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MEAN GIRLS MOVIE REVIEW First off, if you haven’t seen the original 2004 movie Mean Girls, stop everything and go watch that first. It’s a comedy classic (even if it did crib A LOT from 1989’s Heathers) and it still holds up. I’m going to assume you’re going to enjoy it because it’s that good. […]

DICKS: THE MUSICAL MOVIE REVIEW Director Larry Charles (Borat, Bruno) likes to handle outrageous comedy material that borders on offensive. Adapting this off-broadway musical into a film was a step too far for some of our reviewers. The musical story involves two twin brothers, played by the show’s creators Josh Sharp and Aaron Jackson, who […]

THE AFTERPARTY SEASON 2 The songs off the playlist are winding down. The frantic dancing has slowed to a shuffling of feet in the drunken embrace of a lover that never was, and all the kegs are empty. You know what that means, catch me at the AFTERPARTY! Apple TV presents Season 2 of Chris […]

BOTTOMS MOVIE REVIEW From the writer and the director of the criminally underseen Shiva Baby comes this new high school raunchy comedy, Bottoms. PJ (Rachel Sennott) and Josie (Ayo Edebiri) are best friends, gay, and pretty much on the bottom rung of popularity at their school. And at their school, it is ALL about football. […]

WHAT WE DO IN THE SHADOWS SEASON 5 REVIEW What We Do In The Shadows, everybody’s favorite sitcom about vampires living together on Staten Island, is back for another season of mockumentary-style hijinks. Last season ended with Guillermo (Harvey Guillén), the long suffering familiar being turned into a vampire by someone who is NOT his […]

STRAYS MOVIE REVIEW Tired of rewatching Barbie and Oppenheimer for the 16th time? Well, you’re in luck! Strays is the new film directed by Josh Greenbaum (Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar) which tells the story of Reggie the dog, voiced by Will Ferrell. Reggie is a happy-go-lucky pup that loves his human […]

THEATER CAMP MOVIE REVIEW If you’re a theater kid, raised on a healthy dose of show tunes, spirit gum, musty stages, polite applause from audiences of mostly family, and plenty of delusions of grandeur that your high school production of Sweeney Todd is pretty much as good as the one in New York, then we’ve […]

PLATONIC SERIES REVIEW Two childhood best friends rekindle their camaraderie while juggling suburbia, bar ownership, relationships, and middle age. Did I mention that these two BFF’s are a man and a woman!? Apple TV presents Platonic, starring Rose Byrne as Sylvia and Seth Rogen as Will. For the past 15 years, Sylvia has put her […]

NO HARD FEELINGS MOVIE REVIEW Jennifer Lawrence plays Maddie, a woman scrambling to scrape together the money to save her house in beach town Montauk, NY. When her car is repossessed, she can no longer drive rideshare to make her goals and desperation sets in. The kind of desperation that has one take really bad […]

THE MARVELOUS MRS MAISEL SEASON 5 REVIEW Midge Maisel is back for her final set in the last season of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. As we left her in season 4, Rachel Brosnahan’s Midge found herself at a crossroads yet again trying to figure out with her manager Susie, played by Alex Borstein, what their […]

WHAT’S LOVE GOT TO DO WITH IT? MOVIE REVIEW Love, true love, is what brings us critics here today to talk about a movie about marriage. Marriage, that blessed arrangement, that dream within a dream. Director Shekhar Kapur and writer Jemima Khan present a romantic comedy that looks at the arrangement of marriage and asks […]

QUASI MOVIE REVIEW Oh boy, Broken Lizard is back, emphasis on the “broken” with Hulu’s new movie Quasi, starring said comedy troupe. Depending on who you talk to, it’s literally the most disappointing film ever, or just average. It seems Broken Lizard is stuck in a time warp, where the comedy really hasn’t evolved with […]

MAFIA MAMMA MOVIE REVIEW If someone offered me a viewing of a new film by a director who is a part of a billion dollar global phenomenon with Toni Collette as the lead, they’d be making an offer I couldn’t refuse! Mafia Mamma, directed by Catherine Hardwicke follows Kristin (Toni Collette), an empty nester with […]

