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Due to Lack of Traffic, I'm Shutting This Down
This experiment with wix.com has failed. I'll be bringing all the content from this website back to Jim's Jumbler, which is where the...
Aug 15, 20201 min read
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Review of "Coma" (Eng. dub)
* * * B Coma is a Russian science fiction film about a world built from the memories of people in comas. An architect wakes up in this...
Aug 7, 20201 min read
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Series Review: "Hanna"
* * * B I really liked season 1 of Prime's "Hanna". I'd give it a * * * * A rating. Joel "Takeshi" Kinnaman was fantastic as Hanna's...
Aug 5, 20201 min read
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Review of "The Invisible Man"
* * * B I finally got around to watching the 2020 remake of H.G.Wells classic "The Invisible Man". This film does an excellent job at...
Aug 5, 20201 min read
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Series Review: "Collateral" (mild spoilers)
* Collateral is a Netflix/BBC four part miniseries crime drama about the police investigation of the London murder of an illegal...
Jul 15, 20202 min read
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Review of "The Last Days of American Crime"
* This near future science fiction film, based on a graphic novel, has a premise that I found hard to suspend my disbelief for. That is,...
Jul 12, 20201 min read
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Review of "The Old Guard" (mild spoilers)
* * * B Charlize "Furiosa" Theron leads a band of immortal mercenaries. While they are hunting down an employer (Chiwetel Ejiofor) who...
Jul 11, 20201 min read
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Series Review: "Marcella (Seasons 1-3)"
* * * B Marcella is a British Netflix series about a stay at home mother who, when her husband leaves her, returns to her job as a...
Jul 6, 20202 min read
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Review of "Debt Collectors"
* * C Two debt collectors for the mob, French (Scott Adkins) and Sue (Louis Mandylor, who played Tula's brother in My Big Fat Greek...
Jul 3, 20201 min read
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Welcome to JMDB - Jim's MeDia Blog
I decided to create a dedicated movie blog so that people interested in movies, television, and books don't have to skip my political,...
Jun 21, 20201 min read
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Series I’m Anticpating (or not) in 2020
This is what Wix does when you import a WordPress post that has HTML formatting. I'll create an upcoming series page in future to replace...
Feb 4, 20202 min read
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Review of “October Faction” (episodes 1 & 2)
* D The writing is cringily bad, with “jokes” that consistently fail to land. The teen drama is awful, worse than in Twilight or...
Jan 27, 20201 min read
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Reviews of “Messiah” and “Dracula”
Why am I reviewing two series at the same time? To illustrate an interesting point. * * * * A I really enjoyed this series, and hope that...
Jan 16, 20201 min read
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Films I’m Anticipating (or not) in 2020
Here’s a list of the films coming in 2020 that look interesting or not worth watching. I’ll continue to update as new films are...
Jan 6, 20205 min read
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Review of “Freaks” (mild spoilers)
* * * B The X-Men property I’d most closely compare Freaks to is The Gifted. It has the same oppression of mutants, and an even darker...
Dec 29, 20191 min read
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Review of “The Last Jedi” (Ivan Ortega’s edit)
* * * B The improvements that work the best for me are: General Hux is now a serious villain Luke actually trains Rey as a Jedi The Canto...
Dec 29, 20191 min read
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Film Critics are Failing
Today, for me, Cinemascore is often more accurate than any critic. Recently, critics seem to be going farther and father off the rails....
Oct 26, 20194 min read
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Top 10 Horror Movies of the 90’s
Chronological List of Horror Films as a mnemonic aid. Unlike the 80’s, which were chock-a-block with great horror movies, the 90’s were a...
Sep 6, 20192 min read
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Review of “Captain Marvel”
* * * B The story begins with “Vers” being trained by the alien Kree to fight in the war against the shape shifting Skrulls. She is...
Jul 29, 20191 min read
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Underrated: “Glass”
* * * B Split“, which in an epilogue twist was revealed to be the sequel to his second film, “Unbreakable”, is a worthy conclusion to the...
Apr 21, 20192 min read
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