Movie and TV Reviews - April 2022

Short reviews of movies and TV shows we watched in April. It's baseball season now so there won't be as many as last month.

Movies

• Moonfall: To quote Grace Slick: "When logic and proportion have fallen floppy dead". (Amazon Prime)
• The Green Knight. I was expecting a schlocky action movie and instead got a 70s-style arthouse flick. As usual, the plot didn't make a lot of sense, but it was very moody and evocative. (Amazon Prime)
• Uncharted: It's a decent action flick, with all the usual elements, but the final quarter of the movie strained my willing suspension of disbelief past the breaking point.
• Zeros and Ones: This looked like a B-grade action flick, but turned out to be a dark, moody mess. It does star Ethan Hawke, but he hardly ever speaks. We gave up after half an hour. (Amazon Prime)

TV Shows

• Halo: This is based on the hit video game of the same name. Shows and movies based on video games generally haven't been very good, but this one has high production values and an interesting plot.
• Prime Suspect: Tennison. This series is a prequel to the hugely successful Prime Suspect series with Helen Mirren. Stephanie Martini is quite good as are the minor characters. I do wish there had been another season.
• Nancy Drew (season 2): If there was really this much supernatural stuff going on in a Maine town, it would be headline news all over the world. I would have preferred more mystery and less supernatural.
• Harry Wild: A retired literature professor becomes a private eye solving crimes that appear to be based on books. It's an interesting idea, but it makes the plots even more contrived than usual for this kind of series. (Acorn TV)