Miss Willoughby and the Haunted Bookshop

Whilst it passed an hour and a half pleasantly enough, I felt cheated by the title. Certainly OK for a Sunday afternoon, and with decent acting and production values, but a little spookiness wouldn't have harmed it at all.

This looked like the usual, cookie cutter mystery, where the good brilliant and the bad are devious and all pulled from a generic pool of heros and villians. This does that but really just skimmed the top of the pool, got the most generic cut and ran with it ... That by itself is not abad thing, it is exactly what is expected and there is a certain comfort in that. However once they had these characters they did nothing with them, the bad were just bad ( in every way) and the good were just meh ( not anything more than a meh ). Getting the the real plot of the story it felt like the whole thing was just lumped together to fill time and make some sort of plot that almost, would work ... swiss cheese is glad it does not have this many plot holes ! The story feels like it was written in a afternoon, and directed in 2. The upside is Kelsey Grammar is really fun to watch, he made me want to believe a little more, I even to a air bit enjoyed Nathalie Cox in her role, although it did feel her direction was somwhat unimaginative. I think I am being pretty fair with a 4.

This movie reminded me of the made-for-tv movies of the week from the 1980's. It just wasn't very good. The most interesting character was a little obnoxious.

This is pretty terrible. I think it's designed for care homes and the like, with viewers watching slack-jawed. I assume they are hoping they can make a never ending series of these a la Murder She Wrote.

We watch a lot of Hallmark mysteries that all have a predictable, boring plot that normally ends up with the heroine kicking the gun out of the perp's hand (after the confession, of course). This movie had a plot that was just as bad, only this heroine manages to kick 2 guns out. Bravo! At least this is only a one off.