Pasckie Pascua's Nerdy Squirrel Reviews: Movies.

“Tetris” (2023, Apple TV+) black comedy thriller , based on true events around the race to license and patent the video game Tetris from Soviet Russia .        Tetris is a puzzle video game created in 1985 by Alexey Pajitnov , a Soviet software engineer . In typical Tetris gameplay, falling tetromino shapes must be neatly sorted into a pile. Once a horizontal line of the game board is filled in, it disappears, granting points and preventing the pile from overflowing. I guess you know that already. As of December 2024, these versions collectively serve as the second-best-selling video game series with over 520 million sales, mostly on mobile devices.        The plot follows Henk Rogers (an involved Taron Egerton) of Bullet-Proof Software , who becomes interested in Tetris during an electronics show in Las Vegas. Desperate to obtain handheld console rights for Nintendo, he takes trips between Japan, the United Sta...

“Neighborhood Watch” (2025, Hulu) crime thriller . A mentally ill young man thinks he witnessed a woman being abducted but the police don't believe him. He gets his neighbor, a retired security guard, to help him search for the missing woman.          Director Duncan Skiles craftily turned Sean Farley's screenplay into an engaging ride. The narrative progressed at a thrilling pace + the performances of Jack Quaid as the mentally-challenged Simon and Jeffrey Dean Morgan as a “still there but out” retired security guard kept things very engaging.         Nice indie watch. 🎥💻📽 “The G” (2023, Amazon Prime) Canadian crime thriller . Stars Dale Dickey as a grandmother seeking revenge. Premise: After a corrupt legal guardian puts Ann, a grandmother, in a care home in order to take her property, Ann looks for vengeance with the help of her granddaughter Emma, who calls her "The G.” The film is set on the indust...

“Pixie” (2020, Paramount+) British comedy thriller. Pixie Hardy sets out to avenge her mother's death and attempts a heist that will give her the means to leave her small-town life behind. When the plan goes horribly wrong, she's forced to team up with a pair of misfits who are clearly in over their heads.         This movie is funny but not very funny, so as to elicit laughter from me. Cute, could be the apt word. The oddball tandem of Ben Hardy and Daryl McCormack, as Frank and Harland, tickles a bit, sure. But it is Olivia Cooke's title character that gets the ball rolling.         And oh Alec Baldwin's Father Hector, with the awful Brit accent, isn't funny at all. 🎥💻📽 “Frances Ferguson” (2019, Tubi) comedy film . Frances Ferguson is a dissatisfied, unhappily married substitute teacher at a high school in North Platte , Nebraska .          The subject matter is ...

“Tin Soldier” (2025, Hulu) action thriller . When the leader of a dangerous cult triggers a standoff with authorities, a former soldier returns to the compound he left years earlier to find his missing wife and square off against the man he used to follow.          Regardless of its proven lure: Jamie Foxx. Robert De Niro, John Leguizamo , plus Scott Eastwood (Clint's son) and reliable support characters Yul Vazquez and Saïd Taghmaoui, this project by Brad Furman still qualifies as B-movie fare, with some explosions.          “Tin Soldier” is scattered or fragmented, acting is extraordinarily overacted (especially Mr Foxx) and simply a messy heap of genre cliches. 🎥💻📽 “The Ruse” (2024, Tubi) thriller film. A young in-home caregiver fears for her life after being assigned to a mysterious, elderly patient in a remote seaside home.         This little movie by a ...