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THE PITT SEASON 2 REVIEW The Pitt returns for Season 2, continuing its unflinching, real-time look at life inside one of America’s busiest emergency rooms. Set ten months after the explosive first season, which was marked by a mass shooting, the new season unfolds over a single 15-hour real-time shift on the Fourth of July, […]

STRANGER THINGS: TALES FROM ’85 SERIES REVIEW Just when you thought it was safe to cancel your Netflix subscription, Stranger Things: Tales from ’85 is back to deliver another shot of 80s nostalgia, or at least nostalgia for a streaming series that ended less than five months ago. Set between the events of seasons two […]

THE MADISON SERIES REVIEW John Steinbeck once said “I’m in love with Montana. For other states, I have admiration, respect, recognight, even some affection. But with Montana, it is love.”  Paramount Plus presents  the new show by Taylor Sheridan; a story of a man who had two great loves in his life: his wife, and […]

JURY DUTY PRESENTS: COMPANY RETREAT SERIES REVIEW As part of our ongoing commitment to workplace synergy and content optimization, the One Of Us Screener Squad has asked Felix, Eoin, and T.C. to complete a comprehensive evaluation of this recent entry into the hidden camera comedy genre. This innovative offsite simulation places a group of employees […]

SHRINKING SEASON 3 REVIEW From prolific creator and showrunner Bill Lawrence (Scrubs, Cougar Town, Ted Lasso) comes the third season of Apple TV‘s hit Shrinking. When we first met licensed therapist Jimmy Laird (Jason Segel) he was a grief-stricken widower and single father spiraling out of control, lost in a haze of substance abuse and […]

DTF ST. LOUIS SERIES REVIEW Henry David Thoreau famously said, “The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.” One can only imagine what he would think of the sex lives of lonely, middle-aged suburbanites suspected of murder. Jason Bateman and David Harbour play Clark and Floyd, two friends who are sexually unsatisfied in their […]

BAIT SERIES REVIEW Tomorrow Never Dies at the James Bond Rumour mill and with Amazon pulling the strings, The World is Not Enough. It’ll take a real GoldenEye casting director to pick the next actor to be On Her Majesty’s Secret Service. Comment sections are being real Dr. No about all suggestions stepping away from […]

LOVE STORY MOVIE REVIEW Love is a many splendored thing, and back in the 90’s two lovers, named John F. Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bessette, kissed and the world stood still. The two would be lifted up by love where they belonged but alas not every love is like like in the storybooks. While all […]

SHE DANCES MOVIE REVIEW She Dances stars Steve Zahn as Jason, a divorced father who owns a successful whiskey distillery with his best friend and business partner, Brian (Ethan Hawke). They’re in the middle of negotiations to sell their company for a lot of money, when Jason receives a call from his ex-wife Deb, (Rosemarie […]

FOR WORSE MOVIE REVIEW Winter is wrapping up and romance is in the air, whether you’re a young adult taking your first steps into a relationship or an adult abandoning the burning wreckage of a sinking relationship. Directed, written, and starring Amy Landecker, For Worse is the story of a woman rediscovering the awkward vulnerability […]

A KNIGHT OF THE SEVEN KINGDOMS SERIES REVIEW A century before Daenerys Stormborn of House Targaryen, the first of her name, Queen of the Andals, Khaleesi of the great grass sea, the unburnt, breaker of chains and mother of dragons met Jon Snow, the King of the North, there was a hedge knight and squire […]

DREAMS MOVIE REVIEW Whenever I see a movie about marginalized groups of people in pursuit of a better life, I am tempted to quote Steinbeck and the nightmare that is the American dream. I’m not going to do that to introduce this film though I will quote the character Professor Walter Vale played by Richard […]

BREAKDOWN: 1975 MOVIE REVIEW At times, film has the power to give a voice to the voiceless and speak truth to a power that would ignore those voices. When a culture shifts its thinking and changes the method and way stories are told about people, and the world in general, a massive culture shift can […]

100 METERS MOVIE REVIEW Good cardio may make the difference between life and death in an apocalypse but in this animated feature, it’s the difference between life and a shuffling zombie existence in a 9 to 5 desk job pushing pencils and remembering days long past when the act of running was an expression of […]

ISLANDS MOVIE REVIEW Sometimes people take a vacation and they never go home. Then vacation then becomes a routine, and that routine becomes a whole lot of work. Islands follows a Tennis coach named Tom (Sam Riley) who at one time went by the pro nickname of Aces. His kindness, charisma, and all around chill […]

COVER-UP MOVIE REVIEW 1991 marks the year the world wide web officially launched and became available to everyone. A new way to discover and share truth was available to every man woman and child on this earth in one way or another. With this new technology a plethora of news, stories, and of course, entertaining […]

DOWN CEMETERY ROAD SERIES REVIEW Nothing rebuilds and keeps the foundations of friendships solid like a good old fashion dinner party. Want to impress your spouse, wow your boss, and boost the morale of your community? Dinner party!! Nothing ruins a dinner party quite like a bomb going off, though. We ain’t just talking a […]

GOODBYE JUNE MOVIE REVIEW Kelly Barnhill once wrote “Death is always sudden, even when it isn’t”. Though all of us will eventually choose to go quietly into that good night or fight against the dying of the light, death will come for all of us, and for some of us that meeting with the Grim […]

