The Review: Black Adam

Black Adam 3/10

So I finally got around to watching the Black Adam movie. I don't have all that much to say about it because I didn't hate it but I can't say that I enjoyed it. It starts off with a backstory that turns out to sort of not be his own and then we're introduced to a bunch of brand new characters who aren't all that interesting. We have Hawkman who is supposed to be really good friends with Dr Fate because they told me so and when one of them dies it's supposed to be emotional but I felt absolutely nothing. There's also a dude that grows really tall who isn't interesting at all and the girl who can make wind. None of these people can beat Black Adam and it's kind of pathetic. All of the human characters are unrelatable and uninteresting and of course they have a young child that provides pure annoyance. The only thing I can truly say I liked about this movie was the portrayal of Black Adam. He looked just like the character and was cool himself but just surrounded by a lot of people that I did not care about whatsoever. The pacing of this film was all over the place. There would be a crazy action scene and then it would just slam on the brakes for uninteresting exposition. After I was done watching I looked up who wrote and directed this movie and that answered any question I had as to why I did not like this. I would like to see this character again but in a movie with an interesting villain and a far better story.

Dwayne Johnson as Teth-Adam/Black Adam

Aldis Hodge as Carter Hall/Hawkman

Sarah Shahi as Adrianna Tomaz

Marwan Kenzari as Ishmael Gregor

Quintessa Swindell as Maxine Hunkel/Cyclone

Bodhi Sabongui as Amon Tomaz

Pierce Brosnan as Kent Nelson/Doctor Fate

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The Review: American Horror Story NYC

American Horror Story NYC 9/10

This crazy ass season had everything. A psychotic leather man, dying deer, an epidemic, drug use, rough sex, and torture thrown in just a spice things up. This last season of American Horror Story: NYC seems to have some people upset and other people very happy with how the season turned out. I'm one of the people that's very happy with this season because the last few seasons have built up these huge hopes and then the payoff has been trash. I was hoping that this season wouldn't be too crammed with too much information and killers because at a certain point it seemed like the show was beginning to lose its way. Thankfully even after the death of one of the killers the show stayed interesting and I was excited to watch it every single week. L. had already started the season and I jumped in and when she would finish an episode I try to quickly watch it to catch up. This season benefited from having a lot of interesting characters and not one or two that I gave a damn about. This is going to be full of spoilers so be warned and you shouldn't be looking up stuff on the internet about shows you haven't watched yet anyway.

The Review: A New Orleans Noel

 

A New Orleans Noel 1/10

L. and I watched this dry ass movie called A New Orleans Noel. This was a Hallmark or maybe a Lifetime movie about this woman who goes to New Orleans to help decorate a famous praline chefs home. She didn't know it but a guy that she knew back in college that she liked but seems like she hates name Anthony is also tasked with designing the home because its his grandmothers. Of course they do not agree with each other's ideas and everyone in the family wants them to get together even though they haven't seen each other since college and she just needles him at every opportunity she gets. I straight up found her annoying. Anthony reveals that he likes Grace for god knows what reason because it can't be the outfits that she was wearing and is not sure how to tell her. Grace doesn't seem to know how to slow down or settle down after her parents died and doesn't want to get attached to anyone. The family tries to welcome her in and she leaves during prayer like a rude son of a bitch. I really did not enjoy this movie and gave it a 1/ 10 because we actually finished it. I know that the two main stars of this are married in real life so it's very strange that they seem to be no chemistry between the two of them in this film. And of course it ends with her giving up her career that would force her to live somewhere else so she can stay with this dude that she hasn't seen in years. All of these movies end this way. A successful woman will easily drop her entire life if you got a nice fade and you're kind of cute.

