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As someone who, in my previous life, was an attorney, I have a hard time watching shows about the legal process and taking them seriously. After all, it can become distracting when you know a character should have objected to a line of questioning – or shouldn’t have been allowed to object to a line […]
Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret is the long-awaited adaptation of Judy Blume’s celebrated young adult novel of the same name. Kelly Fremon Craig and James L. Brooks gets the opportunity to adapt the book after Blume rejected many offers for the film rights. Margaret Simon (Abby Ryder Fortson) is a sixth-grade girl who moves from […]
The world is currently in eco-conscious times and more people are voicing and protesting about these issues. How to Blow Up a Pipeline explores the idea of people taking extreme action to save the environment. A group of disenfranchised young people brought together by Xochiti (Ariela Barer), a college student and activist. They arrive in West Texas […]
City on Fire, the new AppleTV+ series from Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage (both best known for The O.C. and Gossip Girl) and based on the novel of the same name from Garth Risk Hallberg, has a lot of DNA in common with those soapy primetime dramas. And, if you’re someone who enjoys a series […]
The Guardians of the Galaxy return for a third cinematic adventure and final hooray for the original cast and James Gunn. The Guardians of the Galaxy have established their headquarters on Knowhere and it serves as a safe haven for the Galaxy’s disenfranchised. However, Knowhere gets attacked by Adam Warlock (Will Poulter) and it leaves […]
George Foreman was one of the most famous boxers of all time and he came in an era of legendary boxers like Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier. He gets a biopic that looks at important moments in his life with Big George Foreman. As a child, George Foreman (Khris Davis) grew up in poverty in Houston and was […]
Rachel Joyce adapts her own novel, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry for a British version of a road movie. Harold Fry (Jim Broadbent) is a retiree who lives in South Devon. When Harold receives a letter from an old work colleague staying in a hospice, dying from cancer, he decides to walk the length and breadth of […]
I’ll be the first to admit that I really don’t understand the appeal of Pete Davidson, the former SNL star who has found himself the fascination of the tabloids, gossip sites, and the world at large (through little of his own doing) over the past several years. I’ve found him to be fine in his […]
If you’ve seen any of the myriad of post-apocalyptic television shows, films, or read any of the books out there, you likely have a basic understanding of the various forces at work within Silo, the new dramatic thriller from AppleTV+, adapted from the series of novels under the same name from Hugh Howey. But the […]
Nida Manzoor makes her move from television to feature films with her directional debut Polite Society. It’s one of the most creative and eclectic films of 2023, so far. Ria Khan (Priya Kansara) is a teenage girl who wants to become a stuntwoman. She doesn’t want to fulfill cultural or gender expectations. Ria is close with […]