★★★ “Everything that goes up, must come down again.” Note: Watching season 1 or at least reading Jim’s review of it is highly recommended. Spoilers will follow! I never played the MOBA (multiplayer online battle arena) video game League of Legends. But I guess this was the case for many… Continue reading| Girls With Guns
★½ “A load of panths.” There are times when I can look at a failure of a movie, and kinda see how the various elements could have been arranged to better effect. That’s the case here, where a poverty-row, Spanish-language (but made in Texas) production about rape, revenge and narcos,… Continue reading| Girls With Guns
★★½ “Is there such a thing as whiteface?” I ask, because this film, made in Mexico City and starring mostly Mexicans, seems to be trying to take place in America. It’s not doing a good job of it. The heroine is Martha (Mazarrasa), a single mother running a shop in… Continue reading| Girls With Guns
★★★½ “Have you ever been in a Turkish prison?” I really must get round to reviewing Wentworth. The Australian women-in-prison drama certainly deserves coverage here, and has provided some of the best television we’ve enjoyed in the 2010’s. I keep intending to do so, but suspect that will now likely… Continue reading| Girls With Guns
★★★★ “You should never call a psychopath a psychopath. It upsets them.” A genuinely organic hit on BBC America, this generated so much word of mouth that the ratings for this show behaved in an unexpected fashion. Including those who DVR’d the show, viewership increased for each episode over its… Continue reading| Girls With Guns
★★★★ “Discipline isn’t an issue in Ms. Carter’s class.” Okay, I will admit that this strained credibility on a number of occasions, to the point that buttons were popping off its shirt. But I don’t think the makers were exactly going for gritty realism, and the bottom line is: I… Continue reading| Girls With Guns
★★ “Third time’s the harm” Halfway through the final installment, Chris came in. She paused, watching for a moment, then said, “They spend far too much time talking, and not enough time killing.” Just a shame she waited 93 episodes to express so succinctly one of the main problems with… Continue reading| Girls With Guns
★★★ “Crossing the Lion…” If 2023 has been underwhelming on the theatrical front (to put it mildly), the various streaming services have certainly had no shortage of entries to keep us occupied here. This one comes to us from Paramount+, and stars Saldaña – already known around these parts, most… Continue reading| Girls With Guns
★★★ “Good afternoon and good night.” I’ll treat these two seasons as one entity. Indeed, there’s a case to be made that you could include the first season as well, given the way they are inter-connected. However, it feels that the second and third are more directly linked. If you… Continue reading| Girls With Guns
★★★★ “Touched by an angel.” British television was rather late to the policewoman party. The first such American show, Decoy, had aired in 1957, and been followed in the seventies by Get Christie Love! and Police Woman. But the UK had to wait until the eighties for their first home-grown… Continue reading| Girls With Guns
★★★ “La reina de Sudamérica” Even though the third season was announced just a couple of weeks after our review of the second series was posted, I was still surprised when it suddenly popped up on Netflix earlier this year. I’d simply forgotten about the show, it having been part… Continue reading| Girls With Guns