Keshia Knight Pulliam as Grace Hill

Brad James as Anthony Brown

Patti LaBelle as Loretta Brown

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The Review: The Man Who Came To Dinner

The Man Who Came to Dinner 8/10

A few weeks ago L. and I watched this movie called The Man Who Came To Dinner. It was made in 1942 and in all honesty I fell asleep when we first started watching it because it was late as hell. We ended up finishing it the next day and I laughed way too much at this movie. This movie is about this jerk named Whiteside who is a radio personality who ends up breaking his hip when he falls down on the steps of this rich house. He pretty much forces them to let him stay there while he recuperates in his wheelchair and the whole time he is getting weird objects sent to the house from rich and famous people. I'm talking about penguins, octopus, and even an Egyptian sarcophagus. So while he's there his assistant Maggie is also there and she ends up falling for this dude who works at the newspaper named Bert. Bert is working on a play and he really wants Whiteside to read it but Whiteside doesn't want him dating his assistant because then she'll go away. Whiteside ends up scheming with this actress that he knows to take Bert away from his assistant so that she can't quit.

The Review: Christmas In Connecticut

Christmas In Connecticut 8/10

This past weekend L. and I watched this film called Christmas In Connecticut. From the way this started I could not tell where this movie was going and it did not go anywhere that I thought it would. It starts off with these two sailors stuck in the middle of the ocean on a life raft for almost three weeks. They get saved and one of them named Jefferson ends up becoming obsessed with wanting a really good meal made by this lady named Elizabeth Lane. She writes articles for a magazine where it's pretty much like what Martha Stewart does but not for real. So while Jefferson is in the hospital with his friend who gets to eat whatever he wants he's straight up drinking a bowl of milk with an egg yolk floating in it. Was this a real thing? Did people actually do this to one another back in the day?

The Review: A Family Christmas Gift/The Christmas Clapback

A Family Christmas Gift 6/10

This past weekend L. and I watch some holiday movies. Four of them to be exact. The first one we watched was called A Family Christmas Gift. This was a Hallmark movie so there was not all of the drama that I was expecting from a typical Christmas movie involving black people. This is not a Thanksgiving With The Carter 2 situation where you get lost in the woods and attacked by a bear or what appears to be a man and a very cheap bear costume with the help of marijuana and two black people named Ashford and Simpson. I'm not going to get into that right now.

The Review: Interview With The Vampire

Interview With The Vampire 10/10

I have to admit that when I first heard from L. that Interview with the Vampire was going to be a new series with a Black man playing Louis I was very hesitant to even try watching it. By the end of the first episode I was addicted to this show. Just like with Wonder Years reboot showing that time period through the eyes of a Black child this series having it set in the time period that it's set in and it being in New Orleans it changed so much about the story that they could not have had a white actor the way they had with Brad Pitt in the film. Looking back at recaps of the season there's so much stuff that happened but it did not feel rushed.

The Review: Don't Worry Darling

Don't Worry Darling 8/10

Last week L. and I watched this movie called Don't Worry Darling. I had seen a trailer for this movie and could not tell what the hell it was about but it seemed interesting and I like the directors previous movie Booksmart. So we started watching this movie and it takes place in the 1950s where all the husbands go off to work at this place called Victory while the women stay at home cook, clean, relax, and bring their husbands a nice warm dinner when they get home. One of the housewives seems out of it and kind of strange and the other women stay away from her. Her name is Margaret and she's played by an actress I've seen in other films and did not realize it was her because she looks different in everything that she does.

The Review: A Wesley Christmas

A Wesley Christmas 0/10

The second movie L. and I watched was called A Wesley Christmas. By the way both of these were on BET+ that she accidentally still had for months ago after we watched Jason's Lyric. This is one of those basic movies where all the children come together for the holidays and even though the parents seem nice normal and polite the children all seem to be trash in different ways. One of the kids is the daughter and she can't be tied down in any relationship and is juggling two different men. The two sons work at a company together and one of the sons is married has two twin daughters who look 29 years old each and a wife who is either pregnant or has cancer. The other son who I remember as Todd because I kept calling him fake Chris Brown appears to be the fuck up of the family. He lost the company $500,000 and the older brother is not happy about it but the rest of the family seems to be like “Well you know that's Todd.” And there's also a hot auntie who seems to always be drinking and is the only part of this movie that is enjoyable.

