A Long Way Down – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Overview A suicide pact between strangers creates lifesaving friendships. Trigger Warning(s): Conversations about Suicide
Author: Amari Allah
Amari is the founder and head writer of Wherever-I-Look.com and has been writing reviews since 2010, with a focus on dramas and comedies.
A La Mala – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Overview A young actress finds herself testing men’s fidelities while she waits for her big break. One which may come if she does one last job.
Westworld: Season 1/ Episode 1 "The Original" [Series Premiere] – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Overview You know, the expectations which come from a show being part of the HBO brand often waver between being the next big thing or proof that all these premium stations have is the ability to be far more sexual and violent than their peers. With Westworld, you have to admit it seems a show…
A Ballerina’s Tale – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Overview To begin, A Ballerina’s Tale is not a full coverage of Misty Copeland’s life from birth to her becoming the principal dancer at the American Ballet Theater. It is more so an overview of her professional career, with a strong feature on the history of Ballet, as well as Black women’s role in the…
6 Years – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
While finding and being with your high school sweetheart is seen as an ideal and romanticized, “6 Years” pushes a reminder of the challenges of getting with someone, and staying with them, throughout the most transformative years of your life.
50 Shades of Black – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Plot Overview A young woman meets a rich man who demeans her verbally and physically, yet she keeps giving him chances for reasons never really explained. Rating: Skip It
5 to 7 – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
When you combine the talents of Olivia Thirlby, Anton Yelchin, as well as Glenn Close and Frank Langella, it is hard to not feel a bit reassured that the film should be decent. Especially since Yelchin is the star and we learn he plays a young aspiring writer who gets involved in an affair. Now,…
5 Flights Up – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Overview While 5 Flights Up touches on a handful of social issues, like gentrification, racial profiling, ageism, and racism to a certain degree, it pretty much is a light film dealing with an older couple trying to decide what’s next in their lives? Review (with Spoilers) – Below
+1 – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Admittedly, I was drawn into this movie for it seemed like it would sort of be like About Time since it seemingly featured a guy trying to work things out with his girlfriend after failing the first time, but seemingly getting a second chance due to time travel. However, as the trailer went on, and…
20 Feet From Stardom – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Overview Behind the voices of Michael Jackson, Stevie Wonder, Luther Vandross, Sting, Elton John, The Rolling Stones, and many others, were Black background singers that did more than just sing the hook, but give these musicians soul! This is their stories.
12 Years a Slave – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
12 Years A Slave tests your ability to stand the gruesomeness of slavery and, to me, it seems Steve McQueen tried to cover every aspect possible of slavery, rather than just focus on the long suffering male.
10000 Saints – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
After a sudden death and pregnancy, many lives changed forever and this film is about the guilt which inspires many people’s decisions over the course of 9 months.
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Pecuilar Children: Chapter 9 thru Ending – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Overview We come to the end of the book yet it is only but the beginning. As the peculiars end an extended part of their life, they find themselves faced with adventure, mystery, and their sheltered lives no more. All thanks to Jacob.
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Pecuilar Children: Chapter 3 thru Chapter 8 – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Overview: Enter the peculiar children, their elusive caretaker, and learn about the world they are trapped in. Alongside that, learn about a romance still held in a young girl’s heart, a 46-year-old man still finding himself, and the truth about grandpa Abe.
Insecure: Season 1/ Episode 1 "Insecure as Fuck" [Series Premiere] – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Overview Whether you were an Awkward Black Girl fan or the marketing for this show got your interest peaked, welcome the next series which shows TV is way ahead of the game when it comes to diverse depictions of Black folk.
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Pecuilar Children: Prologue thru Chapter 2
Like many, I’m sure, with the trailer of Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children coming out, linked below the fold, coming out, I found myself tickled by what this book could have held. For while I’ve seen it around for years, being that it had the oddest girl on the cover I thought it was something a bit too… peculiar. Now, though, being I’m more peculiar with each passing day, I decided to look into it and while it takes a few chapters to get to meet Ms. Peregrine, once you do, so begins the magic.
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children (Film) – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Overview Whether you’ve read the book or became interested due to the trailer or the name Tim Burton, beware! For while you may be entertained enough to not notice the two-hour time length, you will be left feeling the time could have been better spent.
Collected Quotes for the Month: September 2016
Best Of Empathy or gullibility, take your pick. — “eps2.9_pyth0n-pt1.p7z.” Mr. Robot I’ve always found doors fascinating inventions. They hold the entry to unlimited imagination. Before you open any door, a world filled with possibilities sits right behind it. And it isn’t until you open it they are realized. Such potential they bring to…
Queen Sugar: Season 1/ Episode 5 "By Any Means" – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Overview So it seems, the past familiarity of storylines was just to draw you in, get you comfortable and settled, and while there isn’t some huge surprise or shock in “By Any Chance”, there are veers to paths perhaps not surely expected.
Queen Sugar: Season 1/ Episode 4 "The Darker Sooner" – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Overview Ralph Angel takes a back seat as the focus is on Charley’s business acumen and Nova’s journalism.
