It’s funny what you find when digging through old files. The other day, I stumbled across a review I wrote years ago for The Da Vinci Code, Ron Howard’s 2006 adaptation of Dan Brown’s blockbuster novel starring Tom Hanks as symbologist Robert Langdon.
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Every so often, I dig through old files and find a movie review I forgot I wrote. This one goes way back to 2007, when I was writing for a now-defunct site called Coverups.com. Since Cool Filmz gives me a place to dust off these older reviews, I figured Richard Donner’s Conspiracy Theory was worth revisiting.
“Ho. Ho. Ho. Now I have a machine gun.”
That is not exactly the kind of line you expect from a cozy holiday classic. It is not Bing Crosby by the fireplace. It is not Jimmy Stewart rediscovering the meaning of life in Bedford Falls. It is Hans Gruber reading a message scrawled on the body of one of his henchmen after John McClane has officially begun ruining the Nakatomi Plaza Christmas party.
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Turning on an old favorite can feel like catching up with a friend you forgot you missed.
My wife and I are always looking for a show that can meet somewhere in the middle of our tastes: action and suspense for me, history and character drama for her. A good thriller usually gives us common ground, and Dark Winds turned out to be exactly that kind of show.
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Some thrillers begin with a premise so strange that you cannot help but lean in. The Accident, a Mexican thriller-drama series on Netflix, certainly has one of those premises.
Step into The Midas Files, a Pittsburgh-rooted techno-thriller series where quantum mystery, ancient power, corporate ambition, and otherworldly secrets collide. Start the journey with The Midas Protocol: Midas Files Book One by Matt De Reno.
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