Instant Family — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0scW5lXAT8 Brynn: No doubt this movie will make me laugh and cry—as it was meant to do to bleeding hearts like me, who love a good heartfelt family movie. Yet, despite the upbeat indie background music and the montage of loving and funny moments, I feel slightly tense watching the trailer. I…
Dear To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before (2018), I’ve been trying to piece you together for quite some time now. It’s nothing to do with your plot—the story is so clearly written it’s impossible to not understand. It’s about the fact that I have watched you three times in the past week, and I…
The Other Side of the Wind — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMWHBUTHmf0 Brynne: The chaos of this trailer seems to reflect the erratic career of J.J. Hannaford (Jake Huston), a fictitious film director likely in some ways molded in the image of Orson Welles himself. Welles’ complicated life and career are sadly often forgotten beyond the confines of…
To say that a lot has happened in Ariana Grande’s life since the release of her last album, Dangerous Woman (2016), is a bit of an understatement. There was the bombing at one of her concerts in Manchester, England, in May 2017. There was her breakup with rapper Mac Miller. And, if you have been…
There’s been good Marvel TV shows (Daredevil, Jessica Jones). There’s been bad ones (Iron Fist, Inhumans). And there’s even been ones that were just okay (Defenders). Marvel’s latest endeavor, Runaways, is something else entirely. The show opens with Alex Wilder (Rhenzy Feliz) trying to reunite with his friends Nico Minoru (Lyrica Okano), Karolina Dean (Virginia…
Chances are, if you’ve already watched this show, you’re from Brazil or going through a Narcos hangover. I don’t blame you: I’m a combination of both, which is probably what made me give this show a try. And it was….wow. O Mecanismo (translated into The Mechanism) is a political drama loosely based off the real…
Out of all the things about this show, Marvel’s The Punisher’s release date had to be the most puzzling. Planned for November 2017 after fans’ wildly positive reviews about the character’s first appearance in Daredevil, it premiered right after Marvel’s Defenders, somehow closing the year for the Marvel Netflix shows despite being, up to that…
Wonder will make you cry. Maybe it’s going to be when a boy mentions how he’d rather look at people’s shoes than at their facial reactions. Maybe it’s going to be when his mother drops him for a tour around his new school, her face filled with sadness and worry and hope. Or maybe you’ll…
Calling Happy Death Day a horror movie is a bit of a stretch. It has its fair share of jump scares, screams, and murder, but when the entire audience erupts in laughter at least five times in the first thirty minutes, it’s clear that this was misbranding. The film centers around Tree Gelbman (Jessica…