I now understand why the internet trolled this movie so hard. — I’m not a big superhero fan. While I love the creativity of the world-building, and some of the movies are quite engaging, it’s not my go-to genre. I respect (some of) these movies while also knowing that I am not the target audience. And that’s okay. I knew nothing about…

An efficient, thrilling, and relatable story… of crime. — (NOTE: This article contains some spoilers for the movie.) Emily the Criminal introduces us to Emily (Aubrey Plaza), a young woman who is saddled with student loan debt and is just trying to keep afloat. We see her working her low-paying jobs, looking for full-time work, and eventually engaging in…

A mockumentary that hits close to home. — In Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul., we meet Pastor Lee-Curtis Childs (Sterling K. Brown), a megachurch pastor who has fallen from grace in the community after a scandal. His wife, First Lady Trinitie Childs (Regina Hall), has stood by him and is trying to help him get ready to…

Who knew a one-inch shell could teach us so much? — I’m not good at the interwebs or social media. I don’t understand a lot of internet culture, and I don’t get sucked into internet trends very often. As a result, I had never heard of the YouTube sensation Marcel the Shell. When the trailer dropped for the feature film, my…

Another fun mystery with an eclectic cast of characters. — Only Murders in the Building is a Hulu Original about an unlikely trio that forms after a man is murdered in their building. Charles-Haden Savage (Steve Martin) is a has-been actor struggling to stay relevant, Oliver Putnam (Martin Short) is a financially-struggling theater director, and Mabel Mora (Selena Gomez) is…

The next step in my ever-evolving relationship with this platform. — I’m bad at Medium. This is a fact that I’ve come to accept. Its social media-esque algorithm means that I’m never going to be great at this platform. I don’t have the energy to give this website the attention it requires in order to make a significant amount of money…

Reflecting on four years of podcasting and movie reviews. Back in 2018, Jennifer and I discovered that we shared a deep love of movies. We started a beautiful trend of having movie nights and then staying up until the wee hours of the morning discussing everything we had just seen…

But is still an engaging noir. — In this noir, Vincent Parry (Humphrey Bogart), a man convicted of murdering his wife, escapes from prison and, while evading the authorities, seeks to prove his innocence. Dark Passage is an engaging mystery and a fun ride. It’s definitely not the best Bogart/Bacall film, but it’s fun nonetheless. My biggest…

The show had a great second season… until the last episode. — Made for Love is an HBO Max show that introduces us to Hazel (Cristin Milioti), a woman who has been trapped in a marriage to a tech mogul for 10 years. …