WeCrashed Tells the Story of the Rise and ‘Fall’ of an Entrepreneur Couple and their Co-Working Company
WeCrashed is a tricky show to like. On one hand, lead actors Jared Leto and Anne Hathaway do well as obnoxious entrepreneurs high on their own supply, but at the same time, the show is also tonally disjointed and it…
Sonic the Hedgehog 2 Continues the Streak of Breaking the Video Game Adaptation Curse
Due to circumstances no one saw coming, Sonic the Hedgehog ended up being the highest-grossing film of 2020. In true sequel fashion, Sonic the Hedgehog 2, tries to go bigger in almost all aspects, and it doesn’t always work. However,…
Dasvi Updates the Munna Bhai Formula with the Story of a Politician Who Decides to Complete his High School Education
Dasvi has an intriguing premise going for it: a corrupt politician decides to finish up his high school education while in prison as his previously submissive wife becomes a heady politician in her own right in his absence. Drawn from…
Everything Everywhere All at Once is a Fresh, Weirdly Funny Movie about the Multiverse that Might Just Become a Classic
Everything Everywhere All at Once takes the increasingly popular multiverse premise explored in superhero fiction like Spider-Man: No Way Home. Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, and The Flash, and creates a whole new niche for itself. It marries…
Ambulance is A Two-Hour Car Chase Disguised as a Michael Bay Movie
If someone offered you a million dollars for driving a car two hours straight, you would probably say yes. However, if someone asked you to drive a car full of stolen money and hostages with the entire LA law enforcement…
The Bubble is a Five Minute Sketch Stretched into a 2-Hour, Toothless Satire
Usually, you get to see reviewers flex their writing chops when especially terrible films have the misfortune of landing on their plates. As disappointed as they are by the terribleness of these films, one can’t help but feel that reviewers…
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel Slows Down in Fourth Season (and Loses Some of its Momentum)
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel has always stood out because of its premise: a Jewish housewife starting a career as a standup comedian in the fifties. Four seasons in, however, the sheen of that premise has faded, and now we have…
The Dropout Dramatizes the Rise and Fall of an Ambitious Startup Founder Who Conned Her Investors (and Thousands of Patients) for Years
The Dropout is just one of three different shows about startup founders and their demise out right now. It’s also part of a larger trend of dramatization of real stories that are seen in other shows such as Inventing Anna,…
Upload Returns with a Better (and Shorter) Second Season, Expanding its Vision of the Future and the Digital Afterlife
A lot has changed since Upload’s first season premiered in May 2020. The pandemic has become an uneasy fixture of our daily life, and things have become even direr with a new war and the prospects of nuclear armageddon becoming…
Space Force Season Two is a Marginal Improvement, But it’s Still Not Enough to Save the Show
Space Force is hardly the first Greg Daniels-created sitcom to have to drastically readjust its course after a tumultuous first season. Both the Office and Parks and Recreation had to face this obstacle, and their success with the task gives…