The Review: The First Noelle

 

The First Noelle 1/10

So over the weekend L. and I ended up watching two holiday movies. The first one was called The First Noelle and it was not good. Instead of giving this a 0 I gave it a 1 because I actually finished this hot trash. I don't know what people saw online but a lot of people were praising this film and I cannot understand why. The movie starts off with Noelle and her friend Terrence who have known each other for 20 years breaking up because he's moving to London for a new job. The movie fast forwards a year later and she's working at a publishing company and he decides to come back and visit. Noelle obviously still has feelings for him but doesn't say anything and she lets her sister who we both thought was her mother know. Her sister mother tells her to try and get back with him even after Noelle discovers that he is now dating a new girl named Noelle as well.

The Review: Killing Eve

Killing Eve 3/10

I first got into Killing Eve after watching a couple episodes at my friends aunts place. I started watching it from the start and was really digging this show. Then it just kept going...and going...and going. By the time the third season was wrapping up I felt like they were just making episodes to give the cast something to do. Also, the main character began to feel like too much of an asshole for me to enjoy watching. The fourth season debuted and I couldn't even finish the first episode so I read what happened and was glad that I saved those hours and watched Justified instead. Each season got progressively less entertaining and as if it were just spinning its wheels. I should probably describe the show a little bit. Eve is a detective that has an obsession with lady serial killers. She ends up fired and is now part of a secret team hunting who she calls Villanelle. They meet, fight, love one another, husbands are left, people are killed, plans are foiled...whatever. It is very lather, rinse, repeat and I was over it. This was a cat and mouse game where both people were cats. Sucks because this could have ended in two seasons and been fine.

Sandra Oh as Eve Polastri

Jodie Comer as Oksana Astankova/Villanelle

Fiona Shaw as Carolyn Martens

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The Review: P-Valley (Season 1 and 2)

 

P Valley 9/10

Now I know I am super late with writing this review but the show called P Valley needs to be talked about. This might be a little bit confusing since I watched season two and then went back and watch season one. I think what I'm going to try to do is talk about how the characters change between both seasons and of course whether I like these people or not. Now at first I had zero interest in watching this show. I've never been to a strip club, I've never wanted to go to a strip club, have zero interest in going to a strip club because I compare it to going to a buffet and watching other people eat. But this show is about more than just a strip club somehow. I know if you look at any photos from it or ads or anything it looks like the show is nothing but strippers dancing but it really is about more than that. I should also point out that the second season took place during the pandemic (we still in one though!) and the show portrayed it perfectly.

Documentality: Killer Sally

 

Killer Sally 8/10

This past weekend Cam and I watched this crazy ass documentary on Netflix called Killer Sally. It was about a former bodybuilder who had murdered her husband Ray McNeil who was a former Mr. Olympia competitor. They have interviews with her as she's in prison so you know that she ended up getting locked up for his murder and they have interviews with her two children that she had from a previous marriage. As the story continues you see that she had a terrible upbringing. The husband she murdered had a terrible upbringing and by proxy her children also had a terrible upbringing. Now Sally she was in the Marine Corps as well as the husband that she ended up murdering. As they did different bodybuilding competitions and everything after leaving service she started doing these videos where men would wrestle women in apartments, specifically buff ass women. She would get about $300 an hour wrestling these men and made enough money to support the family just barely and her husband wasn't even working. He would just be competing in these different competitions and sometimes winning most of the times losing or placing very far behind and then being a cheating and abusive asshole on top of it.

The Review: The Mighty Quinn

The Mighty Quinn 3/10

This movie didn't make a lick of sense. L. had me watch The Mighty Quinn last weekend and all I knew was that Denzel had a Jamaican accent. And by an accent I mean his sounds worse than mine. It just comes and goes throughout the movie. He plays a chief of police named Xavier Quinn. No one listens to or respects him. He shows up and stops a stabbing at a wedding and gives the guy his knife back. There has been a murder and they are trying to pin it on his childhood friend, Maubee. Oh, Maubee. The clothes. The hair! Oh, my god, the hair.

