EMILIA PEREZ is a story of love and an F.U. to masculinity. It’s beautifully complicated in all the right ways only director Jacques Audiard could make. It has been twenty-four hours since I saw it, and I still can’t shake its haunting music, themes, dance numbers, and, most importantly, the lead performances. Karla Sofía Gascón will surely be nominated, Zoe Saldana delivers the best performance of her career, and Selena Gomez reminds us that she can sing and dance. With that…
Continue ReadingA soaring tale about society and the environment, this Hitchcock classic claws at you, then flies high above expectation.…
Continue ReadingA group of self-obsessed, sycophantic twenty-something-year-olds get together to play a deadly game. Sound familiar? IT’S WHAT’S INSIDE attempts to achieve the charisma of other iconic horror comedies like BODIES BODIES BODIES, and while it does not necessarily achieve the same charm, its’ premise and tone are entertaining enough to merit a watch, especially with a run-time of just over an hour-and-a-half. The concept of IT’S WHAT’S INSIDE is silly yet thought-provoking, a difficult but necessary dichotomy to achieve for…
Continue ReadingHEARTSTOPPER’s third season is a return to form after a muddling second season that spent too much time on lesser characters (ugh, that Paris subplot). What I loved about S3 was watching all of the coupling and how each relationship grew stronger in the face of adversity. Charlie and Nick are clearly the main characters in HEARTSTOPPER. Yet, that doesn’t stop the supporting cast from all having emotionally satisfying arcs – Tao and Ellie ❤️. My only nit for season…
Continue ReadingLONELY PLANET is a predictable, slow-paced, rom-com with insipid dialogue and an age gap of huge proportions.…
Continue ReadingALI WONG: SINGLE LADY is back on the road doing her stand-up schtick again.…
Continue ReadingA man with a very unique kind of movie stardom...…
Continue ReadingMONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL is a cult classic masterpiece.…
Continue ReadingNOBODY WANTS THIS is comedy at its best.…
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