The Holiday Calendar – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
The Holiday Calendar may not win over people who don’t like holiday/Christmas movies, but if you do? This is a good film to start the season.
Romance
Nobody’s Fool – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
Nobody’s Fool shows Tiffany Haddish at her best and shows what Tyler Perry can do when he doesn’t limit his comedy style to PG-13 and below.
How To Get Over a Breakup – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
How To Get Over a Breakup does drag a bit at times but, depending on if you are going through a breakup, it might be just what you need.
Stella’s Last Weekend – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
Stella’s Last Weekend may lead you to think the movie is about a dying dog, but it is really about two brothers relationship becoming stronger.
After Everything – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
After Everything is exhausting in the best way. For it really makes you passionate about the possibility of this couple making it and not ending up just a memory to one another.
Elite: Season 1/ Episode 1 [Series Premiere] – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
The rich and poor intermingling, the plight of one Palestinian girl, someone HIV+, and boys trying to hide their homosexuality – OH THE DRAMA!
A Star Is Born (2018) – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
A Star Is Born starts strong and burns bright but, by the end, you’ll be burnt out as it sludges its way to the finish.
Little Things: Season 1/ Episode 1 “FOMO” [Series Premiere] – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
Little Things is an adorable web series, based on the premiere, that’ll remind you love doesn’t always have to be complicated and filled with drama.
Cruise – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
Cruise may not cause butterflies or be the best star-crossed romance you’ve ever seen, but it is a decent way to kill an hour and a half.
Life Itself – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
Life Itself will leave you crying in the worse way. I’m talking gasping for air, with a burning throat, for the devastation is too much.
Sorry For Your Loss: Season 1/ Episode 1 “One Fun Thing” [Series Premiere] – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
Thanks to Elizabeth Olsen, the full weight of emotion dealing with losing your spouse, while young, will weigh on you like a sandbag.
Where Hands Touch – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
Sadly, neither the Black experience during WWII Germany nor the odd love affair between a Nazi soldier and Black German girl flourish.
A Boy. A Girl. A Dream. – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
A Boy. A Girl. A Dream is a likable love story but, if not a fan of Trump, it recapping the night he got elected might dampen the romance.
You: Season 1/ Episode 1 “Pilot” [Series Premiere] – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
While the bleeping of curse words may annoy you, everything else will fascinate you to the point of being tempted to get the book to spoil what’s to come.
Destination Wedding – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
A man’s half-brother and ex, two miserable people, find themselves roomed and sitting next to each other and finding a strange, yet overdue, connection.
The Hows of Us – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
The Hows of Us presents one of the cutest, down to Earth romances which addresses what happens when your high school sweetheart struggles to be your adult boyfriend.
Sierra Burgess is a Loser – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
Sierra Burgess Is A Loser comes off so good until it creates an unrealistic relationship and rushes the resolution to the climax.
The Bobby Brown Story (Part 1) – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
As you can imagine, The Bobby Brown Story is from his point of view and with Bobby having lived a full life of triumph and loss, he has no f***s to give. Which shows in this movie.
The Laws of Thermodynamics (Las leyes de la termodinámica) – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
The Laws of Thermodynamics goes so deep into the science of physics, that it makes the romances advertised feel like a bait and switch.
Jet Trash – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
Jet Trash is the kind of film where you feel like, if they just dialed it back a bit, it could have been much more satisfying.
The Innocents: Season 1/ Episode 1 “The Start of Us” [Series Premiere] – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
The Innocents begins with you asking a whole lot of questions, with just enough intrigue to continue onto the next episode.
Last Goodbye – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
The Last Goodbye spends its runtime wisely to make sure its ending packs a punch.
Retrospect – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
Retrospect may mess you up a little as you watch a young man do anything to reconnect with his ex again.
Threesomething – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
Strip away the sexual aside of having a threesome and focus on the awkwardness which comes before, during, and after, and you got Threesomething.
To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before will make you cry, laugh, and reminisce about the first time you found someone you connected with like no one else.
Elizabeth Harvest – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
Elizabeth Harvest likely will play out how you expect it to, but it doesn’t make it any less entertaining to watch.
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.
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.
The Darkest Minds – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
Outside of two moments in which the lead is sexually assaulted, and the protagonist being Black, The Darkest Minds is as generic as they come.
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?
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.
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.
Set It Up – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
You know how in school, or at work, someone said “That person needs to get laid” as if that would fix everything? That’s the premise behind Set It Up.
Alex Strangelove – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
Alex Strangelove is a frustrating movie for while you want to support the message and journey, then you think about the collateral damage.
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.
How to Talk to Girls at Parties – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
Brilliantly weird, comical and touching, somehow How to Talk to Girls at Parties taps into something absurd without getting lost in its own madness.
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?
I Am Not An Easy Man (Je ne suis pas un homme facile) – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
I Am Not An Easy Man takes the less worn route of the idea of the primary genders swapping to quite pleasing results.