The Review: Spiral

Spiral 7/10

Spiral was actually good. I gave up on Saw films a while back because they started getting brutal for nothing and the traps were set up so there was no way to actually survive. This is a Saw based film but no Billy the Puppet showing up. This detective named Bozwick chases this guy down into the subway and ends up caught in a f-ed up trap where he has to cut his tongue off the survive. He don't. This is not that kinda movie. If someone is in a trap if they don't immediately make the decision to maim themselves they're gonna die. His former partner Zeke Banks tries to track down who is now murdering multiple cops before it gets even worse. What sucks is that his department is dirty as hell and he can't trust anyone. Hell, it turns out his father is one of the main dirty ones. Zeke gets a new guy that works with him and he ends up getting killed. Or does he? This was a jacked up ass movie but the kills were not as gory as previous films. Just really jacked up. This movie showed that you could make Saw spinoffs and they would be cool. I'd like to see a few seasons of shows just like this movie.

Chris Rock as Detective Zeke Banks

Max Minghella as Detective William Schenk/Emmerson

Leonidas Castrounis as Young William

Samuel L. Jackson as Marcus Banks

Marisol Nichols as Captain Angie Garza

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The Review: Thor Love And Thunder

 

Thor Love And Thunder 9/10

This was a funny ass movie! I watched this over a month ago with L. after not seeing it in theaters. The basic story is that Thor is lacking confidence and direction in his life while traveling with the Guardians Of The Galaxy. He heads back in time to have to deal with this guy named Goor the God Butcher. He wasn't always this way. He had a god he believed in and after his daughter died and he met his god he found out that there was no paradise or rewards for his worship. Using a magic sword he kills the god and decides to kill all of them. Meanwhile Jane is dealing with cancer. She goes to New Asgard and using the shattered Mjolnir she becomes a new Thor. Its fucking awesome. This was another fun ass Thor movie that had me laughing while also some touching moments dealing with the fact that Thor and Jane still loved one another and reconciling with her impending death. Yeah, this is short because the movie ain't as fresh in my head but I really loved this movie.

Chris Hemsworth as Thor

Christian Bale as Gorr the God Butcher

Tessa Thompson as Valkyrie

Taika Waititi as Korg

Russell Crowe as Zeus

Natalie Portman as Jane Foster/Mighty Thor

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Curtain Call: Oklahoma!

Oklahoma! DNF/10

Full disclosure: me and Cam left during intermission. She had tickets to the play Oklahoma and I didn't know anything about the story. She did. We got there early and chowed down on some good Lemonade and headed over. Had great seats in the balcony pretty much dead center as you can see from the photos. I will point out some good about the show. The seats were comfy. The lady singers were incredible and too good to be in this. Also the unintentional humor that was riddled throughout this uneven show. There were parts where the audience didn't know if they were supposed to laugh, clap, or whatever. I was one of them. So after some weird ass experimental footage was shown on a large screen and the lights came up Cam started laughing. Not a “this is fun!” laugh, but a “What the fuck am I watching?!” laugh. I asked if she wanted to leave, she didn't want me to leave if I wanted to see the rest of the show. I said I was totally cool with bouncing so we did and headed to Jack In The Box.

Curtain Call: Cats

Cats 7/10

This past Saturday Cam took me to see Cats at the Pantages Theater. We had seen it there before back in 2019 and I remember seeing the commercials for it back in the 80's on TV and all I knew that someone flew away on a giant hubcap. I was wrong. It was not a hubcap. We got there early and wolfed down some Vito's pizza outside and took our amazing seats. I have never had seats that close at this theater and it helps because I tend to be in the balcony and this theater is known for having terrible sound. So we sat behind this weird old white dude that wanted to talk to everyone (I ignored him because he didn't have a mask and I don't talk unless I wanna) and this older Black couple where the husband kept taking his mask off and on and moving weirdly to the music. Otherwise the audience was pretty okay. And, and the wife of the mask man trying to film the last act, being told to stop, trying one more time, and being told to stop again. People are trash.

