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Paranormal Witness: The Fireplace (2015) Season 4, Episode 9

Nice ladies, good entertainment but not as good as previous episodes

[8/10 · 21 June 2024]

This is more of a 7/10 but I'm giving it an 8 because the ladies were likeable and the story was well told, however there was something missing to make it fully enjoyable. IDK, I'm thinking better props and decor/setting, that makes or breaks a show for me.

The woman was very aggravating (Linda) when she played martyr and refused to go stay at her cousin's. First off she tells us she's all alone cos her BF is a truck driver? No, woman! You have all these sisters, cousins, aunts and multiple BFFs (plus TWO kids!!!) coming out of the woodwork, for that you just wanted to figuratively punch her for lying! Try having ALL your entire family DIE and fair weather friends disappear, and then talk to me. Until then, yeah punchable for idiot woman playing martyr, UGH!!!

The story was OK. I think I've seen the old evil lady play another entity in one of these shows. There's no way to tell if it was made up or real, but the lady started crying and was convincing. When I read the outline of the story, I was convinced this was a take on the 1973 film "Don't Be Afraid of the Dark" but who knows?! Also, since they were in an apartment, gotta wonder why the spook didn't travel thru the chimney and go haunt other apartments, instead of staying trapped inside the fireplace!

And was there 2 hauntings? The old lady + the fireplace ghoul? Because why would the old lady bang inside the fireplace if she was already inside the apt.? Things that make you go "hmm...?"!

PS: the SyFy channel is so much better at making these shows than the Travel Channel. Wish I had found these earlier.

One more thing: who the hell complains wantonly at reviews, yet doesn't bother himself (herself?) to properly rate other people's reviews?! UGH!!!

Paranormal Witness: The Dark Pond (2015) Season 4, Episode 6

Lily! Lily! Lily!!!!! This episode is enough to make you want to commit Lilycide!

[3/10 · 18 June 2024]

UGH!!!! What an aggravating name this "Lily" is! Why is everyone and her sister naming their kids "Lily"?? Anyway, this episode was every bit as annoying with the woman calling "LILY!!!!" nonstop as the Suzy Doll was for swinging ropes, chains, chandeliers, beaded curtains and other lamp fringes every 5 secs. UGH!!!

The story was nonesense and had already been better done in a Travel Channel series episode. Not much happening. You never see what's at the bottom of the pond. If you expected What Lies Beneath, this isn't it, but I bet it was done after that came out. (NOTE: What Lies Beneath was copied premise, script and almost scene by scene from Of Ghosts and Angels from Charlie's Angels.) UGH. Character limit reached. I'm done here 3/10. And quit calling your kids the cursed Lily name!

Paranormal Witness: Suzy Doll (2015) Season 4, Episode 4

TRIGGER WARNING ALERT: Not for viewers with MSPD or motion sickness!

[1/10 · 17 June 2024]

This episode is the worst! First off it has horrible people, unsightly interviewees and annoying actors. But that's not the worst part: they have motion-sickness inducing objects in nearly every other scene!!!!

We're talking idiot beaded curtains swinging nonstop, chandeliers moving and other swing sets outside. It's taken me several tries to watch this but I keep having to pause it every 2 min cos it triggers me...BAD!!!!

The story itself is another awful tall tale: we have an abusive father who vehemently wakes up his 3 daughters for no good reason and why would the doll be possessed by demons? Hello!!! It's brand new and the AUNT gave it to the kid. Min character limit achieved, I'm out!

Strange Universe (1996– )

I have been looking for this awesome 90s show for decades now!

[10/10 · 16 June 2024]

Folks, before we had ghosts galore at the Travel Channel, and before it was acceptable to speak of paranormal activity in front of respectable company, we had Strange Universe. It was presented by quite an eerie looking fellow, Emmett Miller, and this was back before the zombie masses would get offended at everything and assume the worst, and it was normal to wonder out loud about someone's ethnicity. (Hey, he is so handsome, I just wanted to know if there were more where that one came from!) So for the record, he looked like a Black man with European features. Strange combination indeed because, much like the proverbial 3-D box, or those Magic Images framed on window displays at the mall where we gathered to see if we could make out the hidden ice-cream popsicles, Miller looked sometimes White and sometimes Black, but not always both at the same time. And therein lied his eerily exotic pulchritude and uncanny attractiveness.

I remember what a fun weekend break it was to watch this show, before the Monday morning grind started again. And the episode I'd really love to watch again is the one that featured a man who spoke to the ants... and they did his bidding! (I think I tried that a few times when my place got invaded, alas it never worked for me!) I do believe the segment was called The Ant Whisperer. For some reason, I wanna say he lived in Arizona, but don't quote me on this!

