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There are certain black comedies or horror comedies where one watches people do bad things and one is expected to laugh at it or remain on the…

This is a Canadian film that got a limited theatrical release last year both in Canada and in the United States. I try to pay attention to lim…

This film got a limited release in December, 2024, probably only one or two cinemas in order to qualify for the Academy Awards. This film was …

The Karate Kid (1984) was a hit film that was the fifth highest-grossing title of the year of its release. It spawned three sequels and a loos…

Kate Hudson (How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days and Almost Famous) stars as Isla Gordon, an executive at a NBA team in Los Angeles, known as the Wav…

If you haven't seen the first batch of episodes, this show picks up five years after the ending of Season 1. Now, it's dealing with the ramifi…

Judy Blume is an author who has been writing books about children and young adults since the late 1960's. Her most famous is probably Are You …

If you haven't seen any of the previous films that started with Mission: Impossible (1996), which was the first of now eight entries, don't wo…

This series is telling the historical fiction of two past subjects. The first subject is the story of the "Forty Elephants," an all-female cri…

Mo Amer is a Palestinian comedian. At the age of 9, he and his family immigrated to Houston, Texas, as a result of the Gulf War. Amer's father…

Alan Alda (The West Wing and M*A*S*H), a TV legend, wrote and directed The Four Seasons (1981), a romantic comedy that was very successful nea…

In my review for A Nice Indian Boy (2025), I noticed that that film made a reference to Bros (2022), a flick marketed as the first major Holly…

Abel Tesfaye is a Canadian singer-songwriter who first entered the music scene in 2011 with his mixtape House of Balloons. His stage name is T…

Kerry Washington is best known for her Emmy-nominated work in Scandal (2012) and Confirmation (2016). She's moved into producing theater for B…

Nearly 20 years ago, Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez produced a couple of grind-house films, reflecting back to the exploitation flicks…

This is the 36th feature in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, or MCU. It's also the sixth and final film in Phase Five. In a lot of ways, it feel…

This series is about technology and how technology can and is affecting human beings. The "black mirror" is a reference to a person's cell pho…

If you were a fan of NBC's Will & Grace (1998), you might have an interest here. It's now one of the rare, multi-camera sitcoms to be prod…

This is the fourth installment in the series of films that began with Bridget Jones's Diary (2001). That romantic comedy went on to gross $281…

Tom Hardy (Venom and Mad Max: Fury Road) stars as Patrick Walker, a homicide detective who is at a convenience store on Christmas Eve, attempt…

This year marks the 20th anniversary of Brokeback Mountain (2005), a landmark in Hollywood in terms of LGBTQ representation. Based on a 2019 n…

This film references Nicholas Stoller's Bros (2022), a film that was marketed as the first gay romantic comedy by a major studio. It followed …

It's a vampire flick that spends a hour basically hiding and obscuring that fact. Eventually, it gets to a place where the supernatural phenom…

Ang Lee's The Wedding Banquet (1993) was a touchstone in queer cinema. It was a critically acclaimed gay romantic comedy with an Asian leading…

If you have Apple's iPhone or any Apple device since 2011, then you might be familiar with a wi-fi and Bluetooth service known as AirDrop, whi…

Michael Angarano is an Emmy-nominated actor for his role in This Is Us (2016). Angarano is in his mid to late 30's but he started acting as a …

Robert Littell is an author, comparable to John le Carré or Ian Fleming. He writes spy novels or espionage thrillers. He perhaps isn't as succ…

It was strange, but it's not a spoiler to say this film is based on a true story or based on the memories of the writer and co-director of thi…

Minecraft (2011) is the best-selling video game of all time. It has sold more than Super Mario Bros. (1985) and Sonic the Hedgehog (1991). Rec…

Every season, a group of people arrive at a fancy resort overseas. The first season took place in Hawaii. The second season took place in Ital…

The first season premiered in 2022. It centered on a young handsome man who is pulled into international espionage and government conspiracies…

This is a horror comedy and when it comes to horror comedies, the gold standard is Ghostbusters (1984) with its nearly perfect balance of humo…

This film is about three generations of men. The subjects are a young man in his mid 30's, his father who is in his 60's and the young man's g…

Gerard Butler has done a string of muscular genre films, basically filling the gap that Liam Neeson left. Around the late 2000's, early 2010's…

This film premiered at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival in January where it won the U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award and was a nominee for the …

Despite being a spy movie, one of the film's that came to mind was Knives Out (2019), which was obviously inspired by Agatha Christie's storie…

Jhett Tolentino is a Filipino theater producer. He's the second Filipino to win the Tony Award. He won for Best Play, Best Revival of a Play a…

Over the past few years, a term that has been thrown out in the media a lot is "cult of personality," which has been described as a kind of ce…

Much in the way that comic books or comic-book films do, this feature creates an alternative history. It rewrites the second half of the 20th …

The Looney Tunes began as theatrical short films in 1930. They each focused on various anthropomorphized animals and even some human character…

This series pulled off an amazing trick when it first premiered on YouTube back in 2018. A series like Stranger Things (2016) had already been…

I'm not exactly sure what it says about this show that its star is the least interesting thing about the show. There are a lot of spy shows or…

In 2012, a serious accident involving saturation diving caused a man to be trapped at the bottom of the North Sea. Alex Parkinson co-directed …

Black History Month 2025 is over, but, at the end of that month, a bit of Black history was made on television. CBS premiered the first daytim…

Emmy-winner and Oscar-nominee, Sterling K. Brown (This Is Us and The People v. O. J. Simpson) stars as Xavier Collins, a Secret Service agent …

It's interesting to learn that Norman Lear is an executive producer on this series. Lear is the creator of such iconic shows, such as All in t…

The 1990's was a very good time for Black sitcoms. It was a good time for multi-camera TV shows in general, but African Americans leading sitc…