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.
The themes of love and loss and being held captive by our fears are just the tip of the iceberg for what I got out of ALL OF US STRANGERS. The entire film can be seen as a coming-out story, especially for those who grew up in the 80s and 90s when it was even less safe for LBGTQ+ folks than it is now.…
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THE HUNGER GAMES, but make it a musical is the very basic premise of this prequel to the popular series from the 2010’s. Also make sure all of the songs hit you over the head with their themes and lyrics, like one of those literal music videos that used to be popular on YouTube. A BALLAD OF SONGBIRDS & SNAKES is hard to spoil because everything about it is in the title. Every plot turns and a lot of the…
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Have you ever imagined how a film might turn out if you threw a bunch of Zack Snyder unproduced ideas into a ChatGPT type bot, plus some Star Wars fan fiction written in the 90s by then teens, and asked it to spit out a sci-fi script? The first part of Snyder’s latest, REBEL MOON: PART 1 is actually far worse than that.…
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“If you believe in this spirit thing, the miracle will happen, and then you’ll want it to happen again tomorrow… It can happen every day, you’ve just got to want that feeling.” – Bill Murray in SCROOGED That’s right – it’s time to feel the moment and that holiday spirit thing. It’s time for Spoiler Free Review’s 12 days of Christmas 2023 edition! We will post our favorite holiday experiences with 12 reviews and illustrations of movies, TV, and music.…
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Before I dive into my review of AQUAMAN AND THE LOST KINGDOM, I want to say that my movie-going experience was a 🤩and the movie itself was a 🤮which is how I got to this middle-of-the-road rating.…
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Does HOLIDAY AFFAIR have some redeeming qualities? Yes, of course! Seeing the depictions of long-gone department stores selling toys with real salespeople is magical. And watching customers get dressed up in suits and dresses to go to the store.…
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There have been sequels, remakes, and parodies galore, but none could match the magic of the original RUDOLPH. There's a reason it's the longest-running Christmas TV special of all time. …
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I grew up on the Japanese Godzilla movies. In my small town in upstate New York, there was a cable channel or a local network that would play the films from the 1950s through the 1980s quite regularly. GODZILLA (1954), GODZILLA VS. MOTHRA (1964), and GODZILLA VS. MECHAGODZILLA (1974) are some of my favorites. Up until this past weekend, I had never seen a Japanese Godzilla movie on the big screen and that’s a big mistake on my part. We…
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This new Apple TV+ show, set in the same universe as GODZILLA (2014), KONG: SKULL ISLAND (2017), GODZILLA: KING OF THE MONSTERS (2019), and GODZILLA VS. KONG (2021) was somewhat off my radar before it premiered. I blame a large chunk of that on the AMPTP dragging their feet and not agreeing to the strike demands of SAG-AFTRA and the WGA, but I’m still surprised Apple didn’t put more promotions into it. I’m a lifelong Godzilla-King Kong-Mothra fan, and I…
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