What I'm watching in April 2023:

04/30/23 Midnight Traveler⭐

04/30/23 AKA (Netflix)

04/30/23 A Tourist's Guide to Love (Netflix)

04/28/23 The Citadel, Season 1, Episodes 1-2 (Amazon Prime)

04/28/23 Will Trent⭐, Season 1, Episodes 8-12 (Hulu)

04/28/23 Perry Mason⭐, Season 2, Episodes 4-8 (HBO Max)

04/27/23 Madam Secretary⭐, Season 4, Episodes 1-22 (Netflix)

03/25/23 Rabbit Hole, Season 1, Episodes 3-6 (Paramount+)

03/24/23 Succession, Season 4, Episode 5 (HBO Max)

04/21/23 The Diplomat, Season 1, Episodes 1-8 (Netflix)

04/19/23 Unexpected Grace (Hallmark)

04/18/23 Succession, Season 4, Episode 4 (HBO Max)

04/11/23 Beef, Season 1, Episode 1 (Netflix)

04/11/23 A Winning Team (Hallmark)

04/18/23 Succession, Season 4, Episodes 2-3 (HBO Max)

04/09/23 Madam Secretary⭐, Season 3, Episodes 1-23 (Netflix)

04/09/23 Chupa (Netflix)

04/08/23 On a Wing and a Prayer (Amazon Prime)

04/06/23 Ideal Home (Amazon Prime)

04/05/23 Bros (Amazon Prime)

04/05/23 The Company You Keep, Season 1, Episodes 1-6 (Hulu)

04/04/23 80 for Brady (Paramount +)

04/04/23 Game of Love (Hallmark)

04/03/23 The Love Club: Nicole's Pen Pal (Hallmark)

04/01/23 Unstable, Season 1, Episodes 4-8 (Netflix)

04/01/23 Murder Mystery 2 (Netflix)

What I'm watching in March 2023:

03/31/23 Unstable, Season 1, Episodes 1-3 (Netflix)

03/30/23 The Mandalorian, Season 3, Episodes 3-5 (Disney+)

03/27/23 Succession, Season 4, Episode 1 (HBO Max)

03/26/23 Rabbit Hole, Season 1, Episodes 1-2 (Paramount+)

03/24/23 The Night Agent⭐, Season 1, Episodes 1-10 (Netflix)

03/23/23 Daisy Jones & The Six⭐, Episodes 7-8 (Amazon Prime)

03/21/23 The Last of Us, Season 1, Episodes 1-9 (HBO Max)

03/21/23 Perry Mason⭐, Season 2, Episodes 1-3 (HBO Max)

03/20/23 Perry Mason⭐, Season 1, Episodes 1-8 (HBO Max)

03/20/23 Lucky Hank, Season 1, Episode 1 (AMC+)

03/18/23 Devotion (Paramount+)

03/16/23 Alaska Daily⭐, Season 1, Episodes 7-9 (Hulu)

03/15/23 The Show Must Go On: The Queen + Adam Lambert Story (Netflix)

03/11/23 Luther: The Fallen Sun (Netflix)

03/10/23 Everything Everywhere All at Once⭐

03/09/23 The Grapes of Wrath⭐

03/08/23 The Mandalorian, Season 3, Episodes 1-2 (Disney+)

03/08/23 Daisy Jones & The Six⭐, Episodes 4-6 (Amazon Prime)

03/08/23 Women Talking⭐ (Amazon Prime)

03/08/23 The Fabelmans⭐

03/07/23 Tár⭐

03/06/23 Minari⭐

03/06/23 Welcome to Valentine (Hallmark)

03/04/23 Triangle of Sadness⭐ (Hulu)

03/04/23 R.I.P.D. (Netflix)

03/03/23 Daisy Jones & The Six, Episodes 1-3 (Amazon Prime)

03/03/23 The Consultant, Season 1, Episodes 4-8 (Amazon Prime)

