Tag: Hulu
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Review: Deep Water and Human Resources
There is nothing erotic or thrilling about Ben Affleck and Ana De Armas’ Deep Water. Meanwhile Human Resources is indeed Big Mouth meets The Office and it works! Listen on Apple Podcasts More about Deep Water: Based on the celebrated novel by famed mystery writer Patricia Highsmith (The Talented Mr. Ripley), “Deep Water” takes us…
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Review: Turning Red, The Adam Project, and Fresh
Pixar’s latest film Turning Red is a spectacularly specific delight about young adulthood. However The Adam Project from Ryan Reynolds seems unsure if it wants to grow up, and Fresh explores the horrors of modern dating for women. Listen on Apple Podcasts More about Turning Red: Young actress Rosalie Chiang lends her voice to Mei…
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Review: Moonfall, Book of Love, and Pam & Tommy
We know Roland Emmerich’s Moonfall is going to be bad, but is it GOOD bad or BAD bad? Same goes for the cookie cutter story Book of Love. Finally Pam & Tommy is here and we have complicated feelings on it. Listen on Apple Podcasts. More about Moonfall: In Moonfall, a mysterious force knocks the…
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Review: Vacation Friends and The Chair
This week features two streaming options full of bumbling awkward (and sometimes stupid) scenarios with Vacation Friends on Hulu and The Chair on Netflix. More about Vacation Friends: In this raw and raunchy comedy, straight-laced Marcus and Emily are befriended by wild, thrill-seeking partiers Ron and Kyla at a resort in Mexico. Living in the…
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Review: Happiest Season, We Are the Champions, The Croods: A New Age, Uncle Frank , Superintelligence, and Hillbilly Elegy
A holiday weekend in the US brings a smorgasbord of viewing offerings but like with any feast some are delicious and some will leave you with indigestion. Happiest Season, We Are the Champions, The Croods: A New Age, Uncle Frank, Superintelligence, and Hillbilly Elegy are all up for review – but which will fill your…
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Review: First Cow, Palm Springs, and Mucho Mucho Amor
We finally have some highlights this summer with First Cow, Palm Springs, and Mucho Mucho Amor: The Legend of Walter Mercado! First Cow is a striking moment in time in the nineteenth century. Yes there is also actually a cow. Just watch it. Kelly Reichardt directs, John Magaro, Orion Lee, Ewen Bremner, Rene…
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Review: The High Note, The Vast of Night, and The Great
Streaming reviews this week with “The High Note” “The Vast of Night” and “The Great.” While “The High Note” is a little more middling than a high, it is still a safe feel good movie (that I wish focused more on the career dilemmas it tackled than romance). Tracee Ellis Ross, Dakota Johnson, Ice…
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Review: Capone, Upload, and Solar Opposites
Up for review this week are: an incoherent “Capone” biopic, a timely digital concept with “Upload”, and hilariously vulgar aliens in “Solar Opposites.” “Capone” squanders the talents of Tom Hardy with a biopic as incoherent as the subject at the end of his life. Linda Cardellini, Matt Dillon, Noel Fisher, Kyle McLachlan, and Jack Lowden…
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Review: Big Time Adolescence and Swallow
This week brings two movies you can stream from the comfort of your home, “Big Time Adolescence” and “Swallow.” “Big Time Adolescence” features Pete Davidson as … well I assume Pete Davidson. It follows his character’s friendship with a high schooler. As far as watches from home it could be a welcome distraction. Griffin Gluck,…