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ZERO DAY – Review by Susan Granger

February 26, 2025February 27, 2025 Susan Granger Angela Bassett, Eric Newman, jesse plemons, joan allen, Lesli Linka Glatter, matthew modine, Michael J. Schmidt, netflix, Noah Oppenheim, robert de niro, television series, Zero Day

One of 2025’s most anticipated ‘new’ Netflix releases – Zero Day – marking Robert De Niro’s first leading role in a television series – is a dreadful disappointment. Obviously ‘green lit’ before the Trump tidal wave swept the Presidential election, it’s filled with unfulfilled promises. As a political thriller, it has a provocative premise: a catastrophic terrorist cyberattack disables computers throughout the nation. Planes crash. Cars collide. Hospitals shut down. Wall Street, including the New York Stock Exchange, halts. All forms of digital communication cease to exist. The concept is truly terrifying.

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MISS VIRGINIA – Review by Carol Cling

October 19, 2019October 19, 2019 Carol Cling 0 Comments erin o'connor, matthew modine, miss virginia, motion picture institute, rj daniel hnn, uzo aduba

Just because a movie’s based on a true story doesn’t mean it’s entirely truthful. That’s certainly true of Miss Virginia, a fact-based drama about a single mother who turns community activist to save her son — and, by extension, other sons and daughters — from the mean streets of turn-of-the-millennium Washington, D.C.