Narrative crutches can make or break a TV series, and Love, Victor walks that very fine line in its second season, premiering today on Hulu. After initially DMing Simon, from Love, Simon, (Nick Robins…
‘Cruella’ review: A roaring and fashionable good time
Mark down Cruella as a villain origin story you didn’t know you needed. The latest trend of giving backstories to otherwise pretty transparent characters does get a bit tedious, but Craig Gillespie’s …
‘Things Heard & Seen’ review: A bonkers ending saves this film’s predictable and uninteresting beginning
It’s rare that a film starts as bad as this one does and still manages to stick the landing. Things Heard & Seen begins as a typical haunted house story riddled with cliches but somewhere al…
‘We Broke Up’ review: A standard break-up film with some surprising tricks up its sleeve
What you see is what you get in Jeff Rosenberg’s We Broke Up. A couple breaks up in the first two minutes and what follows are random yet predictable scenarios for the rest of the runtime as the two m…
‘Zack Snyder’s Justice League’ review: An epic, overly long, and chaotic superhero tale that still improves on its predecessor on almost every level
To say I was dreading Zack Snyder’s Justice League is a gross understatement. After years of watching a toxic fandom grow on Twitter, hearing that a four-hour cut was set to premiere on HBO Max seemed…
‘The Falcon and the Winter Soldier’ premiere review: Sam & Bucky get much-needed focus
Marvel’s television shows are the perfect setting to handle the fallout of the “blip” from Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame. The return of half the population after five years gone was mos…
Sundance 2021: ‘The Dog Who Wouldn’t Be Quiet’ is a calming portrait of life’s disruptions
Strange prophecy abounds in The Dog Who Wouldn’t Be Quiet, written and directed by Ana Katz. An understated exploration of human connection, the film follows thirty-something Sebastian (Daniel Katz) t…