HIS AND HERS SERIES REVIEW A lotta things can call us back to our childhood home town. Adoring parents. Cherished memories. A reunion of some kind. Even a homicide! Investigative journalist Ana Andrews (Tessa Thompson) returns to her childhood home when a close high school friend is found stabbed over a dozen times and left […]

HOLLYWOOD ROYALTY: MINISODE #1: NETWORK For the first in a series of minisodes in which we look at the 60s and 70s films that helped make Faye Dunaway a star, we revisit Sidney Lumet’s game-changing Network ahead of its 50th anniversary later this year. The story of a television network that goes from the bottom […]

HOLLYWOOD ROYALTY: EP 1: THE CHAMP/THE FIRST DEADLY SIN/EVITA PERON Welcome to the debut episode of Hollywood Royalty: Dunaway After Crawford, a look at the post-Mommie Dearest career of Faye Dunaway; early 80s to early 00s. Before we dive into the infamous movie itself and some of the projects that came Faye’s way afterwards, we […]

NE ZHA 2 MOVIE REVIEW Ne Zha, the story of a rebellious and powerful child deity in Chinese mythology with origins in Buddhist lore, has been interpreted and adapted throughout the centuries through word of mouth, written folk lore, and like all the best myths, adapted to the silver screen. Therefore it is no surprise […]

ALL’S FAIR SERIES REVIEW RIta Rudner once said “Marriages don’t last. When I meet a guy, the first question I ask myself is: is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?”. Hulu presents a show about a law firm of ladies helping women turn those I Do’s into I don’t […]

OH. WHAT. FUN. MOVIE REVIEW One Christmas you’re bound in a homemade leather suit decapitating mannequins while eluding the detective skills of a millionaire with daddy issues while awakening your independence and empowering an audience of all ages to do the same in the face of an uncaring apathetic world. Meow! Then three decades later, […]

JAY KELLY MOVIE REVIEW Netflix’s Jay Kelly arrives as a quiet, contemplative drama about success, friendship, and the uneasy space between who you were and who you’ve become. Noah Baumbach uses his career-long craft of telling stories that explore themes of success, sacrifice, loss, and existential dread to get George Clooney and Adam Sandler Golden […]

COME SEE ME IN THE GOOD LIGHT MOVIE REVIEW Allen Ginsberg once said “Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It’s that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that’s what the poet does.” Andrea Gibson is a poet whose works include the acclaimed […]

WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO BETTE & JOAN?: BONUS EPISODE 4: AND THE NOMINEES ARE… Welcome to the fourth bonus episode of What Ever Happened to Bette & Joan?, an ongoing journey through the later careers of Bette Davis & Joan Crawford. Although our travels through Bette & Joan’s post-Baby Jane years may have come to […]

UNDER THE STARS MOVIE REVIEW Regarding true love, I give you this quote from the pages of “A Wizard and Glass” by Stephen King. “True love, like any other strong and addicting drug, is boring—once the tale of encounter and discovery is told, kisses quickly grow stale and caresses tiresome…except, of course, to those who […]

TRAIN DREAMS MOVIE REVIEW Denis Johnson once said “If you write fiction, you’re by yourself. There are certain advantages to that in that you don’t have to explain anything to anybody”. An adaptation of one of Johnson’s most cherished novellas is now streaming on Netflix, Train Dreams. Robert Grainier (Joel Edgerton) is a man living […]

BUNNY MOVIE REVIEW There are so many songs about New York from all kinds of artists. From crooners to rappers, the adulation of the big apple can be heard world wide, but the best kind of harmonies that make up the most memorable stories are from the voices of the communities within the city itself. […]

HEDDA MOVIE REVIEW That Gatsby, now he was great, a guy who knew how to throw a party. In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars. You know who else could throw a luxurious party and all for the sake of killing […]

A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE MOVIE REVIEW Tony Scott’s Crimson Tide. John Woo’s Broken Arrow. Heck, even Michael Bay’s The Rock. What do these films have in common? Bad men have THE BOMB and they are threatening to launch. Okay, Gene Hackman as a bad man in Crimson Tide is sort of debatable but that’s what […]

SLOW HORSES SEASON 5 REVIEW Slow Horses Season 5 wastes no time setting up the stakes, starting with a brutal mass shooting in the heart of London. This kicks off a series of terrorist attacks in a politically divided city during the midst of a fraught mayoral campaign. Ordinarily, this would be a job for […]

ONLY MURDERS IN THE BUILDING SEASON 5 REVIEW After four seasons of murders in the building, you would think the titular building would be the least desirable apartment complex in all of Manhattan. Fortunately for fans of Only Murders in the Building, people are still dying to move into The Arconia, home of true crime […]

TASK SERIES REVIEW Remember Mare of Easttown on HBO? A self contained mini series with three acts about an FBI agent with no extended universe, no hanging threads or unresolved plots, and also it was for grown ups? We were watching week to week the dominoes being set up by the hand of cruelty and […]

MR. SCORSESE SERIES REVIEW Martin Scorsese has been one of our most acclaimed filmmakers for so long, that it’s easy to forget his reputation and career weren’t always as secure as they are now. Scorsese has been the subject of many articles, books, and documentaries before, so it’s hard to imagine anything that hasn’t been […]

LOVE, BROOKLYN MOVIE REVIEW Everybody loves a fluff piece, and why not? In these trying times, feeling good is a hallmark of being human and keeping the hope alive. What borough of a city is more of an example of hope and prosperity than Brooklyn?. I know what you’re thinking: a lot of parts of […]