Really Love (2020) – Review/Summary (with Spoilers)
Really Love may have one story element we’re all far too used to but beyond that? It’s a swoon-worthy romance film.
Drama
The human experience, sometimes at its most raw, is what you’ll find in the drama tag.
The Ms. Pat Show: Season 1 – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
The Ms. Pat Show, while raunchy, is also one of the funniest new shows to come out in years; while having a heart most shows struggle to make feel authentic.
The White Lotus: Season 1 – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
The White Lotus may not hook you from the beginning, but with its murder mystery and after some characters escape your preconceived notions, it gets better.
Pollux (2018) – Review/Summary (with Spoilers)
In a town plagued by the closure of a major factory employer, a handful of boys are trying to make money to maintain some sense of normalcy.
The Last Day of School (2019) – Review/Summary (with Spoilers)
What does one do when in need of money, and an old friend offers an illegal but easy way to get it? Which would help your family and relationship immensely?
Gotta (2015) – Review/Summary (with Spoilers)
No matter how old you get, change is difficult. However, when it is sprung up on you, is it wrong for you to get mad?
Fantasy Island: Season 1 Episode 1 [Premiere] – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
After numerous reboots and even a relatively recent movie, Fantasy Island is back but scraps the more horrific elements of the recent film.
Don’t Breathe 2 (2021) – Review/Summary (with Spoilers)
Don’t Breathe 2 improves on the original while revisiting certain scenarios The Blind Man put people through in the first film.
Coda (2021) – Review/Summary (with Spoilers)
Coda might be one of the few must-see movies on the Apple TV+ platform and perhaps one of the best films focused on a family unit we’ve seen in a long time.
Reservation Dogs: Season 1 Episode 1 [Premiere] – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
The unique spin of Reservation Dogs focusing on the indigenous gives it a unique hook – but that’s not the only reason you’ll wanna stick around.
Respect (2021) – Review/Summary (with Spoilers)
Respect puts respect on Aretha Franklin’s name while still addressing her demons, sordid relationships, and her father.
Mr. Corman: Season 1 Episode 1 [Series Premiere] – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
If you’re a millennial who isn’t happy with where you are in life now, Mr. Corman may feel like staring into a mirror being forced to watch the life you seek distractions from.
Masquerade (2021) – Review/Summary (with Spoilers)
Masquerade is the type of film which heavily relies on its ending to make up for nearly the entire movie.
The Boy Behind The Door (2021) – Review/Summary (with Spoilers)
While immensely frustrating sometimes, it is because The Boy Behind The Door gets you so invested that you hope for the best but expect the worst.
Pink Opaque (2020) – Review/Summary (with Spoilers)
In Pink Opaque, we watch as its lead confronts an unstable present, a covered up past, and an uncertain future, as they deal with homelessness.
The Nevers: Season 1 (Part 1) – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
The first half of The Nevers makes you wonder if the second half of the season is needed to appreciate it or if it’ll just end up more of the same.
Bigger: Season 2 – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
While in the midst of a pandemic, nothing slows down the characters of Bigger from better things, bigger drama, and people from their past shaking their world.
Genera+ion: Season 1 – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
Genera+ion, while flawed, more than makes up for its low points by featuring queer people of color who bring a wealth of diverse stories.
Escape Room Franchise Cast and Character Guide (with Ending Spoilers)
A guide for the Escape Room Franchise. Noted are cast members, information about their character(s), and additional details about the film’s story and characters.
Escape Room: Tournament of Champions (2021) – Review/Summary (with Spoilers)
Escape Room: Tournament of Champions may make you think the rooms would be more elaborate and attendees savvier, but that is not the case.
Fear Street (Part 3) – 1666 – Review/Summary (with Spoilers)
Fear Street: Part 3 (1666) is the perfect ending to the horror trilogy and will make you hope more trilogies resolve as quickly as this one did.
The White Lotus: Season 1 Episode 1 [Premiere] – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
A handful of eccentric people end up on Hawaiian resort where, in one week, someone dies.
Fear Street: 1978 – Review/Summary (with Spoilers)
While the sequel to Fear Street: 1994 loses some of the luster of the first entry, at the very least, it ends strong.
Queen Sugar: Season 5 – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
Season 5 of Queen Sugar, despite addressing the COVID-19 pandemic and 2020’s Black Lives Matter movement, is a reprieve from what the show has perennially given viewers.
Remake Our Life: Season 1 Episode 1 [Premiere] – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
Remake Our Life! pushes feelings of nostalgia as it allows its protagonist not to think, “What If?” but to choose the other path when they were at a crossroad.
Externo (2021) – Review/Summary (with Spoilers)
Externo, while at times tapping on that line of being too art-house, presents a compelling journey as one man vies to take over the world.
Batman: The Long Halloween – Part 1 (2021) – Review/Summary (with Spoilers)
For what is one of Batman’s legendary stories, Batman: The Long Halloween seemed rather run of the mill.
Zola (2021) – Review/Summary (with Spoilers)
Zola’s thrill seems a bit lost in translation from a viral Twitter feed to a motion picture.
She Dreams At Sunrise (2021) – Review/Summary (with Spoilers)
I hope you’ve been drinking enough water for She Dreams At Sunrise will not only make you cry but ugly cry.
Settlers (2021) – Review/Summary (with Spoilers)
In this sometimes slow-moving sci-fi drama, you’re reminded of what the cost for survival can be in a post-apocalyptic world – and it often is more than you’re willing to give.
Magnolia Bloom (2021) – Review/Summary (with Spoilers)
In what appears to be one of the final moments of a long movie, we watch as a young woman integrates a room to share a highlight of her life with her people.
Asking For It (2021) – Review/Summary (with Spoilers)
Asking For It has a B-Movie vibe as it has a group of radical feminists take on incels and the patriarchy.
Blindspotting: Season 1 Episode 1 [Premiere] – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
Picking up from the story the movie set up, we switch focus to Ashley as she moves in with Miles’ bohemian mother and sex worker sister – and Ashley ain’t happy.
7 Days (2021) – Review/Summary (with Spoilers)
On top of 7 Days being an opposites attract story, it also taps into stereotypes then expands them to remind you they are ignorant viewpoints of a much more complicated culture.
Poser (2021) – Review/Summary (with Spoilers)
Poser operates much like an action movie. The only difference is, rather than sitting through the story to get to the action sequences, in Poser you are awaiting the next musical performance.
Beau (2021) – Review/Summary (with Spoilers)
On the brink of a major success, two women disagree on the best path forward for one’s career and their shared relationship.
The Orange Child – Review/Summary (with Spoilers)
The evolution of self-image is explored as a Black child growing up in France finds a way to be empowered by his Blackness.
Queen Bees (2021) – Review/Summary (with Spoilers)
Queen Bees is a reminder that no matter how old you get, you can still find love, new friends, and can’t escape cliques.
Awake (2021) – Review/Summary (with Spoilers)
Awake could put you to sleep if it wasn’t for the much-needed screams and sounds of bullets being fired.