Reviews

The original was spot on, so we were naturally skeptical about the arrival of the new Jumanji movie.. The unlikely remake, however, shaped up to be a pleasant surprise. The modern day version of the board game is a video console and the high-school kids who discover it literally become...

Ricky Gervais and Netflix's latest dark comedy had us experiencing all kinds of emotions and occasionally in hysterics. The 6-episode series follows the life of Tony (Ricky Gervais) after his wife dies from cancer. Tony loved his wife tremendously and now that she's gone, he is struggling to find reason...

Netflix's highly-anticipated The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance is so much more than Jim Henson fantasy nostalgia. It doesn't remake the original story, but rather it enters Henson's beautiful fantasy world and builds on it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PTjIWyRmls The most obvious and remarkable success of the series is the cinematography. Netflix's vision of...

Six years may have passed since the Breaking Bad finale, but El Camino picks up the second that Season 5 left off. Jesse has just escaped from enslavement by Jack's gang and minutes later, his cat and mouse chase with the police commences. The timeline of the film follows...

Ken Kesey's 1962 novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, which was turned into a film in 1975, is a classic for a reason and over the years, we've found ourselves rereading and rewatching the masterpiece. The film, which was based on the novel, takes place in an Oregon psychiatric...

The Umbrella Academy returned for a second season, which, like the first, left us with more questions than answers. To briefly sum up the season, the Hargreeves end up in Dallas, Texas in the early 1960s. They are scattered throughout the first few years of the decade before reuniting...

All good things must come to an end and The Good Place is no exception. After four seasons of brilliantly witty philosophy and drama, Eleanor, Chidi, Tahani and Jason's journey finally comes to an end. The final episode begins with Michael failing to play guitar. Janet offers him a...

The End of the F***ing World came as a pleasant surprise back in 2017. Starring Alex Lawther and Jessica Barden, season one flipped romantic norms on their heads and told the honest and surprising tale of two lost teenagers. The first season wrapped up so well that even though...

Green Book takes place in the early '60s and is based on a true story. The performances of Vigo Mortensen as Tony Lip and Mahershala Ali as Don Shirley were Oscar worthy and convincing on all accounts. While a movie inevitably cannot solve every issue surrounding race, it is...

Greta Gerwig’s latest feature "Lady Bird" is a unique coming of age story with a wonderful sensitivity to it. The movie is set in Sacremento, California in 2002 and follows the journey of Christine McPherson (Saoirise Ronan), who has given herself the name "Lady Bird." She's a pink-haired rebel, and...