KATRINA BABIES is a documentary focused on how the children felt during Hurricane Katrina and the aftermath when the levees flooded New Orleans.…
Continue ReadingHOUSE OF THE DRAGON is building up empathy, complexities, and relationships that are only subtly alluded to in the source material.…
Continue ReadingIn PRETEND DADDY, the most intense episode of this season (and perhaps of any "non-scripted" show), Nathan is facing negative repercussions of his brand of comedy.…
Continue ReadingTHE REHEARSAL hit several high, intense moments during this week’s episode. It helped having "Dr. Fart" make an appearance and demand “eating the poo.”…
Continue ReadingTHE REHEARSAL this week was a lesson in perspective.…
Continue ReadingIn the grips of 2020’s quarantine, filmmaker Joe Hunting discovered a group of people processing their isolation through the budding frontier of virtual reality. The metaverse is a newer enterprise in technology—one that, frankly, even I don’t fully comprehend yet. And that’s OK. The HBO documentary WE MET IN VIRTUAL REALITY is user-friendly for people like me. All I knew going into this film is that VR is beginning to take off, many people doubt it will catch on, and…
Continue ReadingOn one level, THE REHEARSAL introduces you to people the likes of which you may never interact with. Every featured rehearsee is unique and casually absurd.…
Continue ReadingTHE REHEARSAL is an uncomfortable, quirky look at “ordinary” peoples' fears of screwing up important moments, conversations, and life decisions.…
Continue ReadingTHE REHEARSAL feels almost like QUEER EYE sometimes, except, instead of Karamo Brown, you have a host desperately trying to make friends.…
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