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.
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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.
Here After (2021) – Review/Summary (with Spoilers)
While Here After fka Faraway Eyes takes a bit to warm up to, it’s all smooth sailing once the focus becomes the lead couple.
Words Bubble Up Like Soda Pop (2021) – Review/Summary (with Spoilers)
Words Bubble Up Like Soda Pop may not have the best pacing, but when at its best, it’ll make you swoon and potentially have you teary-eyed.
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.
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.
FEAR STREET PART 1: 1994 – Review/Summary (with Spoilers)
Usually, it takes years for a trilogy to be built, but with Fear Street, Netflix is giving you the full story in three weeks, and 1994 sets a positive tone.
Do You Also Feel A Tingle? – Review/Summary (with Spoilers)
Your first anything is always a magical moment, but only if with the right person.
Girl With A Thermal Gun (2021) – Review/Summary (with Spoilers)
Is it real life, or was it all a fantasy? That is the question you’re left with after watching Girl With A Thermal Gun
Cupids (2021) – Review/Summary (with Spoilers)
3 children, worried about bus driver over the summer, contemplate who they know to pair them up within an adorable 10 minute short.
Beautiful They (2021) – Review/Summary (with Spoilers)
Beautiful They gives you the soft LGBT+ love story so many ask for but so rarely see.
Blush (2021) – Review/Summary (with Spoilers)
In 11 minutes, you get one of the cutest animated sci-fi love stories since Wall-E.
Dating and New York (2021) – Review/Summary (with Spoilers)
Is this a romantic comedy? Yes. However, that doesn’t mean Dating and New York may not make you cry – which it did for us.
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.
Mark, Mary and Some Other People (2021) – Review/Summary (with Spoilers)
As open relationships and marriages push for more societal acceptance, the question becomes, if purely in a sexual context, can it work?
The Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard (2021) – Review/Summary (with Spoilers)
The Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard is just what you need if you’ve felt laughter, guns, and things blowing up, have been in short supply.
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.
Flashback (2021) – Review/Summary (with Spoilers)
How far would you go to remember someone from 15 years ago who disappeared? Especially if under the circumstances most would happily choose to forget?
Carnaval (2021) – Review/Summary (with Spoilers)
Despite seeming like a generic party film/ girls trip, there is more to Carnaval than meets the eye.
Port Authortiy (2021) – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
In the heart of New York, a Pittsburgh transplant hopes to start a new life living with his half-sister, but when that doesn’t come to pass, he develops a chosen family.
Genera+ion: Season 1 (Part 1) – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
Genera+ion might represent the next generation of youth dramas which contain a whole new slew of problems, but they all boil down to the same you’re used to.
Horimiya: Season 1 – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
While Horimiya starts off cute, with a potentially beautiful and complicated story, it eventually boils down to something silly and at times bloated.
Love, Death + Robots: Snow In The Desert – Review/Summary (with Spoilers)
So, what video game were these cut scenes from, when is it out, and for what platforms?
Voyagers (2021) – Review/Summary (with Spoilers)
At times, Voyagers is the teen romantic drama you didn’t know you needed. Yet, with not always being scientifically sound and not using some characters to their fullest – it does falter.
Caught By A Wave (2021) – Review/Summary (with Spoilers)
Caught By A Wave is a simple romance with enough drama to keep it from getting dull, but never enough to make you take situations mentioned too serious.
Genius: Aretha: Episode 1 “Respect” [Series Premiere] – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
While we wait for Jennifer Hudson’s authorized biography, “Respect,” Cynthia Erivo takes on the Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin’s, story.
Tribes of Europa: Season 1 – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
Tribes of Europa does well in getting you interested in a post-apocalypse Europe, but more so in how the world and cultures shifted than its characters.
Cherry (2021) – Review/Summary (with Spoilers)
While Cherry is too damn long, Tom Holland, and especially Ciara Bravo, present the most beautiful, f***ed up love story you might watch for a while.
Trust (2021) – Review/Summary (with Spoilers)
In this “Did they or didn’t they” movie, Trust pushes you to wonder who is a liar and whether the circumstances absolve one from the result?
Long Weekend (2021) – Review/Summary (with Spoilers)
Despite being a theatrical release, something about Long Weekend feels very much like a VoD release that somehow snuck into theaters.
Genera+ion: Season 1 Episode 1 “Pilot” [Series Premiere] – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
Genera+ion seeks to break away from young adult show trends by having their characters be three-dimensional people and not primarily defined by a specific struggle.
Coming 2 America (2021) – Review/Summary (with Spoilers)
Coming 2 America has its moments, but as it hints itself, like many sequels, it was unnecessary.
Boogie (2021) – Review/Summary (with Spoilers)
Boogie tries to be a coming of age tale, romance, drama, and feature its leads heritage to varying degrees of success.
