Nerdy Squirrel Reviews by Pasckie Pascua

“All the Light We Cannot See.” (Netflix) war drama limited series . Based on Anthony Doerr 's Pulitzer Prize winning novel of the same name , this miniseries follows a blind French girl and a German soldier, whose paths cross in occupied France during World War II . Stars relative unknowns Aria Mia Loberti and Louis Hofmann .         Ms Loberti won her inaugural role as the titular blind French teenage girl Marie-Laure LeBlanc, from a global search of thousands of actresses. Mr Hofmann may be “new” per American audience but in Europe, he is already a respected young actor. He won the Bodil Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as a teenage German prisoner of war in the 2015 Danish film “ Land of Mine .” On Netflix, we know him as Jonas in the 2017 cerebral German series “ Dark .” Louis is Werner Pfennig, a young German boy who eventually becomes a soldier specializing in detecting and tracking radio frequencies.        To add Hollywood gravitas to the series, two bankab

“The Burial” (2023, Amazon Prime) legal drama . Loosely based on the true story of lawyer Willie E. Gary and his client Jeremiah Joseph O'Keefe 's lawsuit against the Loewen funeral company , as documented in the 1999 New Yorker article of the same name by Jonathan Harr . Courtroom jousts are best in TV series firmament, beyond David E. Kelley, Michelle King and Robert King even. But “The Burial” offers fine performers, so why not?          Jamie Foxx is Willie E. Gary and Tommy Lee Jones is Jeremiah O'Keefe . Although Jamie is all swagger and Tommy is all restraint, “The Burial,” as in other true to life cinema, offers me a compelling story to dig further.         In 1995, financially troubled funeral home owner Mr O'Keefe was forced to sell parts of his business to meet financial demands by the Mississippi State Insurance Commission. He makes a contract with Raymond Loewen of the Loewen Group , who never follows through on their oral agreement. His young lawyer H

“Tulsa King.” (Paramount+ via Amazon) c rime drama or comedy drama or dramedy action, whatsoever suits you. I am not really a huge fan of Sylvester Stallone , regardless of “Rocky I,” but hey that was 47 years ago! Yet I need to admit that I am on Taylor Sheridan fix and I thought the writer isn’t going to lose (at least for me). Add co-creator Terence Winter of “The Sopranos” and “Boardwalk Empire” fame, plus his remarkable screenplay of Martin Scorsese 's “ The Wolf of Wall Street .”         But this Tulsa whatever is a disappointment.         Mr Stallone is Dwight "The General" Manfredi, a New York Mafia capo who has just finished serving a 25-year prison sentence. Upon release, his boss sends him to Tulsa, Oklahoma to establish criminal operations there. Not knowing anyone in the area, the General seeks a new crew to help establish his empire. Sure, y’all gangster cinema fans like me, have lumbered into the same Mafiosi drill before. That’s okay, as long as we get

“Kingdom.” Netflix. South Korean political period horror. 2 Seasons. Adapted from the webcomic series “The Kingdom of the Gods” by Kim Eun-hee and Yang Kyung-il. First, I am enthralled by the facility of movement and ease of action despite the confoundingly elaborate old-Korea jeogori and honbok costumes. And the “gat” hats! Perplexing. I wouldn’t be able to tilt or twist my noggin with that headgear, and yet they do Martial Arts sequences and swashbuckling swordplay with the double-edged “geom” with such a get-up. Ha!        To add intrigue, this is a zombie movie, okay? And mind you, the undead here are like those hyper thingies in the 2013 Brad Pitt movie “World War Z.” They do run like Usain Bolt trainees! But seriously, the series is well-done. I already gave up two Asian historical series—“King’s War” and “The Rise of Phoenixes”—but “Kingdom” is good. In fact, a special episode, titled "Kingdom: Ashin of the North,” is set for release this year and will be focusing on the su