Movie Review: Argylle
Argylle reminded me of an important lesson to remember when watching a movie. Pointless and bad are two different things. Red Notice is probably where …
Comedy
Movie Review: Fallen Leaves
Ah, the great amour. Most movies make falling in love feel like magic, with gorgeous, ambitious people finding romance in exotic, beautiful places. Fallen Leaves …
Movie Review: The Book of Clarence
I am all for Jeymes Samuel’s crusade. For years, black people only had chances to play stereotypes if any roles at all in classic movie …
Movie Review: Mean Girls (2024)
For the Gen Zers, I can’t possibly explain how exciting 2004’s Mean Girls was. It seemed that until that point high school stories were filtered …
Movie Review: Anyone But You
The movies were really trying a lot of stuff in 2023. We had a couple tries at bringing back the R Rated comedy. Video gamers …
Movie Review: American Fiction
Through entertainment, American audiences have become accustomed to 3 types of stories about African-Americans: either they’re slaves, Civil rights fighters, or super poor, pregnant, drug …
Movie Review: Dashing Through the Snow
That’s right. Ludacris, who wanted to lick you head to toe, or to movie b*tch, get out the way and get back mother f*cker you …
Movie Review: The Naughty Nine
Now that’s what I’m talking about. Not that I was rooting against Journey to Bethlehem, but I was hoping something more Santa-ey would challenge the …
Movie Review: Poor Things
Maybe it was Colin Farrell. Yorgos Lanthimos has a certain way with words, which work perfectly if Colin Farrell says them. However, that dialogue inside …
Movie Review: Family Switch
Family Switch is the fruitcake of Christmas movies. A little bit of everything goes into this one. Sometimes you take a bite, and the movie …