NETFLIX

THE ADAM PROJECT
* * * *
(Sci-Fi Family Film)

Netflix scores big with this exciting, original sci-fi film that will be enjoyed by the whole family.

Walker Scobell stars with Ryan Reynolds in the Netflix movie The Adam Project.

Ryan Reynolds stars as Adam, a renegade space pilot who time travels back to when he was a 12-year-old boy.

He is on a mission to eliminate time travel, which he father (Mark Ruffalo) had invented and was now being used for the wrong reasons by Ruffalo’s former partner (Catherine Keener).

Adam’s younger self (a charming Walker Scobell) discovers his older self in his shed. The future Adam is searching for his missing and assumed dead wife (Zoe Saldana).

The plot thickens, but never gets too complicated, as young Adam, who is bullied in school, bonds with his macho future self.

Jennifer Garner plays Adam’s widowed mother, who is having trouble keeping it all together.

To tell you more would be spoiling the twists and turns in the best time-travel movie I have ever seen since “Back to the Future.”

The acting is great. The writing is clever and believable. The messages about loving your family and living in the present are loud and clear.

This is one great movie.

PIECES OF HER
* * * ½
(Thriller)

Toni Colette stars in Pieces of Her.

Toni Colette stars as a suburban divorced mother with an incredible past that is slowly revealed as her grown daughter (Bella Heathcote) digs deeper and deeper.

The shocking opening scene lays the groundwork for this eight-episode thriller that is filled with flashbacks and loads of twists and turns.

Colette, one of my favorite actors, is great as Laura, a woman born into wealth (in Rhode Island?) who gets involved with the wrong people who haunt her throughout her life.

THE LAST KINGDOM
* * * ½
(Epic Tale)

Alexander Dreymon stars as Uhtred in The Last Kingdom.

This epic tale of pagans fighting Christians and Danes fighting the English continues for another season.

Uhtred continues fighting to get back his land, wealth and title that was taken from him. Alongside Brida, his faithful companion, in spite of their religious differences. One worships the gods; the other worships God.

There are lots of bloody battles, interesting characters, and changing allegiances leading up to an exciting final battle.

Stay tuned, because there is surely more to come.