Reviews by Jennifer

• October 27, 2016
• Action, At Home, War

Sooo, I finally saw Rambo. It was fine. Okay, it wasn’t fine. It wasn’t fine at all. It made me mad. And I know it got decent reviews and was less crappy than anyone dreamed, but Sly TOTALLY missed the mark with this one. It’s the Rocky V of...

• October 27, 2016
• Action, At Home, War

I don’t recall ever having standards, but at some point in my young life, I must have decided that 96% action and 4% dialogue was a bad ratio for a movie. I remember feeling that Rambo didn’t hold a candle to First Blood, and must have boycotted Rambo III...

• October 27, 2016
• Action, At Home, War

After revisiting First Blood I was chomping at the bit to get my hands on the sequel. You can imagine my horror when I got it home and the tape wouldn’t play. I practically dropped to my knees and shook my fist at the sky, but I took a...

• October 27, 2016
• At Home, Comedy, Drama

Son of Rambow is the most exhilarating, heart-wrenching, and surprising little movie I’ve watched in a long time, and I don’t think that’s only because it’s about me. It beautifully illustrates the power of friendship and imagination in the life of a child, and shows that these forms of...

• October 26, 2016
• Animation, At Home, Fantasy

After becoming completely exasperated with Damian’s risky, self-serving behavior, the Justice League sends him to work with the Teen Titans. The hope is that Damian will bond with kids his own age and learn to work as part of a team. Though his peers do their best to include...

• October 25, 2016
• Books, Horror

As promised, the book covers 101 films over roughly 100 years, and suggests the best picks for each decade (1910s-2000s). It’s a good sampling of horror film history, and covers foreign film as well as mainstream American fare, though you could argue that some selections don’t entirely qualify as...

• September 20, 2016
• At Home, Drama, Family, Television, Western

I remember an entire Sunday spent waiting for the airing of Look Back to Yesterday. I was six and must have reminded my parents that we’d be watching it at least a few hundred times. When it finally FINALLY came on, everything was weird and Albert was sick, passing...

• September 13, 2016
• Adventure, At Home, Family, Fantasy

Pete’s Dragon is one of those dubious Disney classics that seems great when you’re a kid, but doesn’t quite stand the test of time. I remember watching it over and over again when I was little, but I also remember finding some parts of the movie so embarrassingly obnoxious...

• September 9, 2016
• Action, At Home, Comedy

Set in Los Angeles in 1977, The Nice Guys finds private eye Holland March and hired heavy Jackson Healy crossing paths in search of a missing girl, Amelia (Margaret Qualley). They soon realize their shared purpose, and team up in spite of their rather distinct and sometimes conflicting personalities....

• July 28, 2016
• At Home, Comedy

The Ratings Game finds Jersey trucking magnate Vic De Salvo (Danny DeVito) struggling to make it in Hollywood. He has no shortage of money or ideas, but he seems to be lacking some element of class and mainstream appeal. At best, his projects would attract a niche audience of...

• July 28, 2016
• At Home, Comedy, Science Fiction, Television

It had been a full year since I’d watched iZombie when Season 2 of this quirky show came into my life. I wanted to see it and knew it would be good, but I had forgotten that iZombie is fabulous. In case you’ve also forgotten, iZombie is the story...

• July 12, 2016
• At Home, Documentary

We’re all familiar with that “new” smell that accompanies Christmas morning, a birthday, or a big shopping trip. In some ways it evokes positive feelings of presents and shiny new things, but deep down, we all know that smell is chemicals. After his daughters receive some particularly stinky new...