The Review: The Outfit

The Outfit 9/10

Hey, this was a real movie! I use that description rarely. But this was something I would've watched in a theater. I didn't even know it existed. Miss Jackie's mama suggested it to me and I checked it out and thoroughly enjoyed it. This cutter (not a tailor!) named Leonard Burling is enjoying a nice, quiet existence making suits. Most of his clients are with the mob but so what? His receptionist Mable starts dating the son of a mob boss who later shows up shot and Leonard is forced at gunpoint to sew him up to stop the bleeding. This leads to the talk of a rat and a tape that was taken from the FBI. This is where my detective skills shine like a turd in the dark because I was accusing everyone left and right of being the rat. This movie had me guessing until the very last scene. This movie was on some The Usual Suspects/Knives Out type shit. It is on Amazon and everyone should be watching this and wanting more movies like this. Small setting, great acting, the look of the movie, the sound was good (didn't have to keep adjusting the volume like a Netflix movie). Damn thing had me applauding by myself in my apartment.

Mark Rylance as Leonard Burling

Johnny Flynn as Francis

Zoey Deutch as Mable Shaun

Dylan O'Brien as Richie Boyle

Simon Russell Beale as Roy Boyle

Nikki Amuka-Bird as Violet LaFontaine

Alan Mehdizadeh as Monk

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The Review: Ricochet

Ricochet 7/10

This was some perfect 90's cheese. I had heard of Ricochet and knew Denzel was in it but that was all. Next thing you know the credits start rolling and all the greats were here! This is about a cop/law student named Nick Styles who before he got started was a flirt and played basketball with a thug named Odessa. He later becomes a cop and while at a carnival he and his partner stumble on a shooting by a dude named Earl Talbot Blake. This dude is nuts as hell! He takes a woman hostage and strips down to his draws (which pleased my lady to no end) and shoots Blake and saves the day. By the way, that hostage deserved it. She came skipping out the port-a-potty like there weren't two men with guns out. So while Style's life skyrockets after the arrest Blake plots to get revenge from prison.

The Review: A Jazzman's Blues

 

A Jazzman's Blues 2/10

This movie was ass. L. wanted to check out this Tyler Perry movie called A Jazzman's Blues on Netflix so we did. This movie was long and full of people making dumb decisions to keep the story moving. It is about a dude named Bayou who falls in love with this girl named Leanne aka Bucket. They explain why she was called Bucket and it is so stupid that nickname would have never stuck. Bayou's no father hates him. His brother hates him. Everyone makes fun of him except for his mother who baby's him. This story is told through letters that Bayou wrote to Leanne in the late 30's to early 40's after they were given to this racist dude in the 80's. Yeah.

The Review: The 355

The 355 (1/10)

I almost didn't even write a review for this because I did not care for it. I also don't want to be accused of hating women since at this point if you say you don't like something that is female led it means you hate them. It isn't the fact that the action was shot terrible, the story was weak as hell and incredibly predictable, or that the actresses you see in this have been in far better films. That couldn't be it. I looked up the director after watching this and slapped myself for even watching this. I was familiar with his name as a producer and writer but when he got to do all three...yeesh. What is this about? Different government spies trying to out think one another for a device that can control technology until they start to work together but only the women because the men are all dumb, violent, or dumb and violent. I wish this was good and it didn't get a 0/10 because I finished it while ironing my clothes.

Jessica Chastain as Mason "Mace" Browne

Penélope Cruz as Graciela Rivera

Fan Bingbing as Lin Mi Sheng

Diane Kruger as Marie Schmidt

Lupita Nyong'o as Khadijah Adiyeme

Édgar Ramírez as Luis Rojas

Sebastian Stan as Nick Fowler

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The Review: RRR

RRR 9/10

Some movies are just way more fun than they need to be. I had seen a scene from this movie and wanted to check it out. I didn't know what it was about or that it was three hours long. Within the first few minutes a woman was smacked in the head with a log and a child was kidnapped after singing a nice song. The hell is happening?! This is the story of two men with very different ways of achieving the same goal. One dude is trying to get his sister back and another is trying to arm his people by joining with the enemy. That is actually pretty much the gist of this.

