Booksmart (2019) – Summary, Review (with Spoilers)
Booksmart may make you feel representing characters like Amy and Molly isn’t enough anymore and that it doesn’t do justice to its supporting cast.
Comedy
A Dog’s Journey (2019) – Summary, Review (with Spoilers)
A Dog’s Journey builds upon what was great about A Dog’s Purpose but now has it where the humans and dogs both have an emotionally impactful story.
Star: Season 3 – Summary, Review (with Spoilers)
Season 3 of Star is honestly a mixed bag, but when it addresses generational trauma and growth, it reminds you why you fell in love with the series.
Lucifer: Season 4 – Summary, Review (with Spoilers)
Lucifer’s 4th season is more of the same and while it may satisfy avid fans, for those who dropped the series or are curious, it won’t hype you up for a 5th season.
Wine Country (2019) – Summary, Review (with Spoilers)
Amy Poehler takes a page out of Adam Sandler’s book and has a vacation with her SNL friends, paid for by someone else and made just for her audience.
Pokémon Detective Pikachu (2019) – Summary, Review (with Spoilers)
While there is a bit more innuendo than you may expect, Pokémon Detective Pikachu may just be the rare exception to video game/ card game crossovers.
The Hustle (2019) – Summary, Review (with Spoilers)
While comical at times, Rebel Wilson’s style and Anne Hathaway’s, when it comes to comedy, more so clashes than compliments one another.
Fleabag: Season 2 – Summary, Review (with Spoilers)
Season 2 of Fleabag presents us a character who hit rock bottom and it trying to find her way back to the light despite her past.
Shorts: WTF (Tribeca Film Festival 2019) – Summary, Review (with Spoilers)
The WTF Shorts at Tribeca 2019 all live up to the collection’s title, but not all for the same reason.
Buffaloed (2019) – Summary, Review (with Spoilers)
Zoey Deutch kills it as Peg and leads you to question why doesn’t Buffaloed have a distribution deal yet? Particularly with Netflix.
Long Shot (2019) – Summary, Review (with Spoilers)
In a strange twist, Rogen ups his game to what you’d expect from Theron, and while he maintains his comedic style, he also veers towards being a more serious actor.
Good Posture – Summary, Review (with Spoilers)
Is a movie about a reclusive writer, with limited social skills, and a young woman, with limited life skills worth seeing? Read our review to know.
BONDiNG: Season 1, Episode 1 “Old Friends, New Names” [Series Premiere] – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
Bonding starts off very weird, and potentially niche, but it has the potential to break out of that.
Someone Great (2019) – Summary, Review (with Spoilers)
One of two things comes from Someone Great: Wanting to call your best friends and say you love them, or wishing you have best friends you could call.
Thriller (2018) – Summary, Review (with Spoilers)
Thriller works better as a comedy than anything remotely close to a horror, and as long as you come in knowing that you should be fine.
Little (2019) – Summary, Review (with Spoilers)
While reimagining classic films usually deserve a side-eye, Little brings something completely new and leaves you feeling like it is long overdue.
On My Block: Season 2 – Recap, Review (with Spoilers)
Season 2 of On My Block loses a bit of the luster the first season had but remains a loveable staple of the Netflix library.
LOVE DEATH + ROBOTS: Three Robots – Summary, Review (with Spoilers)
Three Robots is a quirky short which ends just before it could perhaps go left and overstay its welcome.
Shrill: Season 1, Episode 1 “Annie” [Series Premiere] – Recap, Review (With Spoilers)
While diversity has come in the form of different skin tones, ethnicities and sexualities coming to the forefront, Shrill breaks ground.
Juanita (2019) – Summary, Review (with Spoilers)
Juanita is the type of role and movie you’ll wish Alfre Woodard and her peers got to experience far more often.
Captain Marvel (2019) – Summary, Review (with Spoilers)
Captain Marvel nods towards being the first female-led Marvel movie, but other than that, it’s what fans of the MCU are long used to for better and worse.
A Madea Family Funeral (2019) – Summary, Review (with Spoilers)
Madea’s final bow may be a slight disappointment, but the laughs will remind you of why you fell in love with the character.
The Umbrella Academy: Season 1 – Recap, Review (with Spoilers)
The Umbrella Academy’s first season is a bit hit and miss, but by the final, it seems to have found its footing.
Kim Possible (2019) – Summary, Review (with Spoilers)
This modernized version of Kim Possible could grow on you, but many of the jokes, and changes, including Kim being made insecure, may turn off older fans.
Isn’t It Romantic (2019) – Summary, Review (with Spoilers)
Isn’t It Romantic is not only comical but finds an appropriate way to address what it is like to be a woman who is plus sized without making her the joke.
Happy Death Day 2U (2019) – Summary, Review (with Spoilers)
Happy Death Day 2U may feel like an unnecessary sequel, but it is nevertheless a fun time.
Kevin Hart’s Guide To Black History – Summary, Review (with Spoilers)
Kevin Hart’s Guide To Black History feels like a potentially classic edu-tainment program like what used to come out steadily in the 90s and early 00s.
Miracle Workers: Season 1, Episode 1 “2 Weeks” [Series Premiere] – Recap, Review (with Spoilers)
Miracle Workers seems like the grand example of why more shows should become limited series – and we mean that in a good way.
The Unicorn (2019) – Summary, Review (with Spoilers)
The Unicorn, in many ways, is like your first time. Awkward, slightly comical, but unlike many people’s first times, it lasts a bit too long.
What Men Want (2019) – Summary, Review (With Spoilers)
What Men Want may be a reimagining of What Women Want, but Taraji P. Henson not only makes the movie premise her own but brings a truly hilarious experience.
Then Came You (2019) – Summary/ Review (with Spoilers)
Likely, by the end of Then Came You, you’ll be crying from both eyes, have snot on your upper lip, and will have a trembling lip.
Russian Doll: Season 1, Episode 1 “Nothing In This World Is Easy” [Series Premiere] – Recap/Review (with Spoilers)
Russian Doll is for those who like NY/LA indie comedies and wished those kinds of characters got to be in their own TV show.
Fighting With My Family (2019) – Summary/ Review (with Spoilers)
Fighting With My Family is touching, hilarious, and has the kind of journey we’ve only gotten to enjoy in boxing films for the last few years.
Polar (2019) – Summary/ Review (with Spoilers)
When Polar tries to be funny, it veers towards being a horrible movie. However, when it is harnessing the seriousness of Mikkelsen’s persona, it flourishes
Lady-Like – Summary/ Review (with Spoilers)
Lady-Like has the vibe of a web series and it being a movie is ultimately upsetting for you are left wanting more.
Wayne: Season 1 – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
While compared to The End of The F***ing World, Wayne proves itself to be more than a distant, working class, American cousin.
Wayne: Season 1/ Episode 1 “Chapter One: Get Some Then” [Series Premiere] – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
Wayne may very well be the first show that makes you want to have YouTube Premium.
The Last Laugh – Summary/ Review (with Spoilers)
The Last Laugh is an acute reminder that getting older doesn’t mean you lose your will to live but more so take the idea of living more seriously.
Kaguya-Sama: Love Is War: Season 1/ Episode 1 [Series Premiere] – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
High energy, ridiculous, yet also playing out the anxiety and power dynamics of love, Kaguya-Sama: Love Is War is one of the best romance shows you will see.
