Thanks to services like Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime and others - there are thousands of movies and television shows available at any given time. But how do you decide?
Take Two contributor Mark Jordan Legan stops by with this month's Binge offerings, this time - it's all about movies and TV shows that are filled with dramatic action and intrigue.
- In the Line of Fire - (Amazon Prime)
In the 1993 film, Eastwood plays a grizzled, old Secret Service agent who is still haunted by what happened in Dallas in 1963 – he was there to protect JFK and has always second guessed himself about that fateful day. Decades later a mysterious figure starts threatening the current President.
- The Firm (Amazon Prime)
Also from 1993 is the exciting action thriller starring Tom Cruise as a young Harvard Law School grad, who after being heavily recruited by many prestigious law firms, decides to go with a top Memphis firm where everything seems too good to be true… and it isn’t.
- Ray Donovan (Hulu via Showtime)
The Showtime series starring Liev Schreiber has been hailed by fans and critics alike. Schreiber plays an Irish-American from South Boston with a lot of secrets in his past and he currently is a “fixer” for a powerful Hollywood law firm. He takes care of the dirty work for many of the firm’s rich, powerful and troubled clients. But he also has to deal with a troubled family - including his recently released father, played by Jon Voight.
- The Americans (Amazon Prime via FX)
And finally, we go to a show that the Washington Post recently called the best show on TV, The Americans. Matthew Rhys and Keri Russell play what appears to be the perfect American couple living in the suburbs right outside Washington D.C in the year 1981. But what you discover is they are deep cover Russian KGB spies.
is a writer living in Los Angeles - here's a link to see more of the past Binge segments.