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A Very Venice Romance (2023)
Nice Venice landscape
The views of Venice make this movie. As for the plot, it's a typically predicable Hallmark movie plot about two people who clash a little and then find their mural attraction too much to resist. The woman works for a business that adds supplements to prepared meals. The main chef quits so she needs to hire a new chef and decides on a terrific Italian chef. When he wasn't positive to her advances over the phone, she decided that she has to fly to Venice to see him in person to make her pitch. Little things bother me and this one had the female star in NYC in the afternoon calling the man who is in Venice. She says to her father "I have to call now because it's morning in Venice". NOT. Venice is 6 hours ahead of Eastern time so afternoon in NYC is nighttime in Venice, not morning.
Dziewczyna i kosmonauta (2023)
Good premise but sloppy execution
The good part is that this is a short series. But the series was poorly done. This movie was shot as a series of flashbacks, many of which just retold what viewers already new. If that is how the story was written, shame on the author. But the film folks still could have rewritten the screenplay. This could have been a wonderful movie, if told chronologically, about 2 astronauts vying for a both a chance to orbit the earth and a chance at the same girl. It could have been a movie done like Top Gun. Instead the flashbacks take the life and suspense out of the movie. The acting might have been good but the people who did the overdubbing were not. I've seen a lot of dubbed foreign films done well. This was not. There are better movies out there. I'm sorry I wasted my time on this one so spare yourselves.
Monarch (2022)
Poor writing and acting doom this show
This show is a "Nashville" wanna be. Sadly, it's not even close. Cover versions of songs sung by mostly so so singers don't help. But the biggest problem is the terrible script writing and a plot that has more holes than Swiss cheese. Anna Friel is a good actress. Trace Atkins is just not a good actor. He's a decent baritone singer who should stick to singing. Beth Ditto is a former rock singer. I can't say she should go back to her band because I didn't find them to be very good either. I don't know if this show will be renewed for another season or not. My vote is no - but it doesn't matter. There won't be another season for me anyway. They'd need to get rid of some of the cast and all of the writers in order for this show to be even mildly interesting and engaging.
A Christmas Exchange (2020)
Where was the tension.
I though the acting was ok. Laura Vandervoot was decent like she was in V, Botten, and Smallville....not great but decent. What was missing was a plot. Did I miss something? Why did Patrick even lie about who he was? I though I had fallen asleep snd missed the part where we learned that they were enemies, rivals, related or some other reason why he felt compelled to lie about him being Patrick. No. They exchanged properties for the holidays. They exchanged emails. Got to know one another snd then met. That's it. The dog was very good in the show considering that he went hours upon hours without Patrick ever taking him out. I guess he went on the script and that was the issue.