Dream House

Daniel Craig(James Bond, Cowboys and Aliens) plays Will Atenton, who moves his wife and children to a nice new home. Something isn’t right though, the neighborhood isn’t receiving them as kindly they’d imagined. Even the police coldly ignore his complaint of a trespasser. Some discoveries in the Atenton’s new home begin to indicate a dark past for the house itself…

Homefront

In Homefront Jason Statham plays an ex DEA agent in witness protection. His daughter has an altercation with a bully in school and when she defends herself the bully’s mother gets angry and calls on her family to help her ‘get even’. In the ensuing chain of altercations, incuding the injury of our ex DEA agent’s friend, his identity gets out and here comes the seriously bad guys. 

Sabotage

Arnold Schwarzenegger is the leader of a DEA tactical team. He and his team attempt to steal millions from drug dealers who, of course, are not pleased. Then comes a lot of shouting, shooting, dying , swearing, drinking, and cigar smoking. Oh yes, there was also fast reckless driving and vehicle crashes. All this is made OK because of the sadly traumatized main character.

Odd Thomas

Odd Thomas(Anton Yelchin) is a seriously excellent movie. Odd Thomas is a short-order cook in a town in the California desert. Odd sees dead people and understands them. He also sometimes knows what has happened in the past or might happen in the future. He can also see supernatural creatures.

Snowpiercer

Snowpiercer is a story about a self sufficient super train that becomes the last survivable place on Earth for humanity.

With global warming going out of control scientists develop a strategy for reversing the warming effect, but something goes wrong and the effect goes out of control deep freezing the world and killing anyone.except the people on the train.  People on the train are divided by class with the lowest at the rear of the train. The low class people live in squallier. Conditions worsen and one man decides to act to help his people by leading them in rebellion.

Lilyhammer Series 1

I have overlooked this for quite a while but I finally decided to give Lilyhammer a try, and I and glad I did. This series was tremendous fun. Very high quality acting, really good story, wonderful scenery.

A New York City mobster(Played by Steven Van Zandt one of the coolest people around click here) is put into witness protection and requests Lilyhammer Norway as his new home because he was so impressed with it watching the Olympics in 1994. The request is granted and he is set up with a new name and residence.

Burn Notice

‘Burn Notice’ is about a CIA agent who gets ‘burned’ at which point the agent is cut off from all contact with government agencies, identity removed, bank accounts closed, equipment taken, and dumped in some random city.

The agent that got ‘burned’ is Michael Weston(Jeffery Donovan), and he was dumped with nothing in Miami Florida. Michael is helped by his friends Fiona Glenanne(Gabrielle Anwar) and Sam Axe(Bruce Campbell) and the group is also supported by Mike’s mom Madeline Weston(Sharon Gless). They begin trying to find out who burned Mike and why. Their efforts are repeatedly postponed by aiding people who need help, the kind of help three trained covert operatives can provide.

Undercover Boss

Undercover Boss is just what it says it is big bosses go undercover as a low level employee in his or her own company. In doing so they learn what it is like as a ground level employee. They learn how decisions they make effect their employees. They see first hand how managers handle employees. They find out how upper management is perceived from lower levels. They learn to respect the all-important foundation of their companies. Sometimes they identify especially deserving employees or employees with special needs or that are going above and beyond the call of duty and respond accordingly.

Ripper Street

Ripper Street is a detective drama based on 1889 London’s Whitechapel district (east London). The story begins 6 months after the horrible Jack the Ripper murders. The main character Detective Inspector Edmund Reid(Mathew Macfadyen) along with Detective Sargent Bennet Drake(Jerome Flynn) do their best to fight crime and corruption which is rampant in their city.

Firefly

If you are looking for an utterly unique show to watch this is it. Firefly had one season the last episode was aired July 2003, but there is a huge following of fans to this day…including me! Fans refer to themselves as Browncoats for the uniform coats worn by the main character during his military service.

An ex-military man buys a small cargo spaceship classified as Firefly class and makes himself captain. The captain is joined by a military veteran he served with, her husband as pilot, a gung-ho badass, and a brilliant mechanic as crewmembers. More folks join as the story progresses and I think every character added makes the show better and none are superfluous. Oh there is also a character who rents one of the two shuttles on the Firefly and that character really gets my attention!