I think the man was someone who was called as a last resort, before phoning an exterminator. Or maybe he was the no-kill exterminator. Whatever it be, I remember the man lying on the ground, and talking to the ants. And the ants would turn around and do his bidding. "Hey, leave that house, you guys." I'm not sure that's what he said, or that we ever were told what he said to the ants, and I don't even think he offered them food and water elsewhere. All I know is the host was adamant that his technique worked. And there were testimonies by grateful and amazed homeowners.

I have never forgotten this segment and it's the one I'd most like to re-watch. It has never ever been shown on the Travel Channel, at least not in the past decade. I'm big into animal communication, so that truly fascinated me, and I wondered if it would work on larger critters (I don't care for insects myself.)

As for the segment of the alien outside the window and children, I do remember that. I believe that also aired on other shows, and perhaps also on America's Funniest Videos, unless it was a similar segment with a baby on a high chair, children, a Christmas tree and a helium balloon. Anyway, the guy didn't leave a contact and never said why he wanted that one, in particular.

Well, this show was probably an 8/10 but I'm giving it a 10/10 for nostalgia's sake. I wonder if Gen Xers could petition TPTB to get this on DVD stat?!

Paranormal Witness: The Visitors (2013) Season 3, Episode 17

Pretty well-done episode, but is this man's story another tall tale whose aim is to push Christianity?

[8/10 · 15 June 2024]

This is the last episode of this series which is worth watching. It's downhill from here, and I have watched all of them from S3 to S4 E3. It then goes from bad to worse.

I quite enjoyed the story, badly CGI'd "imps" notwithstanding, until I googled this man. Why, out of all the episodes I had watched, did I feel the need to specifically google him? Perhaps the way he kept saying the story was real.

Imagine my surprise to find he has a cult following. His fan club has not only googled him, they've posted all over the internet's most famous platforms. And then there he is, responding to his fan. Linking them to his book.

So this loses credibility for me right away: man wants to sell book, contacts PW with his tall tale. This man is brainwashed. His book is a Jesus-garbage pushing propaganda.

When will the Jesus freaks realize that they bought the FIRST thing they were told about religion and never researched it.

1) Christians are the most evil peoples on the planet. They use their Jesus to commit the most atrocious acts and yell at normal people in the name of their mental insanity: "Jesus".

2) Europeans were slaughtered by savages, aka Christians that hauled from the M. E. to promote their fake religion. (ALL religions are fake, folks!)

3) Europeans are naturally pagans. Pagans worship (read: respect and tend to) mother earth, the stars, the sun, the moon. How much more beautiful can a spirituality get?? But the M. E. savages tore down all our pagan sites (except Stonehenge, go figure!) and built xtian churches on top of them.

4) The M. E. is the most violent spot on the planet. It was so when I was born. It's so today and it was so 100's of years ago and will be so 100's years later when you read this. WHY would you want to partake of their insanity.

FINALLY:

5) YOUR SUBCONSCIOUS MIND's PROGRAMMING RULES YOUR LIFE and YOUR SUBCONSCIOUS WILL ACCEPT ANY BELIEF AS TRUE.

You are a witch. We all are. Say you "pray" (incantation) to whichever name you call your subconscious mind and you get results, BOOM! You deluded yourself into beleving this Jesus guy is real. It's not. He/it never existed. They sold you a bridge to snow in Arizona.

Instead of reading this man's book, read The Battle of Your Mind by Dick Sutphen. It ought to be mandatory reading in schools. As I type, the audio tape is on YT. It will be the best spent 20 min of your life. It will show to you how your mind works basic proof how preachers convert you and how to resist.

FREE YOUR MIND! Enough of evil on this planet due to people worshipping this demon "Jesus". It's an evil tulpa, think Satan if you believe in xtian mythology, that wreaks havoc on earth the more you pray to it. A false prophet.

8/10 for the episode talent, acting and storyline, camerawork, lighting etc. 0/10 for another bogus PW story!

Paranormal Witness: The Innocent (2013) Season 3, Episode 15

I turned it off after 14 min: don't make the same mistake!!!!

[8/10 · 14 June 2024]

I was bored for the first 14 minutes, kept doing stuff on my laptop and I finally turned it off as I couldn't take it, so boring it was. Well! Don't make the same mistake as I did:

I'm glad I like to finish episodes in series I like, because this is a very poignant episode! I did find the actresses quite boring in the beginning, particularly when telling the story but it gets better is all I can say.

