Binge or Purge?: Tuca & Bertie. This twitchy millennial sitcom struggles to land its ideas due to its manic style. Lisa Hanawalt’s new animated creation, Tuca & Bertie, landed on Netflix with much fanfare. Many …
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Coming Soon Trailers: Detective Pikachu, The Hustle. A busy week at the box office pairs with a slow week on the streaming market. This week we flip the usual formula: a few big movies at …
Coming Soon Trailers: UglyDolls, Long Shot, The Intruder. Hollywood hopes to counter-program with an animated kids movie, a rom com and a thriller this weekend. While Endgame will undoubtedly repeat as the number one film …
Coming Soon Trailers: The Curse of La Llorona. We get another spin-off from the Conjuring franchise in wide release, as well as two Wednesday early premiers. The final weekend before Avengers has everyone scrambling to …
What’s New on Netflix: April 2019. You’d be a fool to miss all of the new stuff hitting Netflix’s streaming library in April! Netflix’s offerings look a bit more traditional this week. April 1st has …
VOD Review: The Burial of Kojo. The directorial debut of Blitz the Ambassador is evocative and beautiful, but narratively frustrating. New on Netflix, The Burial of Kojo is a film which plays by its own …
Coming Soon Trailers: Dumbo, The Beach Bum. Disney releases the first of three (!) live action remakes slated for 2019, so grab your magic feather. It begins. The flood gate of Disney remakes is officially …
Binge or Purge?: Love, Death + Robots. Netflix‘s new anthology of science fiction shorts flexes its visual muscles but often lacks the storytelling skeleton for a heavy lift. Love, Death + Robots is the latest …
Coming Soon Trailers: Captive State, Wonder Park. Three new wide release films look to find their niche in the Captain Marvel ecosystem. While it is highly likely that Marvel’s latest blockbuster will retain the first …
Binge or Purge?: The Umbrella Academy. Netflix’s misfit super hero team is stylish but lacking in substance, relying on riddle boxes to overcome poor characterization. I really wanted to like The Umbrella Academy. Jeremy Slater’s …
Binge or Purge?: Carmen Sandiego. The globe-trotting jewel thief Carmen Sandiego gets a fascinating reinvention on Netflix. Netflix has been pilfering treasures from my childhood lately, so it only makes sense they would eventually …
VOD Review: Polar. Mads Mikkelsen is wasted in a fatuous assassin flick based on much worthier source material. That makes me Mads! Where to begin with the train wreck that is Polar? Polar adapts a …