‘Mixtape’ review: A heartwarming story about connecting with the past

Netflix’s Mixtape is a surprisingly wholesome tween movie. Set in 1999, 12-year-old Beverly Moody (Gemma Brooke Allen) lives with her grandmother Gail (Modern Family’s Julie Bowen) since her young parents died in a car crash when she was only two.…

TV Review: Modern Family “The Butler’s Escape”

This season of Modern Family seems like it’ll be turn out to be much the same as the last two: riotously funny, tremendously warmhearted, and alarmingly inconsistent. There are episodes of such comedic perfection (last week’s “Schooled” came close) and…

TV Review: Modern Family “Schooled”/”Snip”

Three-time consecutive Emmy winner Modern Family is now three episodes into its fourth season, and its proving to be a rollicking senior year for the riotously funny mockumentary series. The first of the night’s double-header, however, wasn’t about senior year,…