Photo courtesy of Fair Use, Wikipedia Netflix’s latest original film “Moxie” was released on March 3. Based on author Jennifer Mathieu’s 2015 book “Moxie: A Novel,” the film is a teen coming of age movie focused on generations of radical feminism. Following 16-year-old Vivian, played by Hadley Robinson, a […]
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Netflix releases low-grade film “I Care a Lot”
Photo courtesy of Fair Use, Wikipedia New Year, new movies on “Netflix,” the same questionable quality of their content and the same mentality of just throwing everything at their audience, hoping that the sheer amount of new content will mask the fact that most of it are of low […]
Cecil Hotel regains interest after new Netflix docu-series
Photo courtesy of Jim Winstead, Flickr Netflix’s newest true crime docuseries is “Crime Scene: Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel,” and it is one of their best yet. The four-episode series follows the disappearance of 21-year-old Elisa Lam in 2013. She was staying at the Cecil Hotel in Los Angeles […]
Bridgerton viewership surpasses Netflix’s “The Witcher”
Photo courtesy of Fair Use, Wikipedia It’s hard to come up with an original idea these days. Decades upon decades of film and a dramatic increase in shows due to streaming services creating their own has led to unavoidable repetition. One feature of this is adapting other media for […]
“Finding ‘Ohana” disappoints viewers of all ages
Photo courtesy of Gpstone1, Wikipedia Netflix continues its avalanche of new movie releases in 2021, as if trying to offset the horrible aftertaste left over from the year of 2020. One of those new releases is a slightly awkward family movie, “Finding ‘Ohana.” Written by Christina Strain, who is also […]
New “Big Mouth” season covers more serious and taboo topics
Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons After its initial success in September 2017, Netflix original animated series “Big Mouth” returned for its well anticipated fourth season on Dec. 4, 2020. Created by Nick Kroll, Jennifer Flackett, Andrew Goldberg and Mark Levin, the show focuses on pre-teens going through puberty. This […]
Netflix’s “Grand Army” depicts controversial coming-of-age experiences
Photo courtesy of Fair Use, Wikipedia Netflix is commonly known for pumping out coming-of-age stories that can sometimes be unrelatable and unrealistic. They often barely scrape the surface of what it means to be a teenager in high school in the modern century. However, “Grand Army” gets it right. […]
“First Kill” takes a queer spin on vampire romance
Photo courtesy of Dominick D, Flickr We’ve all had our fair share of vampire stories in our lives. The format always has a way of drawing in people with the promise of displaying something that appears human on the surface, but in reality, it is something darker and otherworldly. […]
Netflix’s “Rebecca” disappoints original book and film
Photo courtesy of Eva Rinaldi, Wikipedia One of Netflix’s newest breakout movies is “Rebecca.” The plot details a spur-of-the-moment romance based in Monte Carlo between a wealthy and handsome widower named Maxim de Winter (Armie Hammer) and a poor younger woman (Lily James). The couple marries and moves to […]
Ariana Grande announces album release and new acting role
Photo courtesy of Lindsay Neilson, Flickr Even after releasing her latest three albums “Sweetener,” “thank u, next” and “k bye for now (swt live)” as well as chart-topping singles such as “boyfriend,” “Stuck with U” and “Rain on Me” all in a two year timeframe, Ariana Grande still has […]