Comedy

Sweethearts (2024): Review and Summary

While much of what is to be expected is given with “Sweethearts,” at least the gay character, who feels obligatory/formulaic for films like this, is given a much better storyline than expected.

Style Me For Christmas (2024): Review and Summary

While it is always wonderful to see Raven Goodwin in a starring role, “Style Me For Christmas,” focusing on a talented woman’s desirability to an R&B superstar does lead to a tightrope walk between problematic and aspirational.

Albany Road (2024): Review and Summary

A cast of familiar faces, ranging from Lynn Whitfield to J. Alphonse Nicholson, delivers a holiday movie that is dramatic but a bit more serious than your usual fare.

Anora (2024): Review and Summary

“Anora” is probably going to be one of the funniest sex comedies you’ve seen that are heavy on the sex and got released beyond a limited release in theaters.

We Live In Time (2024): Review and Summary

Andrew Garfield and Florence Pugh star in a romance movie made for those in their 30s, who have had significant relationships and aren’t scrambling with money or their career.

The Wild Robot: Review (with Spoilers)

Featuring the voices of Lupita Nyong’o, Kit Connor, and Pedro Pascal, “The Wild Robot” delivers dark humor and tear-inducing moments, making this one of the best American-made animated movies of the year.

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice: Movie Review

“Beetlejuice Beetlejuice” may avoid feeling like a cash grab, but there is no denying it doesn’t present anything notable to justify being made.

Running On Empty: Review

Lucy Hale and Keir Gilchrist may deliver familiar characters from their repertoire, but amongst the odd story and comedy of “Running On Empty,” they make it work.

The Duel (2024) – Written Review

Starring Dylan Sprouse and Patrick Warburton, “The Duel” provides just as many laughs as it creates opportunities to discuss the modern state of masculinity.

Dragonkeeper (2024) – Review

“Dragonkeeper” focuses on a young girl who is tasked with rescuing a baby dragon, and discovering her true fate, not the assumed one of being a servant.

Douglas Is Cancelled: Season 1 Review

Karen Gillan shines as she plays opposite Hugh Bonneville in a mini-series about a veteran journalist who might get cancelled due to an off-color joke.

Sing Sing (2024)

Colman Domingo uses his talents to give us a prison story about how the RTA (Rehabilitation Through The Arts) changed the lives of some incarcerated people.

Swimming Home (2024)

Starring MacKenzie Davis and Christopher Abbott, between them we watch a increasingly estranged couple, potentially towards the end of their relationship, try to enjoy a vacation featuring a young woman enamored by Abbott’s character.

All That We Love (2024)

Starring Margaret Cho and Kenneth Choi, in “All That We Love,“ we watch as an estranged ex husband and father with the best/worst timing, tries to reconcile with his ex wife and daughter.

Sacramento (2024)

As two long time friends, deal with how they have become estranged, one is dealing with the weight of pending fatherhood, which is leading them to become an anxious mess.

The Other, Gold (2024)

In a multi week spanning movie, Farrah tries to navigate her feelings and frustrations as another wave of COVID hits, as well as the realization some of her relationships might be over.

Guy Friends (2024) Movie Review

In “Guy Friends,” a young woman discovers, despite thinking she is a guy’s girl, she’s really just someone multiple guys are waiting for their chance with – and they all make a move when her relationship goes awry.

The Young Wife (2024) Movie Review

At times feeling like a visual album, “The Young Wife” delivers both the anxiety and sense of overstimulation that can come when two worlds collide via marriage – especially when there are unresolved issues.

My Old Ass (2024) Movie Review

Megan Park delivers another coming-of-age story, but this one focuses on a young woman meeting herself in the future and questioning the sexuality she thought she was firm in.

The Ms. Pat Show: Season 4 Review

“The Ms. Pat Show” continues to blur the lines between being a sitcom and drama as it gives its live and at-home audience what feels like a top-notch play.

Hit Man (2024) Movie Review

Starring Glen Powell, known for the recent hit “Anyone But You”, in this Netflix release, he plays an everyday guy thrust to pretend to be a hitman for the New Orleans Police Department in a movie based on a real person.