Sometimes when I look up Oscar-nominated movies (since I often haven’t heard of them until they are nominated), I get really excited about them. The Big Short was not one of those movies. It’s about some guys predicting the housing market cash of the mid-2000s and making a bunch of money off it. Oops, I… Continue reading The Big Short Exceeded My Small Expectations
Update: Season 3 of this series is pretty fantastic! I gave the season its own review, I liked it so much! My husband and I started watching the Netflix Original series “Daredevil” a few months after it was released, kind of on a whim, knowing very little about it, beyond that it looked at least… Continue reading What Catholics Should Know About Netflix’s Daredevil
I’m about to say something that could make me wildly unpopular: I didn’t love Despicable Me. Partly, it had too much cutesie/gimmicky humor. And partly, I am bitter that it went on to become a massive hit while its DreamWorks doppelganger, Megamind, didn’t. Megamind is the only animated movie as yet to make it onto… Continue reading Why Megamind Should be a Classic
There’s actually a social media campaign going around right now to stop ABC’s “Last Man Standing” from being canceled. I completely understand the sentiment and the principle of wanting it to remain on the air, but I think the topic brings up a complex issue. “Last Man Standing” is a multi-camera (think laugh track)… Continue reading My Mixed Feelings on Last Man Standing’s Cancellation
I have a confession to make. I didn’t like The Notebook. I know, it’s almost like I lose some serious girl-cred to even say that. Because women in general seem to think it’s some amazing, beautiful story of sap-I-mean-romance. I, on the other hand, have no intention to ever watch it again. Oh wait, I… Continue reading Why I didn’t like the Movie One Day
I must confess that I was excited to watch Netflix’s new series, “13 Reasons Why.” As much as one can be excited to watch something that has as the core of its premise a teenager killing herself. Mostly, I was intrigued because I knew it was adapted from a best-selling young adult novel, and I… Continue reading The “13 Reasons Why” Issues that No One is Talking About
House of Cards wasn’t really on my radar as something I wanted to watch. It wasn’t in my Netflix queue, and I honestly didn’t know too much about it. Then one day I was on the outskirts of a conversation with some fellow Christian screenwriters (who, obviously, talk a lot about the best movies and… Continue reading Why We Stopped Watching House of Cards
When my husband and I started watching “Iron Fist”, we had high hopes for it. So far, Daredevil was the only Netflix Original Marvel universe show we had watched, and we had kind of loved it. We were looking forward to more of the same quality in “Iron Fist.” As we watched the beginning of… Continue reading Iron Fist is No Daredevil
The CW’s “Frequency” looked to me like it might be okay, when it first came out this last fall. But it didn’t excite me enough to jump on the premier bandwagon and wait to watch an episode faithfully every week. Then it quickly came to Netflix, and it was trending (which, incidentally, doesn’t necessarily mean… Continue reading “Frequency” is… Fine
Sometimes I’ll see movies that I’ve never heard of in the “Trending Now” list on Netflix, and I’ll get excited about the possibility of finding a hidden gem. If they’re trending, I reason, that means they’ve got to be good enough that a lot people are watching. And when I read the description of The… Continue reading The Matchbreaker Should be Watched with Low Expectations