It did tug at my heartstrings and there was a surprising twist. I do wonder (assuming this isn't one of their made-up stories) whether the 2 women became friends. I also wish they would have shown the woman allowing the sister enough time to meet her little brother's ghost. For that, I deduct 2 points.

HUGE PET PEEVE: this series has the worst trailers I've ever seen! They are chaotic, with lots of noise/objects falling and make me not want to see the episode, for these trailers are super-tiring and tedious to watch. (Surely, I mustn't be the only one, riiiight!??!)

This SyFy series is much, much better than the Travel Channel similar series such as A Haunting or My Haunted House. It has better production values and more interesting stories to tell. So it is far superior because it's way more entertaining. I am getting thru the series OnDemand. Highly recommended and this one, I rate 8/10.

Paranormal Witness: The Coven (2013) Season 3, Episode 16

Did not make much sense whatsoever!

[6/10 · 14 June 2024]

So the landladies were witches...who conjured up spirits into a house they rented out....why, pray tell, why!??! If they're never there doing seances because they rented it out, what would they want with ghosts? Why would they want their tenants to keep committing suicide? It means loss of income, more work having to show the house again & again and all...

And the pretty women turning into old hags at the end... yeah, far fetched! Folks, there's no such thing as "witches", that's fiction. Like vampires, there's only poseurs and wicca practitioners who cast spells that never work (99% of the time!) Witches, that's Sam and Endora and nobody can show up in your office, floating in the corner on their broom.

No folks, this story was fake AF and the entertainment value here was poor. Meh!

Paranormal Witness: Through the Eyes of a Killer (2013) Season 3, Episode 14

Bryan Mello: please append to your review and explain your calling foul to this title!

[8/10 · 13 June 2024]

This isn't a paranormal episode but a crime TV show. It doesn't really fit in with the rest of their episodes but it is very well filmed, and very entertaining.

Bryan Mello, however, left a review claiming that this is not a psychic and that inaccuracies were told in the show. And I'd like to know why! Who are you? Did you work in this case? So how would you know? Your name is not listed in the credits/cast so where do you come from to make such claims?

Anyway, It's a very long episode and I'm almost finished watching it. Bryan when you see this, edit your review to corrorborate your, so far, baseless claims. Thanks.

Big (1988)

You really need to compartmentalize to tolerate Tom Hanks and his proclivities in this

[7/10 · 13 June 2024]

With his fat nose, creepy eyes, aggravatingly curly hair and nauseating vibe, I have never EVER liked Tom Hanks. Not in the 80s when he was an ingenu doing sitcoms, and not today, when what he really is has been revealed albeit not made the mainstream news unlike a certain someone with his namesake island, if you catch my drift.

And if you don't, just read the review by antide-4237613 of March 2022, as she told it like it is.

Yes, this is a very entertaining movie. Yes, Hanks did an okay job with it, unlike what the low rated reviews claim. Tom Hanks was in many movies he had no business being in with his subpar looks. Sleepless in Seattle, an excellent film in its own right, comes to mind. He ruins the otherwise watchable movie for me. No, Nicolas Cage nor John Travolta would have been fit for the part. But I tell you who would have been excellent: Robert Hays, of Airplane! Fame.

Yes, this movie is a classic and has memorable scenes, such as Robert Loggia (not Ben Gazzara!) and the perp jumping on the big piano. 80s films, especially comedies, were the greatest, never parallelled, never surpassed. But there's also many elements that just don't work for me: Bernadette Peters is every bit as aggravating a presence in any movie as Marilu Henner or Leslie-Ann Warren. (Thank goodness, it wasn't either of those 2 tarts!)

All and all, it's a watchable and highly entertaining film, especially the first scenes. But it also has the disturbing elements mentioned by the aforementioned reviewer. I mean the scene when Josh's friend freaks out because Tom Hanks has trapped him in a small space...well, ask his victim how it feels to watch that.

With a face like his and a very sleazy stage presence, I can't help but wonder who Harvey Weinsteined Tom Hanks for him to ever have had a Hollywood career. Think of all the talented actors who never made it past acting classes. I met a few in my day. And so it goes... 7/10 It would have been a 10/10 but for the likes of Hanks and Peters.

True Terror with Robert Englund (2020– )

Boring AF, takes place in 1800s Old West, tedious to watch, I keep looking at the time and pausing the show because Robert England's narration puts me in a stupor

[5/10 · 21 April 2024]

I'm sorry fans of this actor, I'm sure he's otherwise lovely but his way of delivering his lines here, his voice and the rest of this show puts me to sleep! There's only been 1 episode that I found interesting, so I tried to watch more, but the fact that it's divided into 3 stories doesn't even help to pick up the pace: stories are slow-paced, some of the actors are over the top but I think the most boring thing here is that it takes place in the old west; we're talking 1800s and I have zero affinities for that history! ZZZzzz you can be sure I never had any past lives over there LOL

in conclusion I'm glad it was canceled.