03/02/23 Directed by John Ford

03/01/23 Will Trent, Season 1, Episodes 5-7 (Hulu)

03/01/23 1923, Season 1, Episodes 1-8 (Paramount+)

What I'm watching in February 2023:

02/28/23 Mayor of Kingstown, Season 2, Episode 5-7 (Paramount+)

02/27/23 A Paris Proposal (Hallmark)

02/26/23 We Have a Ghost (Netflix)

02/24/23 The Consultant, Season 1, Episodes 1-3 (Amazon Prime)

02/23/23 Blonde (Netflix)

02/22/23 The Company You Keep, Season 1, Episode 1 (Hulu)

02/21/23 Babylon⭐ (Paramount+)

02/21/23 Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, a Journey, a Song (Netflix)

02/17/23 Will Trent, Season 1, Episodes 1-4 (Hulu)

02/16/23 Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (Disney+)

02/10/23 At Midnight (Paramount+)

02/10/23 Your Place or Mine (Netflix)

02/09/23 Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile (Netflix)

02/09/23 National Treasure: Edge of History, Season 1, Episodes 9-10 (Disney+)

02/08/23 True Spirit (Netflix)

02/07/23 Empire of Light⭐ (HBO Max)

02/06/23 The Last of Us, Season 1, Episodes 2-4 (HBO Max)

02/06/23 Stranger at the Gate (The New Yorker)

02/06/23 The Martha Mitchell Effect (Netflix)

02/05/23 Mayor of Kingstown, Season 2, Episode 4 (Paramount+)

02/04/23 All Quiet on the Western Front⭐ (Netflix)

02/02/23 Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (Disney+)

02/01/23 Argentina, 1985⭐ (Amazon Prime)

What I'm watching in January 2023:

01/31/23 You People (Netflix)

01/30/23 Mayor of Kingstown, Season 2, Episode 1-3 (Paramount+)

01/28/23 Kaleidoscope, Episodes 1-9 (Netflix)

01/27/23 Shotgun Wedding (Amazon Prime)

01/25/23 National Treasure: Edge of History, Season 1, Episodes 1-8 (Disney+)

01/24/23 Where the Crawdads Sing⭐ (Netflix)

01/24/23 Two Tickets to Paradise (Hallmark)

01/23/23 Both Sides of the Blade (AMC+)

01/23/23 The People We Hate at the Wedding (Amazon Prime)

01/22/23 The Dog Lover's Guide to Dating (Hallmark)

01/21/23 Vengence (Amazon Prime)

01/18/23 The Last of Us, Season 1, Episode 1 (HBO Max)

01/17/23 Designated Survivor, Season 3, Episodes 1-10 (Netflix)

01/15/23 Anne Rice's Mayfair Witches, Episodes 1-2 (AMC+)

01/15/23 The Most Colorful Time of the Year (Hallmark)

01/14/23 Dog Gone (Netflix)

01/13/23 RRR⭐ (Netflix)

01/13/23 The Bear⭐, Season 1, Episodes 1-8 (Hulu)

01/10/23 Designated Survivor, Season 2, Episodes 1-22 (Netflix)

01/10/23 The Pale Blue Eye⭐ (Netflix)

01/07/23 The Menu⭐ (HBO Max)

01/06/23 The Good House

01/05/23 Designated Survivor, Season 1, Episodes 1-21 (Netflix)

01/04/23 A Big Fat Family Christmas (Hallmark)

01/03/23 Ticket to Paradise

01/03/23 Hanukkah on Rye (Hallmark)

01/02/23 Are We There Yet?

