Housekeeping for Beginners
North Macedonia’s submission to the 2024 “Best International Feature Film” category, “Housekeeping for Beginners” (2023), focuses on how one person’s...
Recent Reviews
Easter Bloody Easter
“Easter Bloody Easter” (2024) is a budget horror film with Diane Foster pulling double duty directing her first feature film...
Paradise
“Paradise” (2024) is Cambridge native, director and cowriter Max Isaacson’s feature debut about Ella Patchet (Patricia Allison), a young person...
Imaginary
In “Imaginary” (2023), Jessica (DeWanda Wise), an author and illustrator of children’s books, her husband, Burning Cats guitarist Max (Tom...
Yolo
“Yolo” (2024), also known as “A Hot Spicy Boiling Burning [Life],” is a Chinese adaptation of a Japanese film called...
The American Society of Magical Negroes
“The American Society of Magical Negroes” (2024) follows Aren Mdonbo (Justice Smith), an artist who gets recruited to join the...
Shayda
“Shayda” (2023) was Australia’s submission to the 2024 Oscars’ “Best International Feature Film” category. Executive producer Cate Blanchett would not...
One Life
“One Life” (2023) follows the life of Sir. Nicholas ‘Nicky’ Winton, a London stockbroker who is notable for rescuing 669...
Love Lies Bleeding
“Love Lies Bleeding” (2024) is set in November 1989 in a sordid, decaying small town in New Mexico that borders...
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Series
Goblin
“Guardian: The Lonely and Great God” (2016-2017) or “Goblin,” which is Dokkaebi in Korean, is a South Korean television series,...
UnReal
“UnReal” is a four season, thirty-eight-episode, series that focuses on Rachel (Shiri Appleby), a producer on Everlasting, a dating reality...
Documentary Now!
“Documentary Now!” is an anthology series in the vein of PBS’ “Independent Lens.” Clad in red, Helen Mirren hosts by...
What If…?
“What If…?” (2021) is Marvel’s foray into exploring established Marvel characters in different multiverses. The animated series consists of nine...
Loki
“Loki” (2021) resumes where “Avengers: Endgame” (2019) to reveal what happened to 2012 version of Loki (Tom Hiddleston) after he...
The Falcon and The Winter Soldier
“The Falcon and The Winter Soldier” (2021) starts where “Avengers: Endgame” (2019) ends with Sam (Anthony Mackie), aka Falcon, trying...
WandaVision
“WandaVision” (2021) is the first Disney+ Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) (mini) series. Three weeks after “Avengers: Endgame” (2019), Wanda Maximoff...
Kingdom: Ashin of the North
“Kingdom: Ashin of the North” (2021) is a prequel to “Kingdom,” a two season South Korean television series about how...
Books
The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning
Margareta Magnusson’s first book in a two-book series, “The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning: How to Free Yourself and...
How to Keep House While Drowning: 31 Days of Compassionate Help
I heard about KC Davis’ book, “How to Keep House While Drowning: 31 Days of Compassionate Help,” when I was...
Dear Girls
Dear Girls is an intimate, irreverent, bawdy memoir disguised as a letter to her daughters. It is thematically arranged and...
The Meaning of Mariah Carey
While I would issue a trigger warning because The Meaning of Mariah Carey deals with psychological abuse, sexual violence and...
Sissy: A Coming-of-Gender Story
Sissy: A Coming-of-Gender Story seamlessly mixes memoir with instruction without being pedantic.
Alone on the Wall
Alone on the Wall was a decent, deeper introspective look at Honnold’s life that satisfied my curiosity after seeing Free...
The Truths We Hold: An American Journey
Her voice comes alive in The Truths We Hold: An American Journey when she recounts sticking it to an opponent...
Smart on Crime: A Career Prosecutor’s Plan to Make Us Safer
If I read Sarah Palin’s book (it was a tongue-in-cheek gift), and it is more engrossing than Smart on Crime:...
The Cutting Edge
The Cutting Edge: Project Screenway
The Cutting Edge is devoted to short films from local filmmakers. Don’t dismiss short films. Shorts lay future features’ foundations....
The Cutting Edge: Sights Unseen
The Cutting Edge is devoted to local filmmakers’ short films. Don’t dismiss short films. Shorts lay future features’ foundation. On...