Blue Bloods

Blue Bloods is a TV series about a New York City family with a tradition in law enforcement. This is from the producers of The Sopranos and kinda has that feel. Three generations of law enforcement are represented and just like any normal family there are arguments and disagreements but underneath an unbreakable bond.

The Lone Gunmen

I have always loved the electric guitar playing the Star Spangled Banner!

The Lone Gunmen was a Fox Network spin-off of the X-Files. The last episode was aired mid 2001. It is about 3 good-hearted conspiracy reporters who publish a very small underground newspaper called The Lone Gunman. The mission for their newspaper is to root out conspiracies and coverups because they strongly believe the people have a right to know the truth, For the record I agree and that’s one of the many reasons I enjoyed this so much.

12 Dates of Christmas

Kate Stanton(played by Amy Smart) has to relive Christmas eve until she things end up right. Every time she gets it wrong it’s back to the beginning again. Sure it is an idea that has been used many times before, but that doesn’t keep this movie from being a fun Christmas movie.

Nikita

Nikita is a young woman who was rescued from death row by a secret organization called ‘Division’. At Division she was trained in all types of covert operations. Once mission ready Nikita was repeatedly required to do things that were unspeakable and horrible.  After a while she secretly finds comfort, hope, and Love with a good man. ‘Division’ learns of her relationship and takes that away from her with violence. Broken from the deeds required of her and the Love taken from her Nikita escapes ‘Division’ and after a few years she returns intent upon bringing division down.

Zeitgeist 2007

Zeitgeist defined: The Zeitgeist is the intellectual fashion or dominant school of thought that typifies and influences the culture of a particular period in time. Wikipedia

This is a serious documentary about social, and ecological problems that need to be faced if we are not to turn George Orwell into a profit if we haven’t already.

We Bought a Zoo

This has got to be one of the very best family movies made. Matt Damon plays Benjamin Mee, a widowed man raising two children. Benjamin decides to give up a successful newspaper career and move his family to the country. They decide to buy a run-down zoo for their new start! The zoo becomes a labor of Love. The Mee family, along with a truly dedicated staff and Benjamin’s reluctant brother, struggle to return the zoo and facilities to their former splendor.

Wolfblood

Wolfblood is a young teen werewolf television series. The main character is a girl in her low teens. She and her family are werewolves but as the series begins she hasn’t gone through her first transformation yet and the anticipation is causing her stress. As in most werewolf stories, werewolves in Wolfblood need to keep their condition secret, even from their normal friends and this is stressful for her. Soon she meets a new schoolmate and her situation complicates.

Wolfblood is a pleasant program with good acting, very basic but effective special effects, and good writers.

Available on: Hulu Plus, Amazon, Netflix, Youtube

Cleanskin

Cleanskin is about a covert operative, Ewen, and his partner, Mark, who get orders to stop a terrorist element in the city they know has a target in mind. Sean Bean plays Ewen who ruthlessly pursues his job. Ewen is haunted by his past and reacts with extreme violence to all threats. The adversary is a young Muslim man who has been seduced into extremism by a mentor.

Bridgend

Not so fun but I need to do this one. Thank you for your understanding.

Bridgend, South Wales has had a huge number of deaths by apparent suicide. There were 79 hangings from January 2007 to February 2012 alone. That’s just hanging there were other methods too, and the suicides have not stopped. Strange is the lack of suicide notes and how quickly people seem to go from apparently fine to dead by their own hand.

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.