• January 14, 2020
• At Home, Drama, Television

Big Little Lies Season 2 transports us back to Monterey, CA with its dreamy, languid theme song and stunning ocean views. The new school year marks a new beginning,...

• July 12, 2016
• Action, At Home, Science Fiction

As the third installment in the Divergent series opens, you’d think we stumbled across a Trump rally. Now that wicked leader Jeanine is dead (oh, how I miss you,...

• March 17, 2015
• Action, At Home, Science Fiction

You know that a tough young woman means business when she chops off her long, flowing hair with a pair of dull scissors. Of course, when it happens in...

• October 13, 2014
• At Home, Drama, Romance

For anyone who hasn’t yet been caught up in the zeitgeist, TFiOS is based on John Green’s bestselling young-adult novel of the same name, and centers on the relationship...

• August 6, 2014
• Action, At Home, Science Fiction

Setting: Dystopian Chicago—the buildings are decrepit, the water of the lake and the Chicago River seems to have retreated, and there is a tall electric wall built around the...

• March 6, 2014
• At Home, Comedy, Drama, Family, Television

By now, most of us are well-versed in the premise of the ABC Family drama, The Secret Life of the American Teenager.  Regardless of whether you’ve actually seen the...

• January 14, 2014
• At Home, Drama

Sutter, the central character in The Spectacular Now, is like John Cusack’s Lloyd Dobler from Say Anything. He’s charming and cute in kind of a boy-next-door way. He is...