HIM MOVIE REVIEW First, you need to be clear: despite the deceptive marketing, Him is not directed or written by Jordan Peele. It’s coming out under his production label and that’s it. Second: football is America’s #1 religion. At least, it certainly seems that way. Third: Him wants that to be scary. The story follows […]

HONEY DON’T MOVIE REVIEW Ethan Coen and his wife and co-writer Tricia Cooke return with the second in their Lesbian B-Movie Trilogy (after Drive-Away Dolls), Honey Don’t. Again, Margaret Qualley is their lead, this time playing Honey O’Donahue, a gumshoe in the sun-bleached town of Bakersfield California. The useless police detective Marty (Charlie Day) who […]

THE NAKED GUN MOVIE REVIEW There’s a handful at best of good absurdist spoof comedies after the early reign of the Zucker/Abrahams films (Airplane, Airplane 2, Top Secret, The Naked Gun series). There’s a LOT of terrible ones. So, the relaunch of the beloved Naked Gun series without the involvement of the original team, and […]

THE BEAR – SEASON 4 REVIEW The kitchen is open, the countdown is ticking, and the heat has never been higher. After last season’s rocky launch of The Bear, the dream is still alive—but barely. Uncle Jimmy’s slapped a ticking clock on the whole operation, Sydney’s eyeing the exit, and Ritchie’s trying to plate leadership […]

I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER MOVIE REVIEW With the Scream franchise on temporary (but probably not VERY temporary) hiatus, Hollywood in their quest for continuing the trend of 90s nostalgia is forced to turn to some of the not-even-as-close-to-as-good horror franchises of the time. Naturally, you’d first go to the one by the […]

JURASSIC WORLD REBIRTH MOVIE REVIEW Seven of these Jurassic movies now. SEVEN. The hope was that after the terrible (but, of course, financially lucrative) last three entries, this new creative team led by director Gareth Edwards (who knows a thing or two about giant monsters) would rediscover what made that first Jurassic Park movie so […]

28 YEARS LATER MOVIE REVIEW With 28 Days Later‘s explosive success, Danny Boyle’s Oscar win with Slumdog Millionaire, and Alex Garland’s own film career, it’s not entirely surprising to see these filmmakers go back to the zombie well. 28 Years Later is the third film in the horror franchise and you guessed it, takes 28 […]

THE REHEARSAL SEASON 2 TV REVIEW Once in a great while, a hero emerges from the shadows and shows the world that nothing is impossible. All it takes is…a little rehearsing. Nathan Fielder is back with season 2 of The Rehearsal and sheds light on an issue that could affect us all. Airplane crashes. More […]

WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO BETTE & JOAN? EPISODE 6 – I Saw What You Did and Burnt Offerings Welcome to another episode of What Ever Happened to Bette & Joan?, an ongoing journey through late-era Bette Davis & Joan Crawford. This week, our travels through grand dame guignol cinema comes to a close as we […]

KARATE KID: LEGENDS MOVIE REVIEW In the latest chapter of ‘no once-successful IP will ever die’ Karate Kid: Legends marks the sixth film in the franchise. Moving the action at first to Beijing, the film centers on Li Fong (Ben Wang) a teenager training with his great-uncle and shifu of a successful school, Mr. Han […]