Dog Days – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
Dog Days is all you expect it to be. Simple, a bit emotional, comical, and good for when you have nothing better to do.
Drama
The human experience, sometimes at its most raw, is what you’ll find in the drama tag.
Dead Envy – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
Dead Envy feels like a movie inspired by Eminem’s “Stan,” but taking things to the next level.
Crazy Rich Asians – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
Crazy Rich Asians may have one of the dullest romances you have ever watched, but Awkwafina and Nico Santos save this film from being a bore.
Aardvark – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
Aardvark is one of those movies which unfortunately doesn’t hone in on the interesting character or story but just makes them part of the dull lead’s life.
Flavors of Youth – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
Flavors of Youth presents 3 stories which present the minimal needed for you to not close out your Netflix tab.
Like Father – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
Kind of sappy, with a little bit of humor, Like Father presents just enough to get in your feelings and be worth your time.
Blindspotting – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
Blindspotting helps illustrate the trauma many Black people have with cops, the double standard that exists between Black and white men, all while throwing in some Hamilton styled raps.
Hot Summer Nights – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
In this coming of age, crime story, you get a little bit of everything. Forbidden romance, kid way in over their head, and the question of who will survive and will there be a happy ending?
Rosy – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
Rosy is just too simple, with a male lead who seems misplaced, to match the assumed intention of the story.
Happy Sugar Life: Season 1/ Episode 1 “1st Life: The Sugar Girl Eats Love” [Series Premiere] – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
Happy Sugar Life is going to give you pause as we get to know Satou and why she is hell-bent on keeping this child, Shio, in her life.
How It Ends – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
How It Ends not only doesn’t answer its title’s question but also makes for a terrible online release thanks to its writing, pacing, and maybe even acting.
Who We Are Now – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
Who We Are Now presents a spotlight on Julianne Nicholson which she uses to show her undeniable talent and to challenge your perception of Emma Roberts.
Sharp Objects: Season 1/ Episode 1 “Vanish” [Series Premiere] – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
Sharp Objects, like many an HBO mini-series before, reminds you why the network is the anti-Netflix by focusing on quality over quantity.
Us and Them (Hou Lai De Wo Men) – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
By the end of Us and Them, you’ll be exhausted by watching such a long movie and will need a tissue for your tears and snot.
Bad Peter – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
In this sci-fi short, an AI named Peter is supposed to help this woman named Rachel have a successful pregnancy – by any means necessary.
Love Is: Season 1/ Episode 1 “Nuri and Yasir” [Series Premiere] – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
Love Is won’t just renew your faith in the possibility of finding blissful love, but also your faith in what television can offer.
Superfly – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
I want you to imagine a 90s rap video with a big budget and an intro which goes on forever. That part of the video sums up Superfly.
Impulse: Season 1/ Episode 1 “Pilot” [Series Premiere] – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
Impulse is a weird mix of indie movie vibes, FreeForm teen angst, and CW’s love for superheroes.
A Kid Like Jake – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
A Kid Like Jake focuses less on the subject matter and more on the parents trying to navigate how to raise a kid like Jake.
Hearts Beat Loud – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
Hearts Beat Loud is the type of indie you wish was on Netflix for the sake of being accessible yet also presents the argument of why some films must be seen in theaters.
All Summers End – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
All Summers End is the quintessential summer movie featuring a young love that fills your stomach with butterflies but is bittersweet.
The Tale – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
Disturbing yet weirdly artsy, The Tale questions and prods the past as Jennifer Fox comes to term with a less rosey version of her history.
Deadpool 2 – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
Deadpool 2 reminds you of what the comic book world was like before creating cinematic universes killed the fun and excitement.
Book Club – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
Book Club, thanks to the veteran actresses who take lead, is touching, comical, and something you have to question: why is it so rare?
The Cured – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
The Cured brings to question what would happen if zombies actually became cured and there was a movement to reintegrate them into society – as a subclass of humans.
Anon – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
Between a plot which seems like a small budget Minority Report to the dryness of Clive Owen and Amanda Seyfried, this may be the perfect film for a Sunday afternoon nap.
Tully – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
Tully is an ode to mothers who found a way to survive child rearing one way or another, even if it was by allowing themselves to go a little crazy.
Mary Shelley – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
Like most period dramas, the score is sweeping and acting is pretty dry, but Fanning’s charm and Sturridge and Booth’s theatrics will keep you from falling asleep.
All These Small Moments – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
All These Small Moments gives you a taste of so many great stories and leaves you hungering for more from each one.
The Week Of – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
As Adam Sandler seemingly tries to combine his style of comedy with his more appreciated dramatic works, we get the very rough The Week Of.
In a Relationship – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
In a Relationship tones down the dramatics of young love and while the lack of dramatics does make the film eventually feel dull, it also makes it one the most honest depiction you’ve seen in a while.
The Miseducation of Cameron Post – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
The Miseducation of Cameron Post excels as a comedy but, at best, is average in terms of its coming of age drama element.
Jellyfish – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
Jellyfish really does push the idea that being a first-time anything should heighten expectations than lower them.
Little Woods – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
Little Woods may sell you on the idea of a bi-racial sisterhood, but it’s more so about critiquing the American health system vs. what Canada offers and the illegal market the discrepancy creates.
O.G. – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
O.G. is a mixture of Oscar bait editing with the realness that comes from having its actor surrounding by real people doing time.
Dude – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
Dude should have been a series – point blank. For between the writing and casting, this just being an hour and a half will make you feel cheated.
The Misandrists – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
Depending on whether you stick to what is presented on the surface, or go deeper, that will ultimately decide whether you allow yourself to enjoy The Misandrist.
And Then I Go – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
Considering the times we are in, if I was still in middle school or high school, I’d skip every assembly after watching this movie.
A Quiet Place – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
A Quiet Place is not your mainstream horror movie and with that comes plus and minuses depending on how you like your horror.
