The Adam Project (2022)

Look, I wanted to like this movie, I really did. I like Ryan Reynolds, and Jennifer Garner and Mark Ruffalo are always welcome in anything I watch, but the longer I ruminate on this movie, the less I like it. Full spoilers ahead!

The Open House (2018)

I have had the opening paragraph of a review of The Open House sitting in my drafts for months because this movie was just too bland to say much about it. The actors were doing their very best, which is about the only solidly good thing I can say for it. Unfortunately, though they did try, they were unable to polish this turd into a diamond. Heads up, this is going to be a very spoilery review because I had some severe issues with the ending that kind of ruined the already mediocre movie. Full spoilers ahead!

Bushwick (2017)

I watched a movie called Bushwick last night. Long story short: it was okay! It was ambitious and gets a lot of points for that, but the execution left something to be desired. For the slightly longer story, read on...

A Ranking of the Time Travel Shows of the 2016/2017 Season

Time Travel was a big theme for TV shows this past season - none were particularly successful, but I watched them all. Here are my rankings, from worst to first:

Riverdale Season 1

I have been waiting a while for this to come on Netflix, and finally this week it did! I have lots of thoughts on this show, kind of mixed but mostly good...

Party of Five ruins everything

Sorry for my lack of posting to all one of you who read this blog (Hi, Kendall!). I have been caught up in the whirlwind that is Party of Five - now on Netflix! I am somewhere in season 3 and I think I like it? But I also don't? I guess what I'm saying is I don't have strong feelings either way, which makes writing a review about it hard, but it also makes it difficult to review other things when I have the mediocrity that is Po5 swimming around in my noggin. Here is a list of things I have watched and started (but not finished) reviews of since I've started watching Party of Five:

-First Period (2013) - this was a rewatch, a review requested by Kendong. I have mixed feelings on this one
-Train To Busan (2016) - Korean zombie movie. Loved it.
-Riverdale season 1 - I actually just binge watched this last night into today. I have lots of thoughts on this one!

So yeah. I'll get back on this eventually. I think my interest in Party of Five is petering out so I can just forget about it and move on. Soon.

Lavender (2016)

Lavender is a supernatural horror movie currently on Netflix. I think it's shooting for "atmospheric" but lands squarely at "kind of boring".

13 Reasons Why on Netflix

I have seen some controversy surrounding this series. Some people think it's exploitative of suicide as entertainment. Some people just think it's boring. However, I think overall response to this series has been fairly positive.

So, this is based on a young adult novel by the same name (well, I think the novel spells out the thirteen, but same diff). It's about a teenage girl named Hannah who kills herself (not a spoiler, she's dead at the start of the series) and sends thirteen tapes around to the thirteen people who, she feels, pushed her to the point of suicide. Each episode is a different tape, and we see, in flashbacks, what happened to Hannah, and we see the fallout of her suicide in the present. The main character is a kid named Clay who had a crush on Hannah and can't for the life of him figure out why he is on the tapes since he never really wronged Hannah in a huge way.