DUNGEONS & DRAGONS: HONOR AMONG THIEVES MOVIE REVIEW It’s a harsh winter even for Neverwinter.  You find yourself in a stone prison along with your roommate, a grizzled barbarian woman.  You’re brought into a council room made up of a two person prison review board.  As you work to persuade the board to your release, […]

PAINT MOVIE REVIEW What if Bob Ross wasn’t who you thought he was? What if he was embroiled in some sort of seedy scandal? That’s the thought that led writer/director Brett McAdams to create Paint, the new IFC film starring Owen Wilson as Carl Nargle, a Bob Ross analog. Carl has hosted Burlington, Vermont’s number one […]

HISTORY OF THE WORLD, PART II SERIES REVIEW Better late than never…” some would say. It’s been over 40 years since History of the World, Part 1 graced the silver screen, so now it’s Hulu’s turn (along with Nick Kroll, Ike Barinholtz, Wanda Sykes, and Mel Brooks as Exec Producers) to put history in perspective. […]

COCAINE BEAR MOVIE REVIEW It’s a bear, but on cocaine! Now take that sentence, reorganize it 30 times, and you’ve pretty much got the movie Cocaine Bear. There, I just saved you 15 bucks. But I know, I know…“IT’S A BEAR, BUT ON COCAINE” you’re saying to yourselves. “I’ve just gotta see that”. I guess […]

YOU PEOPLE MOVIE REVIEW You People (directed by Kenya Barris, and written by Jonah Hill/Barris) is a rom com about Ezra (Jonah Hill) and Amira (Lauren London), and how they must navigate each other’s families before they get married. Ezra is a dude down with the culture but grew up in privilege with his parents […]

HOUSE PARTY MOVIE REVIEW In 1990, cinema was given a generation defining comedy that brought together hip hop duo Kid ‘n Play and the comedic chops of legends like Robin Harris and John Witherspoon. It was a teen romp about a fez-shaped fade-wearing kid going to a party at his friend’s house. However, after a […]

RICK AND MORTY SEASON 6 REVIEW Dan Harmon and Justin Roiland’s multiverse-traveling Doc Brown and Marty McFly animated absurdist satirical comedy is back for it’s sixth season. You get the returning voice talents of Justin Roiland, Chris Parnell, Spencer Grammer, and Sarah Chalke and loaded with a community of cameos such as Jack Black, Daniel […]

WEDNESDAY SERIES REVIEW They’re creepy, kooky, mysterious, spooky, and all together on Netflix. Wednesday, starring Jenna Ortega, follows the title character as she attempts to solve an ancient mystery from the time of buckled hats and witch burnings. The secrets are all hidden within the walls of her new school that was previously attended by […]

GLASS ONION: A KNIVES OUT MYSTERY MOVIE REVIEW We do declare there is a mystery afoot! Daniel Craig is back as Benoit Blanc in Rian Johnson’s follow up to Knives Out, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery. Blanc is in search of a new case that will breathe life back into his detective skills. Luckily, […]

WEIRD: THE AL YANKOVIC STORY MOVIE REVIEW It appears that Hollywood’s appetite for the musical biopic is truly insatiable. We’ve seen many a superstar receive the rise-and-fall biopic treatment, starting from their humble beginnings through their meteoric ascension, their drug-addled nosedive and eventually their triumphant return to the spotlight. It’s a tale as old as […]

BIRDEMIC 3: SEA EAGLE MOVIE REVIEW We’ve told you about many of the best of the fest movies from this year at Fantastic Fest. Now get ready for the worst one. Although, I guess that’s the point. As you can hear from Chris and Wright in their review, your results may vary as to whether […]

THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN MOVIE REVIEW Writer/director Martin McDonagh has reunited with Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson, the two stars of his wonderful and criminally underseen In Bruges, for this new pitch-black comedy set in a small town during the Irish Civil War. Farrell and Gleeson have been drinking buddies for ages but when one […]