Author: Derrick Murray

Derrick Murray is a Los Angeles based stand up comedian, writer, and co-host for The Jack of All Nerds Show.

We are just about a week away from the arrival of Marvel Studios’ most unlikely buddy cop duo, “Falcon and the Winter Soldier.” Easily one of the most anticipated series coming to Disney+, the prospect of the show was actually one of the reasons I was keen to purchase the streaming service in the first place. Of course, the pandemic threw just about everything into chaos, mucking up release schedules that were clearly set in motion years ahead and leaving the studio scrambling and guessing all over the place to re-plot the course. With that, we were given “WandaVision” as…

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When it comes to poorly reviewed films, I’ve talked at length about too many narratives unfolding at once as being a common mistake among a majority of them. “Dark Crimes” has the opposite problem (kind of) in that I’m not even entirely sure it has a one single narrative to begin with. Most of the time I can piecemeal a plot together from fragments of whatever is unfolding, but I’m not entirely sure “Dark Crimes” even has a singular plot to summarize. A brooding, grotesquely sexualized crime drama, the film is plagued by an indecipherable script and gloomy asthetic, clinging…

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As someone with an unhealthy obsession with true crime and serial killers, “Eye for an Eye” (1996) is exactly the kind of revenge thriller I should have in top recommendations. On paper, it has the basic layout of a run of the mill mom turned revenge huntress. With its star studded cast, this should’ve been a no brainer for any fan of the genre. Unfortunately, “Eye For an Eye” executes its thin premise so poorly it feels exploitive, desperate to manipulate the emotional rollercoaster of a parent’s worst nightmare with a payoff that feels more shallow than cathartic. Directed by…

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