Mysteries of the Outdoors: No Man's Land (2017) Season 2, Episode 12

Unwatchable! Flashing images every 5 Seconds literally! do not even attempt to watch this if you have vaccine induced seizures

[1/10 · 20 April 2024]

Overkill editing effects has Flzshing images non-stop every 5 Seconds literally constant rapidly flushing white screens is driving me insane I tried to watch this but I really can't; I had to avert my eyes and just listen to it because it is unwatchable! What were you thinking? There isn't even a placard at the beginning warning us of their flashing images the topic was interesting the delivery is very poorly executed and I still can't believe that in 2024 did their aired this on television without so much as a warning for people with seizures and other people with brain tumors or neurological disorders.

The Dead Files: The Offering (2017) Season 8, Episode 7

It was hilarious when Steve revealed to Amy but the two women in front of her are "sensitives": you should have seen the cowardly face on Amy!

[1/10 · 20 April 2024]

It doesn't take a psychic to sense that Amy is a fake and a phony and has zero psychic ability whatsoever, let alone medium. This show is as fake as it comes and I can't believe it took so many seasons to forcibly remove Amy from the cast! Anyway this episode was hilarious because here they find themselves in the mecca of all things metaphysical: Sedona, Arizona. So of course you're going to find real psychics here, and that was the case as was revealed to Amy when she sat down in front of the two former hostesses of the restaurant they went to investigate.

From then on, the show got good because you could see Amy's cowardly face when Steve revealed to her that the 2 women sitting in front of her were psychics themselves! Amy had that look of the deer caught in the headlights, like: "OOPS! They're going to know I'm a fake and this is all staged, and I'm being fed information by Steve, prior to my going investigate."

people don't be so gullible please: it's called staging, editing and scripting! Steve always goes gather the information first (and I believe the producers gather it even before Steve does!) and then they feed that information to Amy before she goes on her walk, and then the editor makes the show's magic for the gullible masses by splicing the clips of Steve in the middle instead of first, when it actually took place! How else do you think Amy hits the nail on the head 100% of the time?! How can you be so dumb?!

The faces the women were making in response to Amy's phony talk were priceless! You could see their eyes narrowing in disbelief. Contempt was spewing out of both women's pores especially the blonde one with limp hair. Of course it can be assured that the production yelled cut and they talked to the women and they fed them some lines to say praising Amy or else they would have had to pay for the Productions travel to Sedona Etc so they went along with it.

People are so gullible in this day and age, especially with marijuana being made legal but the viewers of this show are on some major level kind of "special", for sure! One sucker born every minute, or whatever the expression is fully applies here... Watch it for the entertainment value of seeing Amy squirm as she is caught in her own trap of the web of lies she weaved herself. Priceless! For the rest, this show is and has always been a 1/10.

My Haunted House: Unwanted Guest & Mirror Image (2013) Season 1, Episode 2

Both stories appear to be fake

[3/10 · 19 April 2024]

The first story is by far the better one: better acted, better produced and more interesting; the second one is slow with 2 very dull and uninteresting actresses, and it's like pulling teeth watching it; there's nothing scary about that one either.

Also, we can clearly see that both stories are very fake: the 1st one has an implausible levitation scene and the woman claims that she erased the video of it! (Seriously taking the audience for imbeciles here! If that happened to any of us we would be posting it on YouTube and making as many copies as possible to make sure it is never erased!) The 2nd one has 2 different actresses listed as playing the character of Eva: the French one plays the reenactment character and the Italian actress plays the interviewee character! So there is no real Eva person to whom this happened. MEH!

Hotel Paranormal (2020– )

Boring beyond boring, terribly filmed & produced! Even Dan Akroyd is annoying AF shouting his lines

[2/10 · 16 April 2024]

This is one of the worst ghost reenactment productions from the Travel Channel: it has bottom of the barrel production values and by that I mean it's the cameraman's fault and the editor's, or whomever told them to film in this way: every time there's an evil entity, the camera zooms past them really fast, so that you cannot see anything beyond a blurry black mass, and that's the most important thing when making a ghost show!! So if you cannot see the entity, it's not scary it's not horror and it's renders this show completely useless.

Every time I watch it, I can't wait for the commercial so I can take care of stuff and every time the commercial ends I'm annoyed that it ended so quickly; that's how bad this show is LOL.

