While Will Smith’s stuck-up arrogant attitude has overshadowed the 2022 Oscars, people need to realize that CODA, which won three awards, and should be an inspiration for people everywhere not just those who are deaf of hard of hearing and a call for change. I was watching Tropic Thunder the other day. This movie cameContinue reading “‘CODA’ Should Be The Beginning, Not The End”
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Technical Foul For ‘Winning Time’
Even before it premiered on HBO, Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakes Dynasty was amidst in controversy as the end of the working collaboration and friendship of show producer Adam McKay and Will Ferrell. The word around Tinseltown was that Ferrell wanted to play the lead role of Dr. Jerry Buss, who became theContinue reading “Technical Foul For ‘Winning Time’”
‘Joe Vs. Carole’ Goes The Distance In Unnecessary Bout
When Tiger King dropped on Netflix two years ago this month when the world was getting its first taste of the Covid-19 pandemic, the documentary series seemed to captivate the country and the world with his crazy insights into the world of exotic animals in cages. Everyone was kinda in agreement that Joe Exotic, orContinue reading “‘Joe Vs. Carole’ Goes The Distance In Unnecessary Bout”
‘The Thing About Pam’ Does Everything Wrong Like The Real-Life Case
The Thing About Pam, just from its first episode, wants to come across as some Fargo meets I Love You To Death story about the real-life murder case surround Pam Hupp in the Midwestern town of Troy, Mo. There’s only one big problem. Two people were killed brutally. And this isn’t a laughing matter. Fargo,Continue reading “‘The Thing About Pam’ Does Everything Wrong Like The Real-Life Case”
‘Pam & Tommy’ An Examination Of Gender Bias And Inequality
There’s a line of dialogue in Hulu’s limited series Pam & Tommy where Pamela Anderson (Lily James) tells her husband, Tommy Lee (Sebastian Stan) about the differences in the reactions to that infamous sex tape. Pam tells him that he will get high-fives and pats on the back from men for the tape, while menContinue reading “‘Pam & Tommy’ An Examination Of Gender Bias And Inequality”
‘The Dropout’ Wants To Sympathize The Devil
I’ll be blunt. The Dropout, the latest limited series romanticizing Millennial con artists and fraudsters, wants to have it both ways. It wants to portray Elizabeth Holmes (Amanda Seyfried), the CEO of the now defunct Theranos, as a woman playing tough in the Boys Club World of Business, but also as a victim. She’s aContinue reading “‘The Dropout’ Wants To Sympathize The Devil”
There Are No Small Roles, Only Small Actors
You may not know the name Ned Eisenberg, but you probably remember his face. He was the textbook actor for “that guy who was in that movie that was out last year.” With a resume as long as the Baja Penisula, Ned Eisenberg who passed away on Feb 27 from cholangiocarcinoma, a cancer of theContinue reading “There Are No Small Roles, Only Small Actors”
‘Super Pumped’ Is ‘The Social Network’ Meets ‘The Wolf Of Wall Street’
Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber might just be the most unnecessary based on a true story limited series/anthology since that whole Feud series that looked into the the lives of Bette Davis and Joan Crawford in their latter years. And by unnecessary, I mean it brings nothing fresh to the table. With the firstContinue reading “‘Super Pumped’ Is ‘The Social Network’ Meets ‘The Wolf Of Wall Street’”
I Watched 10 Hours of ‘Inventing Anna’ So You Don’t Have To
Inventing Anna might have been a good little limited series if it wasn’t so outrageously bloated for about 10 hours of repetition and redundancy. As a matter of fact, I’m not really sure who is the central character of this based on a true story Netflix series. We’re led to believe it’s Anna Sorokin (JuliaContinue reading “I Watched 10 Hours of ‘Inventing Anna’ So You Don’t Have To”
‘Peacemaker’ One Big Middle Finger To MCU
Without a doubt, Peacemaker, which just concluded its first season on HBO, was a shot in the dark concept. James Gunn, who had been tapped by Warner Brothers to direct The Suicide Squad said that he wrote the Peacemaker series while stuck in lockdown from Covid-19 pandemic just to get his mind off things. WarnerContinue reading “‘Peacemaker’ One Big Middle Finger To MCU”
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