• April 20, 2018
• At Home, Comedy

The basic conceit behind I Feel Pretty will hit a trigger point with most modern women who pay any attention to the media. If your face and body doesn’t...

• April 3, 2018
• At Home, Comedy, Music

So, if you are a college a cappella group, you can win Nationals, Worlds, then… get a job? That is the reality for the Bellas, who accomplished those feats...

• March 8, 2018
• At Home, Comedy, Romance

Nick Robinson stars as the titular teenager, who’s ordinary in every way but one (as he reveals in his opening voiceover): he’s gay, but no one knows it. Blessed...

• February 16, 2018
• Animation, At Home, Comedy, Family

Let me start out by saying that I don’t think any film, long or short, has made me laugh harder than Aardman Animation’s Wallace and Gromit in the Wrong...

• February 6, 2018
• At Home, Comedy

In Bad Moms, we met 30-something moms Amy (Mila Kunis), Kiki (Kristen Bell), and Carla (Kathryn Hahn) as they bonded (and drank and partied) over the stress and expectations...

• January 27, 2018
• At Home, Comedy, Fantasy, Science Fiction

Sorry not to garner any more enthusiasm, but, “it’s fine” was my actual response to the film when the credits rolled. Guardians will most likely please fans of the...

• January 27, 2018
• At Home, Comedy

Intended, I guess, to be some kind of R-rated girl-bonding movie that will remind audiences once again that women can behave just as crudely and badly as the fellas,...

• January 27, 2018
• Action, At Home, Comedy, Fantasy

Honestly, I was grinning from start to finish. It’s light-hearted, action-packed, funny, smart and – unlike so many recent films of its ilk – wonderfully human. The characters’ problems...

• January 27, 2018
• At Home, Comedy, Drama

For Billie (Emma Stone), the #1 ranked female tennis player at the time, the struggle is with her sexuality. Married to her strapping husband Larry (Austin Stowell), Billie nonetheless...

• January 5, 2018
• At Home, Comedy, Crime

In the early 90s, I loved watching ice skating. There was Tonya Harding, a “local” girl to us Northwesterners, who seemingly scratched and clawed her way to become one...

• December 21, 2017
• At Home, Comedy

In an alternate present, the world is suffering from overpopulation, impending climate doom, and other man-made disasters including depletion of the earth’s resources. A scientist comes up with a...

• December 16, 2017
• At Home, Comedy, Horror

As someone who kind of loved 80s B-movie gems The Blob, The Stuff, and even lesser fare like Slugs, I approached Attack of the Killer Donuts with an open...