Atlanta: Season 1/ Episode 6 "Value" – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Overview In a largely Vanessa focused episode, we see the struggles she is going through compared to her friends, and partly thanks to Earn.
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.
Complete Unknown – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Overview A woman from a man’s past, long since a memory but not forgotten, returns after 15 years and so begins the questioning of why she left and where she went? Trigger Warning(s): Animal Carcass
Adult World – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Overview Adult World I won’t necessarily call a coming of age film, but more so a wake-up call. Review (with Spoilers) Adult World is one of the many films I wanted to see at the 2013 Tribeca Film Festival that I was unable to. But, in Adult World’s case, it wasn’t a timing issue, but…
Addicted – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Overview When a woman finds her husband unable to please her like she wants, she ventures out to find some men who can. Trigger Warning: Rape scene Review (with Spoilers) Before 50 Shades of Grey was synonymous with mainstream erotica, there was the author Zane. Someone who wrote erotic books featuring Black characters and even…
About Time – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Overview Despite being advertised as a romantic movie, the real focus is on the relationship between brother and sister, as well as son and dad. Review (with Spoilers) For me, the main draw was seeing “From the creator of Love Actually” on the poster, as well as seeing Bill Nighy and Rachel McAdams’ name attached….
About Last Night – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Overview A movie where two couples are trying to figure out when friends with benefits, become a full-fledged relationship. Review (with Spoilers) In Kevin Hart’s 2nd feature of the year, he reunited with Michael Ealy and Regina Hall to bring us a remake of a film that I honestly never saw. But, with Kevin Hart…
About Elly – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Overview With one woman’s lie, one’s disappearance, and tensions high, you are presented a Muslim version of what seems like a familiar story. Director: Asghar Farhadi Writer: Asghar Farhadi (screenplay), Azad Jafarian, and Asghar Farhadi (story) Review (with Spoilers) – Below
About Alex – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Overview A group of college friends congregates after one of their own attempt suicide. Trigger Warning(s): Suicide
Aaliyah: The Princess of R&B – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Overview Aaliyah’s rise to stardom is chronicled but without the essential things needed for a decent biopic. Review (with Spoilers) With all the negative press about the movie, I was certainly not expecting a film like CrazySexyCool. However, I was hoping it would perhaps at least be like Jimi: All Is By My Side and…
A Thousand Times Good Night – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Overview When your career deals with being an observer, it makes the moments in which you are expected to be a participant difficult. Review (with Spoilers) Thanks to watching The Graham Norton Show, in which star Juliette Binoche was amongst the guest, I found out about this movie. It should be noted, though, another big…
Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events (The Bad Beginning): Chapters 10 to Ending – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Overview The end of the book comes and I’m so glad I’m reading this once the series has been published for waiting to see what would happen next would be so aggravating.
Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events (The Bad Beginning): Chapters 6 to 9 – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Overview Count Olaf shows an act of kindness, and asks of the children to join a play of his. A gesture which, at one time or another, seems to be an olive branch in order for their next few years together to go smoothly. However, once the rose colored glasses are removed, both Violet and…
A Birder’s Guide to Everything – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Overview A year and a half after a boy’s mother dies, his father remarries and with his dad partly moving on, the son decides to go off and connect with his mom through the career she loved.
Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events (The Bad Beginning): Chapters 1 to 5 – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Overview Like some, my first introduction to A Series of Unfortunate Events came over a decade ago when Jim Carrey, alongside Emily Browning, introduced the series through the movie version. However, nothing came thereafter until the announcement of a Netflix adaptation. So, like Recovery Road, I find myself intrigued enough to check out the book…
A Perfect Day – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Overview It’s 1995 and somewhere in the Balkans a group of aid workers are looking for a rope to get a body out of a well. Pretty much, outside of some bickering between two people who used to mess around with each other, that’s the movie.
A Million Ways To Die In The West – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Overview One man seeks happiness and validation in the wrong woman, who dumps him. Luckily for him, though, a new woman enters his life and seems ready to compensate any feelings he is ready to give. Review (with Spoilers) Though controversial, it is hard to say Seth MacFarlane, with his R-rated Looney Tunes style of…
A Long Way Down – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Overview A suicide pact between strangers creates lifesaving friendships. Trigger Warning(s): Conversations about Suicide
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…