01/01/23 Emily in Paris, Season 3, Episodes 1-10 (Netflix)

What I'm watching in December 2022:

12/31/22 The Swimmers (Netflix)

12/30/22 White Noise⭐ (Netflix)

12/29/22 About Fate (Amazon Prime)

12/26/22 My Grown-Up Christmas List (Hallmark)

12/25/22 Undercover Holiday (Hallmark)

12/24/22 Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan, Season 3⭐ (Amazon Prime)

12/23/22 Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery⭐ (Netflix)

12/23/22 Christmas with You (Netflix)

12/22/22 Top Gun: Maverick⭐ (Paramount+)

12/22/22 A Bad Mom's Christmas (Netflix)

12/21/22 1923 (Paramount+ series, episode 1)

12/20/22 The Recruit (Netflix series)

12/18/22 If These Walls Could Sing (Disney+)

12/18/22 The Apology (AMC+)

12/17/22 I Believe in Santa (Netflix)

12/16/22 Black Adam (HBO Max)

12/15/22 Banshees of Inisherin⭐ (HBO Max)

12/14/22 National Treasure: Edge of History, Season 1 (Disney+, In Progress)

12/13/22 Pelosi in the House⭐ (HBO Max)

12/12/22 Lady Chatterley's Lover (Netflix)

12/12/22 The White Lotus, Season 2 (HBO Max series)

12/11/22 Emily the Criminal (Netflix)

12/11/22 A Royal Corgi Christmas (Hallmark)

12/10/22 #XMAS (Hallmark)

12/09/22 Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio⭐ (Netflix)

12/08/22 Amsterdam (HBO Max)

12/07/22 Wednesday (Netflix series)

12/06/22 The Lady from Shanghai

12/05/22 Mrs. Harris Goes To Paris⭐

12/05/22 Bullet Train (Netflix)

12/04/22 Sr.⭐ (Netflix)

12/03/22 Dead to Me, Season 3 (Netflix)

12/01/22 A Hollywood Christmas (HBO Max)

The Banshees of Inisherin

— A dark tale of a friendship that’s soured on a desolate island off the coast of Ireland in the 1920s. Hurt, anger, and meanness flow like water as the emotional, hazy story unfolds in a line from love to vengence. It’s a film that looks good, feels right, and evolves to a perfect end. Having Colin Ferrell and Brendan Gleeson in the lead roles helps, as does having Martin McDonagh writing and directing. [HBO Max streaming.]

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[2022. 114 min. Directed by Martin McDonagh. Starring Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson, Kerry Condon, and Barry Keoghan.]
https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-banshees-of-inisherin-film-review-2022

Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio

— A lovely tale told by a really good storyteller. It’s nice to see good stop-motion animation after so many CGI-heavy tales, and Guillermo del Toro’s variation is unusual enough to have you sometimes smiling and sometimes gasping at his audacity. It’s darker than Disney, but every bit as stunning. I don’t think it’s exactly a children’s film but, in the end, it is about imperfect fathers and imperfect children, life and death, authoritarianism, and everyone’s ability to make a difference in the world. It doesn’t hurt to have Ewan McGregor in a very prominent voice role and, in smaller roles, the likes of Cate Blanchette, Christoph Waltz, Tilda Swinton, and John Turturro. I really liked this film. [Netflix streaming.]

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[2022. 157 min. Directed by Guillermo del Toro. Voice Starring Ewan McGrego, David Bradley, and Gregory Mann.]
https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/guillermo-del-toros-pinocchio-2022

Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris

— The synopsis of this senior Cinderella story sounds like a run-of-the-mill 1950’s comedy or a 1970’s romcom. It’s about a British cleaning lady who, on seeing a Dior gown in an employer’s closet, decides she must have one of her own. It could easily have relied on a tried-and-true formula for success, but this is a charming story of dreams, love, values, and maybe a little karma. In the end, it feels like an anthem for unseen women, for the common man, and for invisible workers, as well as for the core similarities we all share. [Peacock streaming.]

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[2022. 155 min. Directed by Anthony Fabian. Starring Lesley Manville, Isabelle Huppert, and Lambert Wilson.]
https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/mrs-harris-goes-to-paris-movie-review-2022