Series and Movie Reviews
ETERNALS is the kind of movie you’d expect from indie director Chloé Zhao. The writer/director brings a different sensibility to the MCU movie making it Marvel Studio’s most esoteric and adult entry.
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Tis the Halloween season to talk about your scary options for this year on streaming platforms. Jana on Camera and I rate new horror series, Chucky, I Know What You Did Last Summer, Knight Books and movies such as HALLOWEEN KILLS and NIGHT HOUSE with Rebecca Hall on the Halloween edition of the Hollywood Critics Association's What to Stream.
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For this week's HCA What to Stream podcast, Jana and I discuss our streaming picks which include Eugenio Derbez's new Apple TV+ bilingual comedy series, Acapulco, Dave Chappelle's new Netflix special, The Closer,On My Block's fourth and final season and two other series picks.
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Daniel Craig brought depth to the James Bond character and in NO TIME TO DIE Craig brings heart to 007 in a satisfying and bittersweet way.
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Tom Hardy returns as Eddie Brock along with his pal Venom for a bromance-filled plot lacking in action in the follow-up to 2018's VENOM. The main attraction is Hardy's hilarious and endearing performance in the buddy comedy, but on the superhero front VENOM: LET THERE BE CARNAGE doesn't live up to the title.
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Joe Carnahan directs the ultra-violent COPSHOP starring Gerard Butler, Frank Grillo, Toby Huss (Dickinson, Reno 911!) and the sole woman Alexis Louder (THE TOMORROW WAR, Watchmen) in your run of the mill action movie but Louder outsmarts the men for a scene-stealing performance.
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On this week's Hollywood Critics Association's 'What to Stream," Jana Nagase and Lupe Haas of CineMovie discuss EVERYBODY'S TALKING ABOUT JAMIE, Clint Eastwood's CRY MACHO, Jake Gyllenhaal's THE GUILTY, THE PROTEGE starring Michael Keaton, Maggie Q, and Samuel L. Jackson and the docuseries LulaRich.
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Two different sorts of princesses make their debut this weekend on streaming. Camila Cabello is a progressive Cinderella in Amazon Prime Video's new movie while a sword-wielding princess in YAKUZA PRINCESS is kicking butt and taking names for in a theatrical run and VOD rental. On Hulu, Selena Gomez joins comedic veterans Steve Martin and Martin Short for a true-crime /murder mystery series. Watch full reviews with my HCA "What to Stream" cohost Jana in the video below.
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You would think a movie relegated to a streaming service automatically meant it was subpar but VACATION FRIENDS with John Cena and Lil Rel Howery is a blast with the actors playing against type and polar opposites.
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Candyman is a boogeyman like no other, born out of social injustice. CANDYMAN is a sequel that updates the urban legend in an equally horrifying way. Like the original, the real horrors behind the monster are rooted in the sins of the past and present.
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