EIGHTH GRADE Review — For the Junior High Schooler in All of Us
EIGHTH GRADE Review — Get ready for a trip back to Jr. High, warts and all From the very first seconds of Eighth Grade, you know it’s a special film. It opens on the latest installment of 13-year-old Kayla’s charmingly self-conscious video blog, covering social skills like “Being Yourself,” and “Putting Yourself Out There.” She…
MAMA MIA! HERE WE GO AGAIN Review — Cheesy Yet Pleasy
Mama Mia! Here We Go Again Review — How this film works is Greek to me, but it does Cheesy? Check Plot free? Check Banal? Double check Overdone? Triple check Curiously intriguing and joyful? Quadruple check!!!! Mama Mia! Here We Go Again is definitely a film where the the whole is far greater than sum…
UnREAL Moves to Hulu for Its Final Season and is Available NOW!
The Fourth and Final Season of the Peabody Award-winning Drama UnREAL Debuts Today as a Hulu Original Series Here’s the official press release: SANTA MONICA, CA [July 16, 2018] Everlasting has moved its set to Hulu. In a new deal between Hulu and A+E Studios, the fourth and final season of fan favoritedrama series, UnREAL, is…
Cue the Piano and Strings! The DOWNTON ABBEY MOVIE is ON!
Woo Hoo! Production has been officially announced on a Downton Abbey movie, with many members of the original cast coming back Here’s the official press release from Focus: LONDON, UK, July 13, 2018 – Focus Features chairman Peter Kujawski announced today that Focus has set production with Carnival Films on the Downton Abbey movie. The original…
SKYSCRAPER Review — Rocking a Good Old Fashioned Disaster Flick
SKYSCRAPER Review: A classic summer popcorn movie starring the Rock, duct tape and a prosthetic leg Take Towering Inferno, throw in some Die Hard, and sprinkle in a little Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol for good measure, then mix it all together with a liberal helping of Dwayne Johnson and voila! You have Skyscraper. It’s a classic summer popcorn movie starring the Rock, duct…
HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA 3: SUMMER VACATION: Not Winning with Win
Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation Review by 10-year-old Winston Ordoña Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation is a formulaic continuation of the animated series that changes the location, but little else. The previous films were about Dracula (Adam Sandler) having to open up to something, and his monster friends (Keegan-Michael Key as Murray the Mummy, David Spade as…
2018 Emmy Nominations — It’s a Mixed Bag This Year
Game of Thrones is the most nominated, with Westworld and SNL right behind Nominees for the 70th Primetime Emmy Awards were just announced, and as usual, I think some shows were overrated, some were underrated, but I do applaud the diversity. HBO’s “Game of Thrones” grabbed the most nods with 22; NBC’s SNL and HBO’s “Westworld,”…
ANT-MAN AND THE WASP Review — What’s All the Buzz About?
ANT-MAN AND THE WASP Review — Lisa Johnson Mandell feels it’s somewhat less than Marvelous I know that Star Wars burnout is a big thing now, but is anyone else cooling off on the Marvel Comics Universe? Ant-Man and the Wasp is supposed to be a “much-needed MCU palate cleanser,” but I see it as…
Amazon Studios Signs First Look Deal With Nicole Kidman’s Blossom Films
Here’s the official Press Release: Amazon Studios today announced it has signed a first look deal with Oscar, Golden Globe and Emmy Award-winner Nicole Kidman (Big Little Lies) and her production company Blossom Films for theatrical, television series, and digital content. The companies will work together to develop original series that will be available exclusively…
JURASSIC WORLD: FALLEN KINGDOM Review — It always boils down to who let the dinos out
It’s hard to believe this franchise goes clear back to 1993, that this is the fifth installment, and that audiences are still thrilled, shocked and riveted when those darn dinos start running loose. And the one scene where the T-Rex chomps down on the head and upper torso of the bad guy and starts shaking…
