Música takes a musical trip into the mind of Rudy Mancuso. He plays himself in this movie, which he wrote and directed. Mancuso has a big following for his YouTube music, videos, and Awkward Puppets. This movie is a culmination […]
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Wedding Season is the typical rom-com plot where the parents want the kids to get married, but they aren’t dating anyone. So a couple team up to fake date their way through all the weddings they must attend to keep
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The Edge of Seventeen is a few years old. I missed it the first time around. It’s back in the rotation on Netflix and Tubi, so I took a look. Hailee Steinfeld and Haley Lu Richardson are the stars of
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The Girls in the Band was the first film I picked to watch on a new site I just learned about. I’ll get to the film in a bit, but first I want to mention Herflix. The site is full
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The Taste of Things (La passion de Dodin Bouffant) is the kind of film that makes a food lover’s mouth water. The food and the preparation of the food is everything in this film by Anh Hung Tran. The cook
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Madame Web is a Marvel origin story. It was trashed horribly when it came out in theaters. In my experience any Marvel film with a woman in the lead gets trashed horribly before it’s released by the Marvel bros who
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Eileen is a disconcerting psychological drama featuring stellar performances from Anne Hathaway and Thomasin McKenzie. These are dark characters who exist in a dreary world. Their story is not a happy one and the ending is inconclusive.
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The American Society of Magical Negroes is a satire meant to demonstrate how ridiculous white people are about race. It was trying to do something comparable to Dear White People, but it didn’t quite work. Maybe that comparison is unfair
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Love, Divided (Pared con pared) is a Spanish rom-com about two feuding neighbors who fall in love through a wall. It’s a remake of the French version of the story, called Blind Date. I remember seeing Blind Date a few
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The Idea of You is absolutely a rom-com. Yet it manages to feel more substantive than the usual fluffy romance we are flooded with of late. Maybe it felt more grounded to me because the plot is about a woman
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