When not writing film and tv reviews, Jami is expanding her collection of colorful sunglasses, lifting weights, and working her day job as a Digital Advertising Director. An alumnus of NYU Tisch for Film/TV, Jami made Los Angeles her home in the early 2000s and continues her quest to find the very BEST tacos of all time.
This is it. Episode four is apparently the final episode of THE MAN WILL BURN, though it feels like there should be more to it. When I first started reviewing this docuseries a couple weeks ago, I was on the fence about whether it should even exist. I’ll say it now: MUDBURN was absolutely my favorite episode of the series, the most rounded and well-done episode by far. And my final answer is no. This show should not exist. Let’s…
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TED LASSO is back, and HOME plays more like a prologue than a premiere.Ted's old friends show up in Kansas with a big question, familiar faces return, and the show already feels new and familiar at once. Higgins is affable, Keeley's full of ideas, and Rebecca is still the boss ass bitch.…
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SPIDER-MAN: BRAND NEW DAY had a chance to be my favorite Spidey movie yet, and it hurts that it isn't. It takes plenty of big swings, and when they land, they're wonderful additions to the MCU. But most don't, and the MCU doesn't move as far forward as it could have.…
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THE MAN WILL BURN Episode 3, WAKING DREAMS, felt like a series of extended interviews. It missed the magic that was Black Rock City, 2022, where the city itself was the biggest character.…
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As someone who has been to Burning Man several times, starting in 2010, I’m not sure THE MAN WILL BURN as a series on HBO and HBO Max should exist. (More on that later.) So for this review and any future reviews I may write about this docuseries, I will solely base my rating (🤩 or 😊 or 🤮) on my opinion of the quality of each episode. That will include the content covered, those that are interviewed, the quality…
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Perhaps there is no other living filmmaker more qualified to adapt THE ODYSSEY than Christopher Nolan. Just three years after OPPENHEIMER, he drops his latest epic and it absolutely soars on every scale.…
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If you’re a fan of composers, conductors, and classical music, THE YELLOW TIE is just for you. Directed and co-written by Serge Ioan Celebidachi about his father, the late Romanian maestro Sergiu Celibidache, who left behind his political dynasty family in Romania to pursue his love of music across Europe and beyond. The film is stunningly gorgeous, but I didn’t find the subject matter all that interesting. …
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PILLION will stay with you after you see it, perhaps for days like it has me. It’s an honest portrayal of an intimate relationship we don’t often see depicted on film. It’s both tender and rough, comforting and heartbreaking, simple and complex.…
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GOOD LUCK, HAVE FUN, DON’T DIE is the first great film of 2026. Sam Rockwell leads this original science fiction comedy directed by Gore Verbinski (PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN 1-3, RANGO) and written by Matthew Robinson (LOVE AND MONSTERS).…
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