By Dave B.

In Treehouse, Bloomhouse’s newest installment of the Into the Dark series of horror films, celebrity chef Peter Rake (Jimmi Simpson) flakes out on spending the weekend with his daughter to instead go to the house where he grew up and spend time with his sister, who he hasn’t seen in years. After his sister is called away on a work emergency, Peter invites some chance-met and beautiful women over to his house for dinner after their bachelorette party is cut short by a power outage. There’s more to these guests than meets the eye however, and to have any change of surviving the night, Peter must confront a lifetime of his own misdeeds. 

By Dave B.

"Premieres" will feature official trailers and synopses from what I feel looks like the most interesting (or the only, in some cases) original programming coming out in the subsequent week on Hulu, Amazon Prime, Netflix, and elsewhere. In no way to these previews represent recommendations or reviews. My intent is to post this segment each Thursday or Friday, but we'll see. Enjoy!

By Dave B.

In Triple Frontier (Netflix) a squad of former U.S Army Rangers hatches a risky plan: steal tens of millions of dollars from a Brazilian drug lord and execute him to break his harmful hold on the Triple Frontier, a largely lawless region of South America. From jump, things don’t go according to plan. As small errors grow into larger ones, the battle-hardened, but slightly over-the-hill group of ex-soldiers find their former oaths tested and their personal honor broken as they try to move millions of dollars over the Andes mountains to the Pacific Ocean.

By Dave B.

​"Premieres" will feature official trailers and synopses from what I feel looks like the most interesting (or the only, in some cases) original programming coming out in the subsequent week on Hulu, Amazon Prime, Netflix, and elsewhere. In no way to these previews represent recommendations or reviews. My intent is to post this segment each Thursday or Friday, but we'll see. Enjoy!

By Dave B.

​In Skyscraper (2019), Dwayne Johnson plays a former FBI SWAT team leader who lost the lower part of his left leg and most of his team (as well as a family being held hostage) after hesitating in the line of duty. Years later, he’s an independent security consultant who’s been given the opportunity of a lifetime: testing the security and safety systems of the tallest building in the world, a ridiculously lavish skyscraper in Hong Kong. His family moves into the building with him, as the project is fairly time consuming. So when gangsters attempt to destroy the building in a complex scheme to silence the building’s billionaire owner, Johnson springs into action (or more accurately hops on one leg, which is something that he does several times throughout the film) in order to save his family (the only people living in the building, of course) from a rapidly rising inferno.

By Dave B.

Love, Death & Robots, Netflix’s newest sci-fi anthology series, consists of 18 animated shorts that explore topics ranging from courage, sexuality, horror, revenge, and hope. If you imagine a mashup of The Animatrix and Black Mirror, you’d have a pretty good starting point for imagining the format of the series. The stories take place in a variety of settings from the grand cosmos to a freezer in a small kitchen. With episodes ranging in runtime from between six and 17 minutes, the series takes about three hours to get through if one were inclined to binge watch it. 

By Dave B. 

In the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s newest release, a Kree warrior, named Vers (played by Brie Larson), suffering from amnesia discovers that her true origins lie on Earth, leading her to question the reality of the few things that she does remember. Vers immerses herself into a battle of galactic proportions, with the help of old friends and new, in order to protect the innocent and discover not only who she was, but who she is and is meant to be. 

By Dave B.

​"Premieres" will feature official trailers and synopses from what I feel looks like the most interesting (or the only, in some cases) original programming coming out in the subsequent week on Hulu, Amazon Prime, Netflix, and elsewhere. In no way to these previews represent recommendations or reviews. My intent is to post this segment each Thursday or Friday, but we'll see. Enjoy!

By Dave B. 

In The Passage, FOX’s newest action/horror television show, stars Mark-Paul Gossleaar as Agent Brad Wolgast (AKA “The Agent”) and Saniyya Sidney as Amy Bellafonte. The Agent is tasked with recruiting death row inmates for a dangerous military experiment that’s intended to cure all diseases. When all of the experiments end in failure, the doctors come up with a new plan: trying the treatment on a much younger guinea pig. The Agent is assigned to bring the recently orphaned Amy to a top secret facility hidden in rural Colorado. As he redevelops a conscience, he realizes that protecting Amy is his new mission in life. But the military won’t be easily deterred from its goals and the survivors of the experiments have developed a lethal scheme to take out their vengeance on the entire world. Amy, with the help of The Agent, represents humankind’s only hope of survival against a plague that’s unlike any the world has ever seen. 

By Dave B. 

In Close (Netflix), Sam (Noomi Rapace) is a military contractor assigned to be the bodyguard of Zoe, a pampered teenage heiress who recently inherited her father’s majority shares in one of the largest mining companies in the world. Sam and Zoe travel to Morocco where Zoe’s stepmother wants to keep an eye on the wayward girl while she seeks to close a multi-billion dollar deal that would cripple a rival Chinese consortium. When an attempt to kidnap Zoe fails due to Sam’s heroics, the pair find themselves cast adrift in Morocco with no allies, forced to rely on each other to survive long enough to unravel the plot that threatens them both.