Casting Slouch: Who Should Be The Black Panther

Oh, lord. This is way harder than I thought it'd be. I like recasting or making casting wish lists and since there has been this thing online with folks wanting T'Challa recast after the fucked up death of Chadwick Boseman who portrayed Black Panther. Now, I don't wanna recast the character of T'Challa. I want a damn Black Panther though because even though in hindsight that movie wasn't as good as I thought at the time (seriously, that last fight scene looked like something out of PS1). I liked that Black kids had a character that wasn't lightning based or Blade. Nothing against Blade, but, come on. So after weeks of randomly coming back to this and looking up lists of Black actors that I think could play the part I was only able to come up with two people. That's fucking sad.

the Review: Prey

Prey 9/10

I really liked this movie! I finally got a chance to watch Prey on Hulu last night and within twenty minutes realized that this was better than any Predator based movie after the second one. This is about a Comanche girl named Naru that wants to hunt but is being trained to be a healer for her people. Her brother Taabe is the best hunter around and wants her to chill out. One day she and her dog, Sarii, see some lightning in the sky. She lets people know and they kinda ignore her. Her brother brings her along to hunt a lion that attacked someone and the other guys just play along with her. Naru finds a skinned and de-spined snake and sets up a trap for the lion. The lion comes up while in a tree face to face with it they both fall to the ground and she wakes back home. Her brother brought her back and eventually kills the lion.

The Review: The Gray Man

The Gray Man 7/10

This was a cool movie but I'm not gonna be too descriptive because really there is no need. This dude is locked up in jail in the early 2000's for killing his father because his father was a monster and attacking him and his brother all the time. This CIA dude shows up like “Hey. You did the right thing. Join me. Kill bad people.” Dude, is like, “bet”, and he now works as a killer named Sierra Six. One mission in Bankgkok he is supposed to take this dude out but won't because a kid is close by and something seems off. Also his new boss Carmichael is a total dick. He chases the dude down and its another Sierra team member who knows there is some dirty nonsense going on. He dies and leaves Six with information to bring Carmichael down. Now Six is a target and Carmichael is doing everything to stop him. He hires this lunatic named Lloyd to kill him, has the former boss' granddaughter held hostage, brings in multiple teams of killers, and has a woman blow herself up to stop the bad guys. Its a lot of action and though the movie is long as hell it manages to fly by fairly quickly. It reminded me of a late 80's or early 90's action film but with a bigger budget. I liked the camera work (people are complaining about all the drone shots) and the music. Good casting as well. I liked who I was supposed to like and hated who I hated. What made me give this a lower score was the length and the final battle at the end. It was like running a marathon and someone handing you a bowl of oatmeal instead of water at the finish line. Its on Netflix so y'all can check it out.

Ryan Gosling as "Sierra Six"

Chris Evans as Lloyd Hansen

Ana de Armas as Dani Miranda

Jessica Henwick as Suzanne Brewer

Regé-Jean Page as Denny Carmichael

Julia Butters as Claire Fitzroy

Alfre Woodard as Margaret Cahill

Billy Bob Thornton as Donald Fitzroy

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Sitting In The Aisle: Nope

Nope 9/10

Spoilers! I was finally able to go see a brand new movie in a theater!!! Took three years but it happened. L. and I went to see Nope at the AMC on Sunset and since it is one of my two favorite theaters I was very happy. So with a belly full of Pinche's Tacos we went to see the movie...after half an hour of trailers. AMC needs to chill on that. So this movie starts on a old TV show set with a chimp straight up murdering people while someone watches from under a table. A balloon popping set it off and it went bananas. Ha. The monkey, Gordy, goes for a fist bump from the young boy, Jupe, that is watching and then gets its head blown off. They show that later on though.

The Review: Choose Or Die

Choose Or Die 2/10

This was a movie that could have been good but somehow lost its way. It reminded me of those shows I wont even begin to watch because based on the premise I know its gonna have a not-ending. L. was watching this and I missed the first scene but she told me what happened and I got the gist of it. Video game collector finds this old game called CURS>R and it starts interacting with his real life in dangerous ass ways. Months later this girl named Kayla who is friends with this guy named Isaac gets the game from him. She heads home and her mother is on drugs after Kayla accidentally let her younger brother drown. She works nights and her life seems like ass. Oh, and a guy in the building wants to sleep with her, her mom, and gives mom drugs so that's cool.

