Movies/TV Archive
02 Jan 2025
Tip of the Day: Max Velocity – Severe Weather Center on YouTube
John C. Dvorak’s Tip of the Day takes us to Max Velocity – Severe Weather Center on YouTube. JCD describes him as a natural born broadcaster that knows how to talk and not stumble.
23 Oct 2024
Tip of the Day: NFL Network’s ‘Football Live’ is Cheaper than NFL RedZone
This is a bit of a confusing tip as I can’t find any show called “NFL Football LIVE” listed on the NFL Network so we’ll have to take JCD’s work that this is available. Apparently, if you subscribe to YouTube TV, NFL Network is an included channel and this show (or feature) will give you
07 Oct 2024
Tip of the Day: Somewhere Street
This time JCD recommends a ‘killer’ travelog tv show on the NHK network (from Japan). You can get NHK on some over-the-air tv stations, or like I do, as a streaming channel on my Apple TV. John C. Dvorak: So, I just want to recommend a TV show. If you get over-the-air broadcasts—which everyone should
13 Jul 2023
The Naked Jungle
Insects are marching north due to climate change and it reminds Dvorak of an old movie called The Naked Jungle. He described it as a great movie about a giant army of ants marching towards civilization. Starring Charlton Heston. [NA1565 1:35]
11 Jul 2023
The Bear
Adam loves The Bear on Hulu. It’s a drama about a Michelin star chef that has to takeover his brother’s Italian Beef sandwich shop in Chicago. [NA1567 1:12]
02 Jan 2023
Died Suddenly
Is the Stew Peters documentary, Died Suddenly, a cover or Google Wash? If you now google search “died suddenly” it takes up the first couple of search pages, according to John C. Dvorak, who also called it a dumb documentary. They both seemed to agree it was an “Op”. Adam said he liked the movie
06 Nov 2020
‘Songbird’ Is The Scariest Movie to Watch During the Pandemic
Adam asked if there’s been many movie productions in the last 8-10 months? The answer, not many! But get ready, because Netflix is now streaming the apocalyptic pandemic thriller, Songbird. In Songbird, the lockdown has been extended and the virus is now attacking brain tissue – death toll is at 110 million and infected Americans
02 Nov 2020
Is Netflix Hiding “The Plot Against the President?”
Adam was being texted by everyone, “You got to see this documentary, The Plot Against the President!” This hot new documentary was supposed to be on Netflix, so Adam attempted to find it with his Roku’s voice search. Unfortunately, the Roku had a hard time finding the movie. Frustratingly, he had to go down sixteen spots
22 Oct 2020
Feathered Cocaine: Follow the Falcon, Find the Terrorist
Feathered Cocaine is a documentary made around 2010 and was maybe discussed on the show around 2011. The film tells the story of underground falcon smuggling. Falcons are treasured by the wealthy elite throughout the Persian Gulf, the sporting birds have earned the label “feathered cocaine.”
16 Oct 2020
My Octopus Teacher: Man’s Best Friend has Eight Tentacles
Adam just watched My Octopus Teacher, “If you haven’t watched this documentary, you haven’t lived! The octopus would recognize him, it would hug him!” 1284: 1:53
07 Jul 2019
Schitt’s Creek
Schitt’s Creek is a new TV comedy from Canada starring Eugene Levy, Catherine O’Hara with Chris Elliott. Produced by the CBC. Adam described it as a borderline Farce and Un-Canadian Good! [1152 2:21]
04 Feb 2019
Kingsman: The Golden Circle
After talking about the new Johnny English movie, Adam said that during discussion on 5G that some show producers pointed that the second Kingsman movie, Kingsman: The Golden Circle had a variation of this – everyone has a phone and a central point can kill you. Dvorak hasn’t seen it yet but liked the first movie
04 Feb 2019
Johnny English: Strikes Again
John Dvorak describes the “new Johnny English movie with Mr Bean – whole movie is about a Silicon Valley guy who is a data monger!” John further said he enjoyed it and admitted to seeing it in a theater. John further said that for admirers of good writing will appreciated a couple of the bits
24 Jan 2019
Bird Box Caused by Cellphones and 5G?
Is the Bird Box a metaphor for the implications of our civilization’s addiction to cell phone use? Adam wasn’t interested in watching Netflix’s hit movie, Bird Box because he didn’t want to watch a stressful movie with Sandra Bullock and some kids in a row boat. Award winning director Susanne Bier made this beautifully shot, but
08 Jan 2019
How Cummings Used Data to Win BREXIT
Comic Strip Blogger sent Adam a link to a video of Dominic Cummings explaining at a marketing conference how they won the BREXIT referendum. Adam describes Cummings as the is the Brad Parscale (ran Trump’s digital media) of BREXIT. Cummings ran the ‘Vote Leave’ campaign and facebook campaigns. Adam likes this stuff because it’s very
16 Nov 2018
Madam Secretary
In a recent episode of CBS’ Madam Secretary the main protagonist of the show, US Secretary of State (played by Tea Leone) seeks advice on how to give a national speech on a recent disaster that occurred at the White House. Like a wise diplomat, she turns to her wise predecessors; Madeline Albright, Colin Powell
02 Sep 2018
The Promise
Adam’s friend told him to watch it the movie drama, The Promise. starring Christian Bale. It takes place during the 1915 Armenian genocide in the Ottoman Empire. The world pretty much stood by and allowed this to happen according to Adam. Dvorak responded that we weren’t a world power then. Currently, Turkey is in economic
02 Sep 2018
Avengers: Infinity War
John C. Dvorak gave the big thumbs down to the movie, Avengers: Infinity War. Worse movie ever in the history of Disney or any company ever… *spoiler alert ahead* Dvorak reports that half the heroes in the Marvel comic universe are killed in the end. “Why do you want to kill everybody? Well, I’ve done the
27 May 2018
Fahrenheit 451
Adam asked John if he saw the remake of Fahrenheit 451. John read bad reviews but mentioned that Ray Bradbury had some involvement with the original. Adam saw it and enjoyed it because everyone was associated with a talking tube which made it relevant to No Agenda. He also thought the visuals were similar to
03 Mar 2018
UnREAL
Unreal is a TV show that takes you behind the scenes of a ficticious reality dating show. John Dvorak says he loves this show and that this is his favorite show in this genre. Unreal features Constance Zimmer that plays the most evil director/producer, (she’s great!) and cutie Sheri Appleby – remember Roswell on WB