Q-ell Betton
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Outside The Wire
Brief synopsis: In a war-torn future, a drone pilot is sent into the field after he disobeys an order, resulting in the death of two soldiers. He finds himself under the command of a top-secret sentient robot chasing after a warlord intent on destroying the world. Or so he is led to believe.
By Q-ell Betton5 years ago in Geeks
Sightless - review (Netflix)
Brief synopsis: After a violinist is blinded in a violent assault, she wakes up in a hospital bed and is told that she will be blind for life. She calls her brother and he arranges an apartment for her and a part-time nurse. When she begins to hear strange sounds and suffer nightmares, she thinks that she might be losing her mind.
By Q-ell Betton5 years ago in Geeks
Hard Kill - review (Netflix)
Brief synopsis: A billionaire hires a group of special forces mercenaries to protect him from a terrorist that wants to kidnap him and retrieve some codes for a new program he has developed. The terrorist is known to the group. He is a man they had believed dead. The terrorist also has the billionaire’s daughter.
By Q-ell Betton5 years ago in Geeks
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom - review (Netflix)
Brief synopsis: successful blues singer, Ma Rainey (Viola Davis), heads north to Chicago to meet up with her band to make a recording of some of her songs. One of her band, Levee (Chadwick Boseman) causes a rift with his ambition and passion.
By Q-ell Betton5 years ago in Geeks
A California Christmas - review (Netflix)
Brief synopsis: a charmer is tasked by his CEO mother with getting a stubborn farm family to sell their farmland so as their company can build a new warehouse. The task is made more difficult when he gets to the farm and is mistaken for a farmhand, a mistake he does not correct. He pretends to be the farmhand in the hope of getting closer to the stubborn daughter.
By Q-ell Betton5 years ago in Geeks
The 2nd - review (Netflix)
Brief Synopsis: a group of mercenaries are tasked with kidnapping a senator’s daughter as she leaves college for the Christmas holidays. Their plans are interrupted when a green beret, the father of one of the daughter’s friends, realises that something is not right and intervenes.
By Q-ell Betton5 years ago in Geeks
Small Axe 'Lovers Rock' - review
As part of a series of films, under the banner of Small Axe, British director Steve McQueen has brought a collection of dramas depicting the life of black people in the seventies and eighties in London. By all accounts, the first of the dramas, Mangrove, was well received.
By Q-ell Betton5 years ago in Geeks
Dolly Parton's Christmas On The Square - review (Netflix)
Brief synopsis: A woman returns to her home town in the run-up to Christmas and causes an uproar when she tells all the proprietors in the town square that they must all leave by Christmas Eve because she has sold the land to a developer. A couple of angels, one that is still in training, hope to help her see the error of her ways.
By Q-ell Betton5 years ago in Geeks
The App That Stole Christmas - review (Netflix)
Brief synopsis: A successful app developer creates an app that eases the burden of shopping over Christmas. Unfortunately, his busy lifestyle sees him neglecting everything in his life because of the business. When he has an accident and falls unconscious, he wakes up in Santa’s warehouse and is tasked with making one hundred toys.
By Q-ell Betton5 years ago in Geeks
The Princess Switch: Switched Again - review (Netflix)
Brief synopsis: A princess, days away from her Christmas Day coronation is given a chance to rekindle her romance with a love she thought lost when a fellow princess, who is her doppelgänger, switches places with her to give her a chance to get the romance back on track. A greedy cousin to the soon-to-be-queen princess, who also bears the same uncanny resembles to the princesses, throws a spanner in the works when she kidnaps one of the princesses.
By Q-ell Betton5 years ago in Geeks