The Review: The Inkwell

The Inkwell 4/10

Okay. So I had never seen The Inkwell. I had heard of it and thought it was one of those classic Black movies that I managed to go decades without seeing. Well...this movie was ass and weird. It is about this 16 year old boy named Drew with the worlds thickest, driest afro who is a weirdo from New York in 1976. His family plans on going to see his aunt and her family in Martha's Vineyard. He talks to himself saying just random shit and has a doll that he talks to and speaks to him...in his mind. So they head out to this place and everyone seems to hate each other. Drew's grandmother seems to hate his mom. His aunt's husband seems to hate Drew's father. Drew's father hates all of them. He is a former Black Panther. He thinks the family is very uppity. I don't think so. I think they are just weirdos just like everyone else in the film.

Drew hangs with his cousin Junior who is a ladies man I guess. His room is filthy and he has two friends who are goofballs. As L. pointed out at least these guys aren't mean to Drew. They take him to the beach and Drew spots this girl named Lauren who has a perpetually shitty look on her face. At home it is never made clear why Drew's grandmother doesn't like her daughter. The fathers keep getting into it and they end up fighting on a tennis court at one point. Drew's parents are on the verge of divorce. Turns out that Drew set the house on fire and people are worried that he's nuts. I would say so. Drew gets set up with a therapist and she sees him talking to the doll in his bag. Drew meets this older lady named Heather whose husband Harold cheats on her at least three times in this movie.

Curtain Call: Kinky Boots

Kinky Boots 9/10

I finally got to see Kinky Boots again! This is my fourth time seeing the show and every time I have its always different people playing the parts. One guy will better a better Lola. Another a better Charlie. This time everyone was the best version of these characters. If you are wondering why I didn't give this a 10/10 it is because the sound issues at The Hollywood Bowl. Like...its the fucking Hollywood Bowl. Why are they having sound issues? Regardless, it was much better than the sound at Pantages where I've seen this three previous times and adapted to the bad sound system. Also they had kids perform again. Its only happened the first time I'd seen the play. Since 2020 I have missed being able to go see this show because it has become a tradition.

The Review: The Boys Season 3

The Boys Season 3 (10/10)

Holy shit this show is good! This gonna be full of spoilers. I need to figure out how the hell I am even gonna write about this because there are a lot of people and a lot of things happening. Maybe I will just go character by character and try to tie all of their stories together and see how it goes. This is gonna be a mess. This season was the most violent, funniest, most somehow emotional, and best acted season so far. First season was good. Second was great. This was incredible!

The Review: The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby 8/10

Weeks ago I finally watched The Great Gatsby. I had never read the book or seen any other versions of this but I do remember seeing the meme from this. I thought this was a movie about a dude that loved to party all the time. I was very wrong. This is told through the eyes of a guy that lived next door to Gatsby. His name is Nick and he is getting treatment at a hospital and is told to just write about Gatsby. In 1922 he moves to his new place and there is this dude that throws these crazy ass parties. His cousin Daisy is married to an asshat named Tom. He is loaded. Nick gets invited to Gatsby's party which a mutual friend of Daisy named Jordan is surprised because no one gets invited. Daisy's husband brings Nick to a town called Valley of Ashes where he messes around with a woman who is very much not his wife.

The Review: The Umbrella Academy Season 3

Umbrella Academy Season 3 (6/10)

This wont be long. I know that I said I was not gonna watch this show if they made it but I did. I ended up ironing and plowing through the third season. This was definitely better than the second one even though there were way more people. Just like previous seasons it picks up right where the last one left off. The team is stuck in an alternate reality where their goofy asses were never created. Instead their adoptive father created the Sparrow Academy because when he met them in the 60's he realized that they were fuck ups and wanted to fix that. Just like before the world is going to end because of things they have done and mistakes that were made and they need to stop it and they do but not without a bunch of confusion in between. The new team seems to have a more famous lifestyle than the Umbrella Academy did but seem like jerks still. None are really likable. Again for the third time in a row Klaus and Five are the most interesting parts of the series. Vanya/Viktor remains uninteresting. Diego is a shit fighter. Luther's a jackass. And Allison is a monster.

