There have been a few movies about failing relationships; Marriage Story, Kramer vs Kramer, Blue Valentine, and Crazy, Stupid, Love. The premise is all the same, two hours of watching what could go wrong over time between two people who once cared about each other. Well enter the Roses, Benedict Cumberbatch/Theo is a successful architect … Continue reading The Roses
Anna and Tess Coleman are back in each other's bodies but this time it’s even more complicated. Single-mom Anna (Lindsay Lohan) has her hands full with her daughter Harper, her career, and trying to blend a family with her fiancé Eric and his daughter Lilly. Now the week of the wedding, they all have to … Continue reading Freakier Friday
Trigger warning: movie discusses sexual assault How do you know someone is your type? What makes a relationship “work”? These are all questions matchmaker Lucy (Dakota Johnson) answers when her clients come to her for help. As she’s celebrating a client's wedding she meets the groom’s attractive brother (Pedro Pascal) and also runs into her … Continue reading Materialists
After many assassination attempts, controversial businessman Zsa-Zsa Korda hopes to bequeath his business to his only daughter. That’s about as simple as I can make the plot summary. You follow along as the father-daughter duo travel the world and try and build a relationship. In typical Wes Anderson fashion, at the end, you’re not sure … Continue reading The Phoenician Scheme
We all have had that one almost-friendship. You know what I’m talking about, it’s the time someone tried to be your friend but it just didn’t work out personality-wise. Enter Craig (Tim Robinson from I Think You Should Leave) who just wants to have a suburban bromance with Austin/Paul Rudd (who wouldn’t) when things don’t … Continue reading Friendship
Netflix original romcoms, we love to hate them don’t we? But then there are the ones that are sneakily good that you have to give them the props they’re owed. This is one of them. Alex/Sofia Carson made a list of all the things she wanted to do in her life when she was 13. … Continue reading The Life List
Number of episodes: 10 Girl boss. Usually, that means someone who has hustled and earned her top-dog spot in the business world through merit and grit. In reformed-party-girl Isla Gordon’s (Kate Hudson/Andy Anderson) case, she becomes the boss because her brother goes to rehab. Now a pro basketball team is owned by the underdog of … Continue reading Running Point
Time to get out the popcorn because we have a showdown. Doting single dad Will Farrell and uptight sister-in-law Reese Witherspoon are at odds when the venue they book for their loved ones’ wedding double books them. What starts as a peaceful coexistence turns nuclear once they start going tit-for-tat with sabotage. From complicated family … Continue reading You’re Cordially Invited
Two cousins all grown up travel to Poland to honor their grandmother's memory. Jesse Eisenberg (The Social Network, Now You See Me) plays David, the type A-OCD cousin and Kiernan Culkin (Succession) plays Benji, the charismatic and unpredictably loud cousin. This movie was very somber. They're on a heritage-guided tour of different landmarks and a … Continue reading A Real Pain
From the same producers as Insecure, see a refreshingly funny female duo! Alyssa/SZA and Dreaux, pronounced Drew/Keke Palmer are best friends and roommates who are trying to figure out what to do next with their lives. They're managing to stay afloat until Alyssa’s flakey boyfriend spends their rent money. Now they have 8 hours to … Continue reading One Of Them Days
Emily and Matt are former CIA agents who left the spy world to raise a family. That is until the bad guys find them and their two teenagers 15 years later and wreak havoc. At first glance, this movie is similar to the 2010 classic Killers with Ashton Kutcher and Katherine Heigl, but it’s very … Continue reading Back in Action
Santa's been kidnapped the day before Christmas by a mythical villain, and it's up to the head E.L.F (The Rock) and an international tracker (Captain America) to help find him. Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson and Chris Evans are an unlikely pairing but I think it works! Both have great deadpan humor which translates well to … Continue reading Red One
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