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First Viewing Viewing Date: November 25th Via: Blu-ray Plot: On the brink of war, aboard a United States nuclear submarine, a young First Officer stages a mutiny to prevent his Captain from launching his missiles before confirming their orders to do so. Rating: 7.7/10

First Viewing Viewing Date: November 25th Via: Blu-ray Plot: A top New York detective is sent to Los Angeles where he must solve a case involving an old Sicilian Mafia family feud. Rating: 6.2/10

First Viewing Viewing Date: November 25th Via: Blu-ray Plot: Cool black private eye John Shaft is hired by a crime lord to find and retrieve his kidnapped daughter. Rating: 6.3/10

First Viewing Viewing Date: November 24th Via: Blu-ray Plot: When a gold and copper mine collapses in Chile, 33 miners are trapped underground for 69 days as they await a seemingly impossible rescue. Rating: 7.6/10

First Viewing Viewing Date: November 24th Via: Cinema Plot: Eddie Brock attempts to reignite his career by interviewing serial killer Cletus Kasady, who becomes the host of the symbiote Carnage and escapes prison after a failed execution. Rating: 6.3/10

First Viewing Viewing Date: November 24th Via: Stan. Plot: With the help of an irreverent young sidekick, a bank robber gets his old gang back together to organize a daring new heist. Rating: 6.9/10

First Viewing Viewing Date: November 23rd Via: Stan. Plot: A dramatisation of the events leading up to the 1996 Port Arthur massacre in Tasmania. Rating: 7.8/10

Viewed: All four episodes

With the slick, polished production values of a Netflix docuseries (why the hell didn't Netflix snag this instantly?), and featuring tonnes of archival footage & photos, in addition to interviews with a variety of participants, this is a borderline definitive profile of Jim Jones and the events leading up to the Jonestown massacre. The series delves into Jones's upbringing and initially starting his own church, examining how he manipulated people into joining his People's Temple...and then not letting anybody leave. His terrifying tactics are revealed, and the appalling mistreatment of members is discussed. Yet, you grow to understand what the fanatics saw in Jim Jones and how they were ensnared in his trap. The wealth of archival material is truly astonishing, showing Jones's (fake) healings, his sermons, the construction of Jonestown, and the events when Congressman Leo Ryan visited Jonestown - which directly prompted the tragedy. It's astonishingly comprehensive, though a few details were left out that I previously learned from the Casefile podcast on the case (the peaceful life at Jonestown before Jim came there full-time, the extensive "White Night" drills when people were fooled into thinking they were drinking poison, and the food situation got so bad that bugs infested it and people didn't even want to see what they were eating, just to name a few). Nevertheless, this is highly recommended viewing for anybody interested in true-crime documentaries.

First Viewing Viewing Date: November 23rd Via: Blu-ray Plot: A damaged ex-special forces soldier navigating London's criminal underworld seizes an opportunity to assume another man's identity. Rating: 6.3/10

First Viewing Viewing Date: November 22nd Via: iTunes Store Plot: War photographer W. Eugene Smith travels back to Japan where he visually documents the devastating effect of mercury poisoning in coastal communities, seeking to share the images with the whole in Life Magazine and raise awareness. Rating: 7.6/10

First Viewing Viewing Date: November 22nd Via: Blu-ray Plot: A bush pilot is hired to go to Mexico to free an innocent American prisoner. Rating: 6.4/10

First Viewing Viewing Date: November 21st Via: iTunes Store Plot: Skip tracer Tommy looks for bail-jumper Lou Ann. Her crime is marrying Roy, who left counterfeit money in their mobile home and got her arrested. She leaves Roy, and steals his pink Cadillac full of money, but his criminal friends want their money back. Rating: 5.7/10

First Viewing Viewing Date: November 21st Via: iTunes Store Plot: After a remote diamond mine collapses in far northern Canada, a ‘big-rig’ ice road driver must lead an impossible rescue mission over a frozen ocean to save the trapped miners. Rating: 6.4/10

First Viewing Viewing Date: November 20th Via: Paramount+ Plot: Margot, a young woman who was abandoned by her mother as a baby, travels to a secluded Amish community with a documentary film crew seeking answers about her mother and extended family. Rating: 5.3/10