The Review: A Thin Line Between Love And Hate

 

A Thin Line Between Love And Hate 7/10

This movie was crazy as hell. L. picked this one out for me to watch for the first time. This is about this dude named Darnell that is a nightclub manager that gives out VIP cards like free candy to women he wants to have sex with. Like, he got mothers, laundry workers, whoever. Even though he sleeping with all these women he still has a thing for a woman he knew when he was little. I think most guys do by the way. Her name is Mia and she is in the Air Force and home to visit. One day outside the club he spots lady who refuses to deal with him and his friend Tee's advances. He slips his card into her limo as she drives away.

You Had One Job: Ms. Marvel

I think I am gathering more of an understanding as to why I am not enjoying the Ms. Marvel series. Other than the fact that I am not close to its target audience being a 40 something year old Black dude. Reading about how the show was designed with Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World as inspiration made me frown since I didn't like that movie. Her hero, Captain Marvel, was one of the worst MCU films for me so its hard to root for a character who is inspired by her and makes me roll my eyes when she raves about how cool she was. I mean, she has had one movie and showed up in another and its not like she defeated Thanos. She gets way too much credit. If you wanna read me talking about that film you can click here because I don't need to get too into it here.

The Review: Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness

Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness 9/10

ALL KINDA SPOILERS!!! This movie felt like a great culmination of watching way too many MCU TV shows and movies and reading and listening to comic book videos on YouTube. L. and I never got to see this in theaters (my fault) but I was happy that this was coming out on Disney+ and that I managed to not have any of this spoiled which is amazing considering how many surprises were in this for me. This starts with a girl named America Chavez and Strange fighting against this crazy ass demon. They are trying to reach a book and he is telling her to use her power of teleporting through realities to help. She can't control them and he ends up trying to use her powers, meaning kill her, to finish the job. He ends up dying and she teleports their corpses away. Meanwhile Strange in out universe is at Christine's wedding and saying he is happy. He not happy. He miserable and cranky. One of his old coworkers asks if giving Thanos the stone was truly the right thing to do seeing as how he vanished for years and his brother and cats all died.

Documentality: Our Father/Baby God/Keep Sweet Pray And Obey

Our Father Oh?/10

Not quite sure how I ended up watching three damned documentaries about disgusting ass men but here I am. The first was Our Father on Netflix. It is about this fertility doctor that spent 30 years using his own sperm to impregnate women in a small town. He was bitten in the ass by all these new ancestry sites and DNA kits and when this woman started looking into him ended up finding out that she had over 100 siblings. This got progressively worse as the episode went on with more popping up and how his church stuck by him through it. That is one thing these documentaries will show you: church can be used as a dangerous weapon and a shield. There was no law that said he couldn't be a fucking creep so he ended up in court but got like a $500 fine.

The Review: No Time To Die

No Time To Die 1/10

This movie? Wack. The acting? Wack. The music? Wack. The story? Wack. Seriously, I did not enjoy this at all and didn't give it a 0/10 because I finished it. All I knew about this beforehand was that folks were mad about a Black woman being the new Bond. James Bond is still James Bond. This woman got the 007 name after he left which was done to be petty I guess. This could have been an hour long with how thin the story was. It had been so long since the last film I forgot he had a consistent love interest in any way. I really have nothing else to add. I did not like this. I almost didn't even write this cause its not really a review. Not gonna bother listing the cast either. Like, this movie had some action scenes that were separated by weak dialogue.

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The Review: Outer Range

Outer Range 8/10

This series was crazy as hell. I really enjoyed Outer Range because I could not figure out what was going on or where the series was going. But what I liked most about it is what worries me. I fear that the creators of this show do not have a clear ending like a lot of shows I have made fun of and didn't bother watching. You know the types of shows that have a cool premise but end up canceled or being terrible because there was no clear cut exit. This series is about a family with an assload of secrets that threaten not only them but seemingly the future. This guy named Royal Abbott lives on this ranch with his wife Cecelia who is losing her mind and religion, their two sons Rhett who rides bulls, and Perry whose wife vanished leaving him with their daughter, Amy. One day this spooky ass woman named Autumn shows up and she seems to know some secrets about the land and wants to stay there.