The M Report

Every year, I publish a list on my personal blog of all the music that I enjoyed. I publish a preliminary list in early July and then a final …

The first film in this franchise Jurassic Park (1993) grossed over a billion dollars in the box office. All of the films starting with Jurassi…

It's an adaptation of the 2013 novel by Bernardine Evaristo, the first Black woman to win the Booker Prize, one of the top literary awards in …

I never saw Grand Prix (1966), which was nominated for three prizes at the 39th Academy Awards where it won three Oscars, including Best Sound…

Ciryl Gane is a French mixed-martial artist or MMA fighter, born in 1990. He started out in Muay Thai, but he's 6-foot-5 or nearly two meters …

This year marks the 20th anniversary of the TV series Noah's Arc (2005), which first aired on the cable channel Logo, a spin-off of the MTV ne…

Five years ago, in a review for Onward (2020), I pointed out that Pixar and Disney have a formula for how they craft their narratives. It's a …

This is the third film in the series that started with 28 Days Later (2002) and continued with 28 Weeks Later (2007). This is a franchise that…

This was a film that was nominated for the Queer Palm at the 77th Cannes Film Festival. The protagonists are a gay male couple, but the film i…

Stephen King has written a lot of books and there is a long list of adaptations from those books. There have been at least 40 films, based on …

Alain Guiraudie is a French filmmaker who has directed over a half-dozen features. I've only seen Stranger by the Lake (2014) and Staying Vert…

Anthony Bawn, Dontá Morrison and Brandon Moten are the co-owners of VIM Media LLC, a company that specializes in content development and distr…

This is the first animated production in the franchise beginning with Predator (1987), starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. The basic premise is a …

This film is filled with stars, but the true star is Wes Anderson, the writer-director, whose filmmaking style is always at the forefront of p…

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…