The narrator's nasal voice is unpleasant and all around horrible, shouting his lines with a silly affected intonation that does not work at all with this show; so imagine my surprise when I figured out it's one of my favorite actors, Dan Akroyd! Every time I try to watch this show it's so boring I find myself distracted on the computer, like it's on right now and that's what I'm doing.

All the recreation scenes seem to be bathed in a golden light, which makes me wonder what possessed somebody to throw a bucket of camel urine at the camera.

There is no scare factor here whatsoever, and the filming is totally boring and not entertaining at all. The cuts to the interviewees are too much! They happen way too often and kill the momentum. Whoever created this show doesn't know how to create a show: everything about this production is horrible and none of the stories are thus interesting in the way they're presented.

And this is coming from a reviewer who, throughout my life, happens to have rented 3 different hotel rooms that were extremely haunted, so that's why this was interesting to me. Look, I wouldn't even care if the stories are fake, as long as you entertain me, that's all I ask, but this is absolutely unwatchable because it is boring AF.

Serendipity (2001)

Why would a beautiful woman care about a boring dude who looks like a cartoon worm-face sticking out of an apple?

[4/10 · 13 April 2024]

John Cusack is unattractive, atrocious-looking and not an actor. He's certainly is no leading man material and can't act. He has 0 personality to backup a character that would be found attractive by Kate Beckinsale.

Her character is idiotic the premise is convoluted and there is not one salvageable actor here. There is not one character that I care about this is the second time I see this and I've always started mid movie.

Why does John Colbert always have to play the 'Bohemian' long-hair perennial boyfriend (usually to ugly women) whom nobody wants to marry? Why does Moynahan always play the model whose boyfriend always cheat on her (usually with an uglier female)? Unfortunately for her, life imitated art when Tom Brady did it to her.

Not even Jeremy Piven or Mary-Catherine Gallagher can save this movie. The salesman also was annoying AF. I did not rate it any lower because at least it has good cinematography and it is fast paced.

Hollywood still not has learned its lesson: an idiotic script cannot be saved by pretty cinematography and actress, who was acting for 2, since John Cusack had 0 chemistry with her, but at least Kate made you believe she cared about the guy, in spite of how stupid her character was. 4/10.

Joe Versus the Volcano (1990)

Everybody diseased at the featured reviews?? 8/10 did you fall on your head?!

[1/10 · 12 April 2024]

I made it to exactly 24 minutes and 19 seconds when I decided to come here and see how bad a schlock this film is. I have always wondered what this movie was about and why it's never been once shown on television ever. Now I understand: it is completely unwatchable.

Whoever directed this piece of crap: don't quit your day job! Fool needs to know that it's not because the lead character's depressed that they need to try to depress the entire audience: that's how you get viewers to leave the theater and demand a refund! Growing up means learn to walk away and not waste your precious life watching 1 more second of an ugly, disgusting film such as this schlock.

The setup the decor the cinematography everything is really really bad! Dim and ugly colors makes this film unwatchable! I barely recognized Meg Ryan with her equally dim dark brown hair (which I assume is her real hair color) her brown contact lenses and toxic speech twang.

This film has not 1 redeeming quality! Even the Great Dane (dog walked by an old lady) wanted to get away from Tom Hanks! No doubt, it smelled what this insipid buffoon has been up to, to achieve worldwide stardom: dogs don't like people without soul who hurt little children.

Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008)

You're pretty; no, you're pretty; trust me you're a lot prettier than I am. okay you're right!

[5/10 · 12 April 2024]

This is one of those movies that I both disliked and enjoyed at the same time. I'll try to explain why.

The lead actor, who also happens to be the writer to producer the director and goodness knows what else, and whom I have never heard of before nor ever seen in anything at all, was playing a pathetic character with the shapeless blob of an embarrassing silhouette for a body. He is obviously an exhibitionist with a real life humiliation fetish, as there was no reason for him to lingeringly be flashing his cock any chance he got, gratuitously, and several times at that! On the plus side it wasn't a female for a change, except for a photo of Mila Kunis' budding training bra "contents", which left so much to be desired, that one has to wonder if what they say about humiliation rituals in Hollywood are actually a thing. Clearly was one, and shame on her for flashing her shortcomings.

Kristen Bell's character was pathetic and unlikable to the max and also surprised that she would accept such a (supporting) role. Her flip-flopping at the end seemed out of character and made the movie all the less enjoyable.

Russell Brand was just Russell Brand and i already forgot that I came here to check if he was actually a sober person during filming just like his character. In the end, I couldn't care less. The story is ok and the movie's fast-paced enough, but I don't know what everybody else is talking about Hawaii, because you don't see Hawaii scenery at all; it takes place pretty much indoors in a hotel room, restaurant or bar and that's it.

