Humble Request: Can you start listing the Apps/Services where the movies you’re reviewing can be found? Do they make TV’s with a search function on the Home Screen that will send you to the Apps where you can watch the movies you’re looking for?

Of course.  Some recent ones. If there’s one specific just axe.

Detained - Paramount+
The Electric State - Netflix
Longlegs - Hulu
Copshop - Peacock
Fly Me to the Moon - AppleTV
The Silent Hour - Hulu
Nosferatu - Peacock
Heretic - Max
Conclave - Peacock
Venom Last Dance - Netflix
Speak No Evil - Peacock
September 5 - Paramount+
Saturday Night - Netflix
The Gorge - AppleTV
Strangers 1 - Prime

Gladiator II - so bad I won’t review it - Paramount +

Deadpool (bought it on prime when they had one of those $5 specials)

About to buy Sharky’s Machine (prime Burt)

Detained

Don’t you hate it when a good script and a compelling premise is wasted? That’s what we have here. Take this story and give it a bigger budget, film it with something other than an iPhone 11, give it a more solid acting punch? It could have been a really solid movie.  Too bad that didn’t happen.

Mother (from The Boys) isn’t horrendous. Neither is Abbie Cornish. They just don’t have the chops to elevate this movie.  They aren’t helped by a supporting cast that felt like it was taken straight from somebody’s cousin’s improv class. Forget B-list. These guys were way down the alphabet.  Maybe Q or lower.

The production values were so bad. Everything about it looked so cheap. Lighting, sound, sets… all of it felt like they had a budget of maybe $6.29 and didn’t spend it all.

The story? It was actually pretty good if you could overlook the horrific execution. 

Cornish is the girlfriend of a married gambler (or something) who died. Days or weeks later, she wakes up in a police station with no memory of the previous night.  According to the arresting officers she apparently did some pretty bad stuff in a drunken stupor.

As she takes in her surroundings she starts to - wisely - have suspicions about the people and the situation.

From there, what you think you know twists and turns until the final frame.  The story probably could have used just a little tightening, but overall? It had enough to carry it to the final reveal(s). 

It’s a straight to DVD (using the old terminology) type movie that barely anyone will ever see. I’m not even sure how it ended up in my rotation. It’s the potboiler kind of thing Bruce Willis or Nic Cage churned out once a a month or so for a while. It should have been better than that. 

Now rated 17 by Baseball America at 17-4 with a three game series starting today @ Kentucky.

Steven Pearl after the game.

"About the only positive is that we won the game. That’s about it,” said Pearl. “It was embarrassing, honestly. To come out in an NCAA Tournament game with that energy and that effort, that’s why we lost last year. We’ve got to be so much frickin’ better than we are right now.”

Pearl singled out both Johni Broome and Chad Baker-Mazara for their poor effort. Broome had a double-double with 14 points and 11 rebounds, but had just one assist, no blocked shots and turned the ball over three times. He was also just 4 of 9 on free throws.

Baker-Mazara had five points on 1 of 9 shooting along with two rebounds, three assists and two turnovers.

“Johni and Chad have to be better. They have to be better in all aspects of the game,” said Pearl. “And if they’re not, we will not win. I would imagine that Coach is going to challenge them really hard right now because they just didn’t bring it tonight, and I have no idea why. No idea.”

Had to laugh when Tahaad spotted an open Pearl or yelled at the television when Chad pulled a State player to the floor. And just an observation but I think Johni has better form from the stripe than Shaquille O'Neal.


I stepped off a ladder onto the top of my foot about 4 months ago. Chris Moore will not be an asset moving forward. Feet don't respond well to such awkward abuse. Count him out.