Movies & Television

Taxi Brooklyn

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Taxi Brooklyn (TV Show, 2014)

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Dramedy | Crime & Police
Rated TV-14
3.5 Stars

Lead Cast: Chyler Leigh (Cat), Jacky Ido (Leo)

Synopsis: “Taxi Brooklyn is a French-American action-comedy” police television show. “Caitlin “Cat” Sullivan is an NYPD detective working in Brooklyn. After her driving privileges are suspended, she relies on Leo Romba, a Brooklyn cab driver from France. Leo becomes Cat’s driver and a de facto consultant on her cases. While solving crimes with Leo, Cat is also running her own unauthorized investigation into the death of her father, an NYPD detective thought to have been executed by the Capella crime family. In doing so, she clashes with her boss, Captain Baker, and her ex-husband Gregg, who has picked up the case for the FBI.” -Wikipedia 

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Life

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Life (TV Show, 2007-2009)

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Dramedy | Crime & Police
Rated TV-14
4.5 stars

Lead Cast: Damian Lewis (Crews), Sarah Shahi (Reese)

The NBC television show Life is pretty good! I’ve only just finished the first season but I look forward to finishing the whole show (after which I’ll hopefully remember to come back and add to this post).

Synopsis:

IMDB gives a very brief description: “A former police officer [Charlie Crews] returns to the force after having been wrongly imprisoned for years.” Albeit brief ’tis accurate.

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Hector and the Search for Happiness

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Hector and the Search for Happiness (Movie, 2014)

Hector and the Search for Happiness

Dramedy | Adventure | Life
Rated R
4 Stars

Lead Cast: Simon Pegg (Hector), Rosamund Pike (Clara)

Okay. Okay. Okay yeah. Well I’ve seen this pop up on Netflix but never really got around to watching it because “search for happiness”??? What?? But I watched the trailer and decided that yeah I’m going to watch it. Give it a go.

Synopsis: A psychiatrist named Hector is the ultimate definition of the slang term “square.” His life is a literal flat-line. But it’s fine. But ya know what? Contentment is not the same thing as happiness.  Continue reading →

Benny and Joon

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Benny and Joon (Movie, 1993)

Benny and Joon

Dramedy | Romance | Family
Rated PG
5 stars

Lead Cast: Johnny Depp (Sam), Mary Stuart Masterson (Joon), Aidan Quinn (Benny)

This movie perhaps can be called a classic in that it is beautiful, simple, complex, and delightful. It is a movie made twelve years ago and yet still holds its own without seeming obviously dated or held back. The leaps and bounds that have been made in the film industry since 1993 do not take away from the soul of this film and thus it holds its own and in my eyes becomes a classic.  Continue reading →

Hjørdis

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Hjørdis (TV Mini-Series, 2015)

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Comedy | International
Rated TV-PG
4 Stars

Lead Cast: Lise Baastrup (Hjørdis), Martin Brygmann (Gert), Ellen Hillingsø (Helle)

This is a Danish television mini-series about a school teacher named Hjørdis who, for the end of the school’s anti-bullying week, is putting together a performance with the students but then when the crown Princess Mary suddenly pops up on the guest list her plans go awry.  Continue reading →