavier, Rhiannon Fish, Romance, Winter Escape

Movie Review :: Lifetime Network’s Vanished in Death Valley

January 6, 2025Chuck Duncan Leave a Comment

Lifetime heads back to the desert for another missing person thriller… continue reading

★★, Home Viewing Aryè Campos, Ava Bianchi, Crime, Drama, Dwayne Tarver, Katherine Joan Taylor, Lifetime, Lisa Long, Matthew Pohlkamp, Patrick Scott Lewis, Thriller, Vanished in Death Valley

Movie Review :: Hallmark Channel’s Love of the Irish

January 5, 2025Chuck Duncan 1 Comment

Hallmark moves into its ‘Winter Escape’ era with another Ireland-set romance… continue reading

★★, Home Viewing Cathal Ryan, Comedy, Doireann McNally, Drama, Ebimie Anthony, Eilish O'Carroll, Hallmark Channel, Hallmark Plus, Love of the Irish, Moira Kelly, Romance, Shenae Grimes-Beech, Stephen Hagan, Winter Escape

Movie Review :: Lifetime Network’s The Last Thing She Said

December 29, 2024Chuck Duncan Leave a Comment

The holidays are over at Lifetime, getting back to tawdry crime thrillers… continue reading

★★, Home Viewing Alana Hawley Purvis, Crime, Curtis Lovell, Drama, Jill Teed, Jonathan Hawley Purvis, Kylee Bush, Lifetime, Lucas Penner, The Last Thing She Said, Thriller, Tyler Cody

Movie Review :: Nosferatu sucks the life out of the vampire genre

December 25, 2024Chuck Duncan 3 Comments

Robert Eggers’ latest visual masterpiece may test the patience of the audience… continue reading

★★, Movie Reviews, Movies Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Bill Skarsgård, Drama, Emma Corrin, Focus Features, Horror, Lily-Rose Depp, Nicholas Hoult, Nosferatu, Ralph Ineson, Simon McBurney, Thriler, Willem Dafoe

Movie Review :: Hallmark’s Happy Howlidays

December 22, 2024Chuck Duncan 4 Comments

Hallmark introduces its first Mr. Christmas in a movie that’s gone to the dogs… continue reading

★★, Home Viewing Cassandra Sawtell, Christmas, Christopher Shyer, Comedy, Countdown to Christmas, Drama, Ella Cannon, Ezra Moreland, Hallmark Channel, Hallmark Plus, Happy Howlidays, Jessica Lowndes, Lynda Boyd, Romance, Sarah Formosa

Movie Review :: Lifetime’s A Carpenter Christmas Romance

December 22, 2024Chuck Duncan 1 Comment

Old flames reunite to kindle a spark following a town tragedy… continue reading

★★, Home Viewing A Carpenter Christmas Romance, Asia King, Chris Gann, Christmas, Drama, It's a Wonderful Lifetime, Kaley McCormack, Lifetime, Mitchell Slaggert, Romance, Sasha Pieterse

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✦ IN CINEMAS ✦

    MERCY  Watch on Apple TV. ★★✩
    THE HOUSEMAID  Watch on Apple TV. ★★★
    BUGONIA  Watch on Apple TV. ★★★
    CHAINSAW MAN - THE MOVIE  Watch on Apple TV. ★★★
    ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER  Watch on Apple TV. ★★★
    ELEANOR THE GREAT  Watch on Apple TV. ★★✩
    A BIG BOLD BEAUTIFUL JOURNEY Watch on Apple TV. ★★✩
    HIM Watch on Apple TV. ★✩✩
    THE BALTIMORONS  Watch on Apple TV. ★★✩
    NE ZHA II Watch on Apple TV. ★★★
    WEAPONS  Watch on Apple TV. ★★★
    BAD SHABBOS Watch on Apple TV. ★★★
    THE NAKED GUN Watch on Apple TV. ★★✩
    THE FANTASTIC FOUR Watch on Apple TV. ★★★
    OH, HI!  Watch on Apple TV. ★★✩
    ALL REVIEWS
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✦ HOME VIEWING ✦

    BEHIND CLOSED DOORS  ★★✩
    I'LL BE SEEING YOU  ★★★
    A HOUSE BUILT ON LIES  ★★★
    MURDER AT THE MERRIWEATHER  ★★★
    MURDER IN THE DARK  ★★✩
    TO PHILLY WITH LOVE  ★★✩
    THE GUEST WHO WOULDN'T LEAVE  ★★✩
    TEN THOUSAND REASONS FOR REVENGE  ★★✩
    I HAVE TO KILL MY NEIGHBOR  ★★★
    A LITTLE PARK MUSIC  ★★★
    HOME MAKEOVER NIGHTMARE  ★★✩
    KIDNAPPING MY OWN DAUGHTER  ★★★
    A SEASON TO BLOSSOM  ★★✩
    DON'T TRUST THE COUPLE UPSTAIRS  ★★✩
    PICTURE PERFECT SISTER-IN-LAW  ★★✩
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