Movie Reviews and Other Writings

Plan B is about Sunny, a smart, high school student with an overbearing Indian mother, and Lupe, a closeted high school student with a strict Latino father. The two of them decide enough is enough and they're going to throw a party while Sunny's mom is out of town. Sunny's plan is to get to know her crush, Hunter, better, but the night takes a turn and she ends up having sex. While the sex is protected, the condom was improperly attached and stayed in her all night. The women

Saint Maud is about a recently devout nurse who has left her hospital job after a terrible accident. She's gotten work as a private care nurse for a hospice patient. While she, Maud, cares for her patient, Amanda, Maud gently attempts to proselytize to Amanda and get her to see God's love before dying. Though, something is off about all of this, something about how Maud views her relationship to the divine and her purpose in the world. This perversion of faith swells to a hor

DISCLAIMER: I used my HBO Max subscription to watch this film. It is available in theaters and if you have been FULLY vaccinated and go to a theater with safety measures in place, it's my understanding it is safe to do so. Yet, you may want to read the review and decide for yourself if it's worth it. Those Who Wish Me Dead is about Hannah, a smokejumper and wildfire fighter in Montana, who is dealing with the trauma of losing colleagues and civilians in last year's wildfire s

DISCLAIMER: While this movie is playing in a movie theater, I watched it at a virtual screening room. I still do not feel comfortable going to a theater to see a film yet. The Paper Tigers is a story of three kung fu students who grow up and grow apart from each other. The mysterious death of their sifu (kung fu master) brings the men together to try and get closure for their fallen master. Along the way they have to reckon with their past mistakes and the ravages that time a