Q-ell Betton
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I write stuff. A lot.
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Ma Rainey's Black Bottom - review (Netflix)
Brief synopsis: successful blues singer, Ma Rainey (Viola Davis), heads north to Chicago to meet up with her band to make a recording of some of her songs. One of her band, Levee (Chadwick Boseman) causes a rift with his ambition and passion.
By Q-ell Betton3 years ago in Geeks
A California Christmas - review (Netflix)
Brief synopsis: a charmer is tasked by his CEO mother with getting a stubborn farm family to sell their farmland so as their company can build a new warehouse. The task is made more difficult when he gets to the farm and is mistaken for a farmhand, a mistake he does not correct. He pretends to be the farmhand in the hope of getting closer to the stubborn daughter.
By Q-ell Betton3 years ago in Geeks
The 2nd - review (Netflix)
Brief Synopsis: a group of mercenaries are tasked with kidnapping a senator’s daughter as she leaves college for the Christmas holidays. Their plans are interrupted when a green beret, the father of one of the daughter’s friends, realises that something is not right and intervenes.
By Q-ell Betton3 years ago in Geeks
Small Axe 'Lovers Rock' - review
As part of a series of films, under the banner of Small Axe, British director Steve McQueen has brought a collection of dramas depicting the life of black people in the seventies and eighties in London. By all accounts, the first of the dramas, Mangrove, was well received.
By Q-ell Betton3 years ago in Geeks
Dolly Parton's Christmas On The Square - review (Netflix)
Brief synopsis: A woman returns to her home town in the run-up to Christmas and causes an uproar when she tells all the proprietors in the town square that they must all leave by Christmas Eve because she has sold the land to a developer. A couple of angels, one that is still in training, hope to help her see the error of her ways.
By Q-ell Betton3 years ago in Geeks
The App That Stole Christmas - review (Netflix)
Brief synopsis: A successful app developer creates an app that eases the burden of shopping over Christmas. Unfortunately, his busy lifestyle sees him neglecting everything in his life because of the business. When he has an accident and falls unconscious, he wakes up in Santa’s warehouse and is tasked with making one hundred toys.
By Q-ell Betton3 years ago in Geeks
The Princess Switch: Switched Again - review (Netflix)
Brief synopsis: A princess, days away from her Christmas Day coronation is given a chance to rekindle her romance with a love she thought lost when a fellow princess, who is her doppelgänger, switches places with her to give her a chance to get the romance back on track. A greedy cousin to the soon-to-be-queen princess, who also bears the same uncanny resembles to the princesses, throws a spanner in the works when she kidnaps one of the princesses.
By Q-ell Betton3 years ago in Geeks
Inheritance - review (Netflix)
Brief synopsis: When a wealthy and powerful man dies of a heart attack, he leaves his estranged daughter a strange inheritance and burden. She struggles as she searches for the truth behind the unusual inheritance whilst wanting to protect the family name.
By Q-ell Betton3 years ago in Geeks
The Two Killings Of Sam Cooke - review (Netflix)
The Two Killings Of Sam Cooke is a documentary by Kelly Duane that is emotionally resonant but ultimately underwhelming. In essence, it rehashes the story of Cooke’s death and how it was shrouded in and remains shrouded in mystery. That is the first and obvious killing.
By Q-ell Betton3 years ago in Criminal
Christmas Made To Order - review (Netflix)
Brief synopsis: A workaholic architect hires a specialist Christmas decorator to prepare his home for the holidays as his family are due to visit. As the decorator spends time with him and his family, she helps him to see that his life is more than just work.
By Q-ell Betton3 years ago in Geeks