I agree with those who said it was too vulgar for my taste, but there is actually more pathetic and vulgar, as I had the displeasure of founding out earlier today when I watched the beginning of Some kind of Beautiful with Pierce Brosnan.

The Dracula puppet show was a tiny bits interesting with excellent singing but pretty much pathetic and there's not much of anything else going on except for the beautiful rendition of Sinead O'Connor's Nothing compares 2U but in Hawaiian lyrics by Daniel Ho. Comes at the very end, as the credits roll. Skip the movie to the end and listen to this song and then it will be perfect entertainment; as it is I'm giving it to 6/10 and I sure hope never to have to see another film featuring the shapeless, buttless body of this Jason character, whatever his last name is. The film is rated way too high on here.

Some Kind of Beautiful (II) (2014)

Terrible: completely miscast, badly acted and painful to watch!

[1/10 · 11 April 2024]

What were they thinking?! And to think that A-listers like them turned down other, worthy films to make this stinker! Conspiracy theories could easily tell you that they chose this film as mandatory humiliation ritual that they're forced to participate in, every few years or something. Well the agony that is watching this film is enough to turn anyone into a conspiracy theorist, in that case

The movie started off sort of okay, and rapidly went downhill. This came on HBO right after the Heartbreakers which was at 10/10 extremely funny comedy. I turned this off after some 20 excruciating minutes. I have watched films like this recently from the same era and they're just one worse than the previous.

Pierce Brosnan is overacting, unfunny, trying too hard, looking decrepit and just all around old and out of the loop. His miserable performance here shows that he is but a shadow of his former self, the classy suave dude in Remington Steele.

Jessica Alba playing a young 20-some year old but was already 32 when she made this and it shows. She is unfunny and, at best, a waste of time.

Even worse is Selma Hayek, trying to act funny with her insipid performance of a pathetic character who gets cheated on. Whatsoever possessed her to accept this role?! The woman can't act!! At least not in a comedy! Jennifer Lopez would have been a lot better but I can see why she turned it down.

The story is bad, the writing is terrible with a lot of f-bombs being dropped right and left; a potty mouth and bathroom humor never works when one cannot act comedy, especially from this type of actors: they all look like old farts trying to sound cool. Betty White they are not.

I'd like to remind everybody that a review is *your opinion only* and not the place to post a recap of what's going on in the film: we have the synopsis page for that! Also, your rating should reflect *your enjoyment* (or lack thereof of it) and nothing more and certainly not what you think the movie should be worth as cinematic achievement when compared to Shakespeare. (Really tired of reading glowing reviews on here, along with her low rating: what is up with that?!) Either way this is a double stinker, in this case.

1/10 and I am tremendously glad I had the presence of mind to change the channel before watching one more minute of this pathetic flop of a film.

Heartbreakers (2001)

This movie is perfect

[10/10 · 11 April 2024]

Brilliantly cast, perfectly acted, magnificently written! It's pretty much a laugh a minute, and I'm talking about laughing out loud, which I hardly ever do with any comedies. Ray Liotta got me the most laughs.

Not only are the cons exciting, the movie is fast paced, there is not a moment of this film that is boring, just keeps me watching and wondering what they're going to do next. Every actor is perfectly cast to kudos to whoever was the casting director here they put together a great ensemble.

Visually appealing great cinematography with costumes and music score. The ending is perfect and just when I thought it couldn't end any better it ends even better in the final scene as they pull off the last con.

I had never heard of this film back when it was made and came out. I just only saw it for the first time last year and I just cut it again on HBO. If you're not afraid of being happy because something bad might happen to you right after, then watch this comedy. I know I will every time I want to feel happy: it is genius.

Unexplained: Caught on Camera: Taken Twins & The Abandoned Asylum (2022) Season 3, Episode 9

Skip this one: it's a nothingburger waste of time with 2 fools similarly going down the halls of an asylum? {REALLY Travel Channel?!}

[2/10 · 10 April 2024]

This production has seriously gone downhill. Where there used to be variety here and intriguing footage captured, now we have no variety only "diversity" in the sense of two YouTubers trying to fool audiences in order to promote their own channel, to secure lazy zillenial 'do-nothing' income.

First there's Chris, whom i must have seen at least 3 times already in this type of shows, and every time he goes exploring buildings, nothing whatsoever happens, except audio which he could have easily added post-prod. Here it seems one of his buddies is hiding behind a doorway with his arm inside a black furry paw which is seen retreating real quick. Bo-ring!

