Kathryn Newton

Leslie Mann, Ike Barinholtz, and John Cena in Blockers

Blockers, farcical parents and grounded kids

Blockers is several years old and finally hit the streamers, which means I watched it. This film is low brow comedy, raunchy, with physical gags and ridiculous situations. In other words, it’s funny. It’s about 3 over-protective parents who try […]

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Kathryn Newton in Lisa Frankenstein

Lisa Frankenstein, a bonkers horror comedy

Lisa Frankenstein tells the story of Lisa (Kathryn Newton), a teen girl who falls in love with a reanimated corpse from a neglected graveyard. The name on the grave is Frankenstein. The Creature (Cole Sprouse) from the grave shows up

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Kathryn Newton and Kyle Allen in The Map of Tiny Perfect Things

The Map of Tiny Perfect Things explores perfection, math, and letting go

The Map of Tiny Perfect Things fits in the genre of stories about people who relive the same day over and over. I have no qualms about this plot idea being used elsewhere before. This is a unique treatment and

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Nicole Kidman, Reese Witherspoon, and Shailene Woodley in Big Little Lies

Review: Big Little Lies, season 1

When I read Liane Moriarty’s 2014 novel Big Little Lies I thought it was one of the best-written novels I’d ever read. Since then I’ve read everything I can find by Liane Moriarty. The novel became a TV series, created

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