This Beautiful Fantastic – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
While containing a likable lead with a few quirks, this odd tale about gardening, finding love, and a grumpy old man may just put you to sleep.
Movies
Discover our top picks and latest reviews spanning from blockbuster hits to indie films, shorts, and festival premieres across various platforms.
Lowriders – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Lowriders is likable, but in the pursuit of having emotional depth, it drowns in its own melodrama.
Get Me Roger Stone – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
In Get Me Roger Stone, Roger Stone is presented beyond the level of the Koch Brothers or any non-politician political figure you may know. For truly, the way this documentary presents him, he should be in history books.
Snatched – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Snatched isn’t as bad as it may seem to some, but it certainly doesn’t redeem Amy Schumer after The Leather Special.
Vincent N Roxxy – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Vincent n Roxxy is a bit all over the place and has many interesting aspects, or storylines rather, but none of them reach their full potential.
Gifted – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
For those of you who like sappy Lifetime movies, this will be right up your alley.
Only For One Night – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
While the story of Only For One Night is predictable and very cliché, the chemistry between the female and male lead are pleasant surprises.
Guardians of the Galaxy: Vol. 2 – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
It’s easy to forget that despite Marvel being known for its comic blockbusters, they can surprisingly bring you to tears. Just as Guardians of the Galaxy: Vol. 2 will do for you.
I Am Not Your Negro – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
In many ways, I’m ashamed of myself. The name and works of James Baldwin are familiar in terms of title, but the person and characters within are foreign. Yet, no matter how many a Black artists or entertainers name drops him, or we see him pop up in the stories of others, I did not…
Sleight – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Sleight may not deliver the Black superhero movie you might crave, but it is surely an appetizer for what is likely to come in the future.
The Circle – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Usually, when you think of a dystopian future, it is post-war or after humanity destroyed the environment. However, in The Circle, the dystopian future is when all privacy is lost and similar to a handful of Black Mirror episodes, no one is who they truly are.
Tramps – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Tramps as a romance film works but is pretty lackluster when it comes to everything else.
Sand Castle – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Sand Castle doesn’t do anything new or thought-provoking with the war genre. It just reminds you of the trauma both sides go through.
In The Morning – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
In The Morning is the type of film you have to give yourself time to process. For it forces you to think about what is said and makes you need time to deal with the thoughts and feelings it brings up in you. Especially since, when it is done, you can be just left overwhelmed…
Leap (Ballerina) – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Despite your usual Weinstein Company delays, Leap or Ballerina is surprisingly touching and the only quip that can really be made deals with the music and villain.
Sandy Wexler – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
As comedians get older, usually they retreat into the dramatic fields and start exploring what else is out there for them. Yet, for Adam Sandler, thanks to a multi-movie Netflix deal, it seems he feels validated in sticking to his old ways and not making any changes to his formula. Hence, Sandy Wexler.
Little Boxes – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
If Get Out is the horror version of what Black folk fear they may go through in the suburbs, Little Boxes depicts what for some is the reality.
The Fate of the Furious – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
While most franchises run out of gas by the 2nd sequel, The Fate of the Furious finds a way to push out another hit thanks to the reminder that, at the end of the day, it is all about family.
The Outcasts – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
The Outcasts is neither as bad as you think it may be, nor something you’ll be surprised by how much you like it.
Teen Titans: The Judas Contract – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
For those who have followed WB Animation’s darker cartoon versions of the Batman franchise, especially dealing with Damien, this pretty much maintains previously established standards.