The other "diverse" presentation is even worse, with some guy making a spectacle of himself overacting a panic attack after going down his own asylum, where, mind you, nothing whatsoever happens! Look I don't tune in to this show to watch somebody fake-emoting. These people have to be (terrible) actors! Guess what would have happened if you or me would have sent this nonsense footage to this show?? You seriously think we would have made it on the air? No! These guys are part of the cast and are there to promote their YouTube channel to secure passive income, end of story.

Whoever cast this guy needs to be fired! We tune in to watch reasonably credible footage of Paranormal Activity, not to watch some schmuck emoting and overacting. If I can't see it just don't show it to me. Diversity has finally hit the Travel Channel and, as you guessed it, it's downhill from there. That's it.

Ghosts of Morgan City: The Man in Black (2019) Season 1, Episode 8

Cookie cutter ghost show: the hunters are all uncharismatic and as usual they fail to capture any ghostly footage!

[1/10 · 8 April 2024]

When I found this on demand, I had no idea it was another stupid ghost hunting show! So I started watching it not knowing what to expect as there was no synopsis on the screen. It started off fairly well, with the pretty establishing shot at night, and then they moved on to interview a Town Hall room filled with townspeople and over 75% of them raised their hand to the question has anyone here seen a ghost?

So I'm thinking for sure this will have some cool footage of live captures of ghosts right? Wrong! I find absolutely all ghost shows to be boring AF! All of them are idiotic boring cookie cutter formulaic and nothing ever happens.!

The only ghost show that I have ever found remotely passable is the Ghost Brothers but I do find it to become extremely boring halfway through it because, like an old ghost haunting TV shows, nothing ever happens. However at least the ghost brothers are all professional entertainers: they are all good looking, very charismatic, well-dressed and funny so they in the effort to add something that none of the other stupid shows have!

Do not waste your time with this series and I hope that the Travel Channel cancels all ghost shows unless you can show us the valid live footage of ghosts like you do in paranormal caught on camera do not bother us with your stupidity and fake setups. To add insultsto injury I found out they canceled the ghost Brothers unbelievable!

Bombshell (1933)

Extremely harsh-looking Jean Harlow shouts her every line non-stop in this painful TCM offering

[5/10 · 2 April 2024]

I'll start by saying that I quite like Jean Harlow movies, I usually find her fun to watch but I have no idea what is going on in this film! First of all, I had my TV volume at 8/100 (the volume doesn't go any lower on my Samsung!) and it was still way too loud in the middle of the night, not only for my relaxing ears, but also for the neighbors. So I have no idea what was going on in this film because I caught it in the middle, I couldn't cope with the yelling Non-Stop and I was too distracted by her face vis-a-vis the title being 'Bombshell', to figure out what they were saying or what was going on. (She was no more bombshell than William Powell in a silky dress.)

Jean Harlow couldn't act for shizzle, and this proves it. So, I have no idea why I like her as an actress because I can't stand any of the others who have so-called Legend status and died early, such as her copycat Marilyn Monroe or the ever pained and painful to watch James Dean. They not only couldn't act but were insufferable and homely, although the former benefited from extensive plastic surgeries.

Jean Harlow's visage was harsher on the eyes than sin; this, with the best cinematographers lighting her face and a ton of makeup spackled on! (So just imagine what she would have looked like without any!) She had dark, angry eyes at all times, ridiculous missing eyebrows replaced by clownish penciled-in question marks and very masculine features... and that was after her own multiple plastic surgeries! (I know this, because photos of her face before all the cosmetic surgeries can easily be found online...OUCH!) She also looked a lot older than her 26 years; her cheeks were bloated and she had a double chin, none of which is the stuff beauty is made of, let alone material for a bombshell! (Reminds me of Kelly Bundy in that aspect, whom every straight guy raved about back in the day, but stop staring at her platinum hair and take a look at her face... YIKES!)

Jean Harlow's acting style was nervous and very poor; she was constantly yelling her lines at her co-stars while gesticulating a lot and looking frantic; when her character was supposed to be listening to the other actor and responding she looked like she couldn't wait to say her own line. In spite of all this she had a certain quality, a "Je ne sais quoi" that made her likable... perhaps it's that proverbial "it" factor. (Such factor was completely missing from the likes of Norma Shearer, who not only was a terrible actress but was also sorry looking and only nailed an acting career & became famous with rolls she never deserved such as Marie-Antoinette, simply because she married a top Hollywood producer mogul.)

