Pasckie Pascua's Nerdy Squirrel Reviews: Movies.

“She Walks in Darkness” (2025, Netflix) Spanish political thriller. The plot follows Amaia, a Guardia Civil agent going undercover for years within the ETA ranks seeking to crack the location of the group's multiple weapons caches scattered in southern France.        Formed in 1959, ETA or Euskadi Ta Askatasuna is the armed Basque separatist organization in Spain and France.        Apparently the ETA's life is a significant subject matter in Spain's history but this political thriller, starting with Susana Abaitua's performance as Amaia, is lazily one-dimensional. No thrill to engage with, dramatic tension is lacking, and the pace is dragging. 🎥💻📽 “Another Round” (2020, Plex) Danish black comedy-drama. F our high school teachers experiment with maintaining a constant level of alcohol in their blood to boost creativity and confidence.         Deftly directed by the reliable...

“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...