Hi friends, It's time once again to look back at the past 12 months, with 2025 looming right around the corner. This was a challenging year in many ways, which is why we're as appreciative as ever that you choose to spend some time with us every day. This site recently celebrated its 15th anniversary, and you all continue to show up from around the world to check out the latest ramblings. You are the best. Now, the usual disclaimer: We like to think that everything we wrote this year was top-notch, so it's hard to single out just a... Read more →

Welcome to the latest installment of, "Catching up on movies we missed this summer." (You can click here to read our review for Deadpool & Wolverine.) This has been a hectic year, and there's also the troubling reality that there aren't any major movie theaters near us anymore. Thus, our crew is depending on our various streaming subscriptions to get us up to speed. Next up: We've got Bad Boys: Ride or Die, which is now available on Netflix. Was the fourth film in the franchise worth the wait? Let's get to it... The original Bad Boys movie has always... Read more →

We never made it to the movies this summer, due to a combination of life being hectic, and the fact that most of the theaters that were closest to us have closed over the past year. (There's also the issue that we've lost a lot of interest in sitting in a crowd ever since the pandemic.) For the most part, that was fine. There weren't too many films that made us think, "Oh, we need to see that on a big screen." However, one of the only exceptions was the global blockbuster, Deadpool & Wolverine. It was disappointing not to... Read more →

This year marks the 40th anniversary of Detroit Detective Axel Foley's first adventure to Beverly Hills. He's back once again, this time to help his public defender daughter who has stumbled into a conspiracy involving dirty cops. Is this enough of a reason for Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F (out now on Netflix) to exist, or is the fourth installment in this franchise just a 1980's nostalgia trip? Let's discuss. It's business as usual right from the start of the film. Axel interrupts an armed robbery at a Detroit Red Wings game, while Glenn Frey's "The Heat is On" returns... Read more →

Full disclosure: Having really enjoyed 2019's Captain Marvel, it was disappointing at first to hear that Carol Danvers would not get her own solo sequel. Instead, she was to be paired with Kamala Khan and Monica Rambeau in a buddy film. It felt like a lack of confidence from Marvel that was unjustified. However, despite misgivings about that decision, yours truly promises that what follows is an objective review of The Marvels, which is now available on Disney+. While this wasn't our first preference, it turns out that these three women team up in one of the more entertaining Marvel... Read more →

There aren't many actors who can hold that sad/funny intersection as well as Paul Giamatti. He can pull you in to his character's depression until it weighs on you like it's your own, and then he can make you laugh on a dime with a simple look or small gesture. That ability has served him well in his 30+ year career, and his abilities are as strong as ever. Giamatti once again walks that line with expert finesse in director Alexander Payne's The Holdovers, a sweet and kind comedy about loneliness, which is now available on NBC's Peacock streaming service.... Read more →

Full Disclosure: I am a middle-age, heterosexual, white guy who never owned a Barbie or Ken doll when I was a little kid. I'm also generally neutral about Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling. They're both fine actors, but neither one has pulled me to a movie theater. In that case, why did I go to see Barbie? 1) I wanted to see incoming Doctor Who star Ncuti Gatwa on the big screen as one of the Kens. 2) Wolfgang Van Halen played on the soundtrack. 3) The angrier conservatives get about anything, the more interesting it becomes. Now that we've... Read more →

Reese Witherspoon and Ashton Kutcher team up for the new Netflix romantic comedy, Your Place or Mine (out now). They play a pair of best friends who hooked up once 20 years ago, and have been close ever since. Witherspoon plays Debbie, a single mom in Los Angeles who needs to take a class in New York City to finish an accounting program. Peter is a former wannabe author/now consultant living in NYC, who offers to take care of Debbie's teenage son Jack (played by Wesley Kimmel) in Los Angeles for a week so she can get her degree. The... Read more →

There was a stretch from about 1989-1997 when Pamela Anderson seemed to be everywhere. It started with her 1989 debut in Playboy, built some momentum with her appearance on Home Improvement, and then her career exploded as lifeguard C.J. Parker on Baywatch. She was a regular guest on talk shows and the constant focus of the tabloids. Her career was eventually derailed with the release of the stolen sex tape featuring her and ex-husband Tommy Lee in 1995. After that, she seemed to largely fall off the radar, except for her string of high-profile husbands, and her support of the... Read more →

We wanted to be excited about the new movie, You People, which just came out on Netflix. It has a talented cast (including Eddie Murphy, Jonah Hill, Lauren London, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, David Duchovny and Nia Long, among others,) and it was directed by Black-ish creator Kenya Barris (who also co-wrote the movie with Hill.) The film is an updated version of Look Who's Coming to Dinner. There's plenty of material to work with here regarding race, religion, and other differences. However, the final product falls flat. Hill and London play Ezra Cohen and Amira Mohammed, a couple who meet thanks... Read more →