In conclusion, I cannot tell you what's going on in this film, or what there is to like or not like, because I couldn't cope with all the shouting which was way worse than in any of other Jean Harlow film I recall watching. However I'm giving this 5 stars to be fair, and because Jean Harlow is seen in her customary all-white outfits, complete with fur, feathers, sequins and the cut on the bias satin gowns with spaghetti straps that made her famous. Plus the jewelry she was wearing was real diamonds: you can tell by how those huge rocks were glinting against the studio lights. Male or female, somebody needs to get this look out for Halloween costumes, already!

A Haunting: The Diabolical (2006) Season 2, Episode 2

One of the most boring episodes I have seen to date

[3/10 · 22 March 2024]

I don't understand why people think this is scary!? This one was actually one of the most boring and non scary ones of the ones I have seen: there were no entities represented and I like the best when they have a man in Demon makeup full on with the scales and the gray body paint pointy fingernails and yellow eyes LOL

I had never seen the early episodes because they are not on demand which pretty much has the same dozen episodes the air on repeat on the Travel Channel but I caught this one online. It is a bit slow a bit repetitive and all around boring. This one ghost doesn't scare me I would not have moved if it weren't for the fact that their house is barely inches from the neighbors house what is up with that who is that complacent and that submissive that they pay a lot of money to live in a house with neighbors like in an apartment? Even if you think they're not bad neighbors to become problem Neighbors when you can hear everything when they sneeze talk slam doors or play music or TV over there.

The one thing that was different in the beginning that I liked was the editing had rapid fire images you could barely see what they were showing you and I made for interesting editing that must have taken a lot of work on the part of the editors so kudos to them.

However the early episodes were heavily into Christian religion bringing in the priests who magically speak a few incantations from their magic book and poof! The ghosts are gone, LOL and they got everybody scared of them Ouija boards repeating the lie that they open portals for spirits to come through; this is bull and it needs to stop. Ouija board is just a piece of thick cardboard, a game to play and nothing happens whatsoever of the things this show warns about. People: pretty much everything you know is a Lie, from religion to politics and media, and oftentimes who to tell you is the bad guy is actually the good guy ( from presidents to Lucifer) and they tell you to worship the evil guy under guys that he's the good one and they ship your tax dollars off to the bad guys it is all a ruse. And PS if you went back to your roots and your ancestors' beliefs, you would see how evil the Christians were {and still are} when they destroyed everything in their path and they continue, brainwashed that they are, to Crusade across the globe to brainwash other people! It is a plague of evil, and that is the reason why the world is the way it is nothing to do with Ouija boards.

My Haunted House: The Whispering & Ethel (2014) Season 2, Episode 7

Ethel is the better story and that crazy lady is demented to perfection! Watch it for this one.

[8/10 · 16 March 2024]

The first story was nothing to sneeze at, not really scary not really interesting and slow paced. So my rating is for the 2nd story only, and it was creepy to near perfection. The actress playing Ethel was super demented and quite talented. I had a landlord like this character who would let himself in my tiny cabin in the mountains and so I could relate to the creepiness, but he would help himself to my stuff without asking. This second story was well paced, had enough scary moments (surprisingly no jump-scares here) and tension and overall was well done. It's probably just a 7/10 and, considering the other story, it really deserves no more than 6/10, but I'm in a good mood so let's give this an 8 /10.

A Haunting: Ghost Soldier (2006) Season 2, Episode 7

Compelling story, very well done, with great visual appeal

[9/10 · 14 March 2024]

This was a very well presented and edited story with great cinematography and decor. It went by really fast and I was surprised when there was only 5 minutes to the end; it was that interesting that time flew by. Visually there is a great color palette with unusual color placement chosen by whomever work this departments in the production. There is a lot of apricot lighting and a t-shirt worn by one of the girls which is a very rare color to find for clothing. There are pictures that combine pastels green pink yellow which are very well placed together and a cookie jar in the same color palette it was interesting and I wondered if it meant something or if they were just going out of their way to find visually appealing colors for the story.

There is a close up on beautiful red candles a bright green wall in the background which was unusual and the psychic has a strange Shadow play on her face with extremely long bottom eyelashes that it made me wonder if it was indeed a shadow or it was painted on her cheeks in the end I couldn't figure this out because her eyelashes were actually short so I'm not sure how they lit this scene to make her cheeks look like that.

The woman who played the psychic was very reminiscent of a famous actress, Iliana Douglas, whom she reminded me of, and both the mother and daughter telling the story were very beautiful women with interesting makeup colors: dusty lavender eye-shadow on the mother and soft pink blush on the daughter. There wasn't much insofar as spookiness and scary elements, and the man who played the dead soldier looks more 35 than 19 years old, but whoever chose the colors schemes here, whoever did the makeup and brought the set decor and props, needs to be commanded because they made the episode a lot more enjoyable than it would have been.