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First Viewing Viewing Date: November 28th Via: Blu-ray Plot: A ruthless mercenary renounces violence after learning his soul is bound for hell. When a young girl is kidnapped and her family slain by a sorcerer's murderous cult, he is forced to fight and seek his redemption slaying evil. Rating: 7.2/10

First Viewing Viewing Date: November 26th Via: iTunes Store Plot: In 1971, a young and disoriented British soldier is accidentally abandoned by his unit following a riot on the deadly streets of Belfast. Rating: 7.3/10

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