Promising Young Woman (2020)
“You know, they put themselves in danger… girls like that.” Somewhat flawed in its messaging yet more tantalizing than just about any film to be born from the laborious 2020, Promising […]
Category Archives: Comedy
Love Actually (2003)
“Love is everywhere.” I find it nearly to impossible to not swoon over the sentimental beginning of Love Actually. Released at the start of 2003’s cozy holiday season, the film […]
Uncle Frank (2020)
“You gonna be the person you decide to be, or are you gonna be the person everyone else tells you you are?” He sits in the corner reading and thinking. […]
Home Alone 2: Lost in New York
“Last time we all tried to take a trip, we had a problem just like this.” It’s pretty shocking that Home Alone 2: Lost in New York holds up as well […]
The Christmas Chronicles 2 (2020)
“Was it as good as last time?” Everything that mildly worked with 2018’s The Christmas Chronicles – the joy, the vast wonder, the childlike sense of belief – has been sucked […]
Happiest Season (2020)
“I’m just not a huge Christmas person.” Cute and passionate and progressive. Dramatic and perceptive and just a wee bit political. Happiest Season packs in all of the standard holiday […]
Freaky (2020)
“They traded places.” We’ve all seen high school slashers and we’ve all seen body swap comedies, but never before have I personally seen the two fused together at the hip […]
Over the Moon (2020)
“It’s not a silly myth. It’s real.” Gorgeously animated, ornately representative of Asian culture, and at times frustratingly too familiar, Over the Moon is a loving and lavish space endeavor […]
Holidate (2020)
“It’s not meaningless.” Raucous, raunchy, and better than expected, Holidate is a rom-com that addresses the clichés of its formula and lives by them with a more mature twist. This wouldn’t […]
Hubie Halloween (2020)
“Halloween’s upon us.” For his entire life, Hubie DuBois (Adam Sandler) has been the laughing stock of his beloved Salem, Massachusetts. He’s a bit dim-witted, affable, too kind and too […]
