There’s something fascinating about the human need to quantify subjective opinions. We rate movies with stars (and even half-stars), we give them thumbs up or down, we aggregate their reviews until we determine if they are “certified fresh.” (What could be more authoritative than certified freshness? Who could argue with that?!?) These numbers sometimes fly in the … Read more
The Jinx could have been created to prove the old adage that truth is stranger than fiction. It told the story of Robert Durst, the black sheep of an obscenely wealthy New York real estate dynasty, who police connected to the mysterious disappearances or deaths of three different people: His first wife Kathy, his best friend Susan Berman, and … Read more
The Two Sisters episode 16 aired on KBS2 on Tuesday, February 13, 2024. Fans of the series have been curious to see what happens in the new episode after the previous one ended on such a dramatic note. Episode 15 saw Bae Do-Eun (Ha Yeon-Joo), aka Lee Hye-Ji, embracing Lee Hye-Won (Lee So-Yeon) after addressing her … Read more
Her place in the MCU is refreshed for the audience in the form of unnecessarily rehashed flashbacks, whose place in the show are edited in a frankly burdensome way. It points to the central point of contention this show suffers from: Its place in the MCU. Despite this, they do act as a way for … Read more
It’s important to remember what a Rotten Tomatoes rating really represents: The average of a collection of individual scores from many different film critics. It is not a grade. It is not something determined by a group of critics who get together in a room and collectively decide on a number. It’s also not a measure … Read more
Film fans will forever remember July 21, 2023, a weekend that shall go down in history for creating one very long and very strange word. Barbenheimer. For reasons I cannot really understand, people became transfixed, even obsessed by the notion that two extremely different (but also very exciting) movies were getting released to theaters on … Read more
One might assume, given Barbie dolls’ target audience, that the first big-screen, live-action Barbie movie would also be aimed squarely at that same audience of younger kids. But at least according to the Motion Picture Association, this is a movie that parents may want to exercise caution around. Surprisingly, the Barbie movie is not rated … Read more
Every Marvel movie balances the need to bring people out to the theater with the need to give those customers who do buy tickets at least a few big moments that will make them feel like they got their money’s worth. So there are inevitably moments and characters who are heavily advertised for their films, … Read more