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I wasn’t a big fan of Stick, AppleTV’s Owen Wilson-led golf comedy, in its first season. While Wilson was solid, if not spectacular, playing a typical Owen Wilson character in Pryce “Stick” Cahill, the show’s paint by numbers writing and lack of any real emotional depth or stakes didn’t keep my interest. And I wasn’t planning […]
If you’ve been lamenting that AppleTV+ doesn’t currently have a new comedy centered around a middle aged straight white man who refuses to deal with a personal trauma and instead tries to go out of his way to help those around him at the expense of his own mental health that stars a beloved (or […]
The works of DC Comics have been eclectic. There have been light-hearted Silver Age stories to much darker tales. One of their lighter properties, The Legion of Super-Pets has now been adapted into an animated film. Krypto (Dwayne Johnson) is the loyal companion to Superman (John Krasinski). They are best friends and partners in superheroics. However, […]
Dreamworks’ latest film The Bad Guys is based on a graphic novel by Aaron Blabey. This animated crime caper asks the question of whether stereotypes should dictate someone’s role in society. Mr. Wolf (Sam Rockwell) is the leader of the Bad Guys gang. After the governor, Diane Foxington (Zazie Beetz) makes a personal attack against the gang, Wolf […]
Aretha Franklin is the latest beloved musical to receive the biopic treatment. It’s a film following on a tread that Walk the Line and Bohemian Rhapsody has started. Respect follows the life of Aretha Franklin (Skye Dakota Turner/Jennifer Hudson) from the age of 10 to the release of her live album of Amazing Grace in 1972. During this 20-year period Franklin’s musical […]
Warning: This piece will spoil the entire third season of Netflix’s comedy GLOW. So, if you haven’t watched season three yet, fire up your Netflix account and get on it. Seriously, it’s only 10 episodes, and most are under 35 minutes. You can handle that. There’s so much to love about GLOW: The complex characters. […]
A few weeks ago, a question was posed to TV critics on Twitter: What are the Top 10 best streaming shows, not counting international shows that air in the US on streaming sites? A smattering of critics discussed what they would pick, and the choices included several common shows, but, for the most part, were […]