Atlanta: Season 1/ Episode 5 "Nobody Beats the Biebs" – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Overview Atlanta has its own unique quality of weird. Be it what Darius brings with his stoner persona, Earn who is the one with so much potential who hit rock bottom and is trying to climb his way back up, or even Al who is the man who, most of the time, is all bark…
Re:Zero (Starting Life in Another World): Season 1/ Episode 25 “That’s All This Story Is About” [Season Finale] – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Overview And so it ends. It ends without some questions being answered and some plots being resolved. But we knew this wouldn’t be like Naruto or Bleach and go on way past its expiration date. Yet, there is material left to cover so maybe there just maybe a bit of a time gap between seasons…
Re:Zero (Starting Life in Another World): Season 1/ Episode 24 “The Self-Proclaimed Knight and the Greatest Knight” – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Overview With there only being an episode left, prepare to watch Subaru quickly fix his mistakes from the last round and be sort of left indifferent because you know this story isn’t going to wrap up all he has gone through.
Re:Zero (Starting Life in Another World): Season 1/ Episode 23 “Nefarious Sloth” – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Recap Things were going too well. Betelgeuse was defeated, Julius and Subaru were getting along, but it wasn’t clear what would ruin this feel good train. Well, we get our answer.
Re:Zero (Starting Life in Another World): Season 1/ Episode 22 “A Flash of Sloth” – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Recap With the White Whale dead, the next focus is the Witch’s Cult. But while finishing them off maybe the main goal, it seems Subaru may have to make time to fully reconcile with Julius.
Re:Zero (Starting Life in Another World): Season 1/ Episode 21 “A Wager That Defies Despair” – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Recap The battle comes to an end, but not everyone is going onto Subaru’s true mission.
Re:Zero (Starting Life in Another World): Season 1/ Episode 20 “Wilhelm van Astrea” – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Recap The battle against the White Whale is a bloody one filled with the occasional flashbacks, but let it be known: The battle doesn’t end here.
Re:Zero (Starting Life in Another World): Season 1/ Episode 19 “Battle Against the White Whale” – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Recap Using everything he knows, and with a little luck, Subaru may finally have an answer as to how to save Emilia. With her rivals help.
Re:Zero (Starting Life in Another World): Season 1/ Episode 18 “From Zero” – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Recap It is often said that in order for a person to move forward, they must look back. I think Peace From Broken Pieces says it best: “[…] lives fall apart when they need to be rebuilt. Lives fall apart when the foundation upon which they were built needs to be relaid. Lives fall apart,…
Re:Zero (Starting Life in Another World): Season 1/ Episode 17 “Disgrace in the Extreme” – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Recap Imagine some of the worse things which could happen to Subaru, outside of him dying. Two of those things happen in this episode, and then something quite surprising happens.
Re:Zero (Starting Life in Another World): Season 1/ Episode 16 “The Greed of a Pig” – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Overview The key thing Subaru has to learn in this episode is the art of negotiation. Something he can’t do well with the aristocrats, but does awesome with when it comes to the common merchant.
Alderamin on the Sky: Season 1/ Episode 1 “A Stormy Encounter” [Series Premiere] – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Overview At 18 years old, were you ready to command an army? At 12 were you preparing to rule a nation at war? Well, that is what these young people are preparing for in this series. Though in the first episode they find themselves forced to end their theory training and actually participate. Rating: Stick…
Re:Zero (Starting Life in Another World): Season 1/ Episode 15 “The Outside of Madness” – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Overview Ladies and gentlemen, allow me to introduce the newest villain, the leader of the Sloth sect of the Witch Cultist, Betelgeuse.
91 Days: Season 1/ Episode 1 “Day 1: Night of the Murder” [Series Premiere] – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Overview 91 Days is perhaps the most compelling anime I’ve seen in a while. Be it because it isn’t focused on a bunch of kids or teens or isn’t in some foregone era or way in the future, If anything, it might just be because it seems like your general HBO show in animated form….
Re:Zero (Starting Life in Another World): Season 1/ Episode 14 “The Sickness Called Despair” – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Overview After quite a confrontation, Subaru is now just focused on getting stronger. That is until Rem picks up some sort of clairvoyant message from Ram.
Re:Zero (Starting Life in Another World): Season 1/ Episode 13 “Self-Proclaimed Knight Natsuki Subaru” – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Overview It has all been coming to this. Emilia being put up for selection, Subaru watching on, and then the prejudice of Lugnica rearing its ugly head. Thus leading to Subaru reacting and, well…
Game of Thrones: Season 6/ Episode 10 “The Winds of Winter” [Season Finale] – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
Overview There is just so much that happens here. Most of which is jaw drop worthy in both beautiful and horrible ways. Trigger Warning(s): Blood (Branding)
Re:Zero (Starting Life in Another World): Season 1/ Episode 12 “Return to the Capital” – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Overview Emilia is called to the capital castle and with this change of scenery comes a new arc. One which surprisingly doesn’t end with Subaru facing death.
Game of Thrones: Season 6/ Episode 8 “No One” – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
Overview With such a long history between many characters, and backstabbing happening as is seen fit, it is sometimes hard to know who is on whose side. Something which gets the slightest bit more complicated as some go, return, and sometimes even say goodbye. Trigger Warning(s): Murder (Hanging), Blood Major Characters Mentioned Arya | Daenerys…