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Leading up to Valentine's Day 2024, the latest romantic comedy offering is Prime Video's Puppy Love – a sweet, albeit forgettable entry into the much-loved genre. Even if the cheesy, off-key title doesn't seem inviting enough, this is a tale of two socially-awkward individuals, who find each other because of their pets. He has OCD (obsessive compulsive disorder), she has no inhibitions on privacy or space. What are the odds that they will share some time together and fall in love along the way? The trope has been played…

Film: Two Sinners and a mule (Lionsgate Play)Cast: Cam Gigandet, Chantelle Albers, Hannah JamesDirector: Raliegh WilsonRating: 1.5/5Runtime: 97 min A generic western comes our way after a long hiatus but it’s not the ‘Unforgiven’ kind. This one is way too insignificant and frivolous to be likeable. A pair of saloon girls Alice (Chantelle Albers) and Nora (Hannah James), get run out of town by a mob of jealous wives known as The Women’s Decency League, and en route they save a bounty hunter Elden…

The ever-growing landscape of reality TV continues to electrify folks who gravitate towards that intriguing sub-genre. However, with Netflix’s recent trend of putting the proverbial dagger through the hearts of many television series, reality TV fans that eat that specific content up like hotcakes will be disappointed to learn that Netflix has abruptly canceled Snowflake Mountain after just one season. As per Deadline, the interactive series has apparently been canned by the streaming service after first premiering on…

Cr. Courtesy of Netflix © 2022. It doesn’t matter how much they cost, or how big the names are that star in them, Netflix still has an awful lot of work to do in order to convince the skeptics that its capable of consistently churning out high quality blockbusters. Extraction 2 might be a rare exception, but when was the last time anybody even thought about Day Shift? The $100 million action comedy did have a decent high concept premise that found Jamie Foxx’s everyman moonlighting as a vampire hunter, but a 57…

Cr. Netflix © 2021 There’s no point in even trying to deny that Red Notice wasn’t a hugely successful undertaking on Netflix’s part seeing as it reigns as the streaming service’s most-watched original movie of all-time, but you can also state an equally strong argument that it’s easily one of the most forgettable features to ever come bearing such an eye-watering price tag. Ironically, the exact same sentiment could also be applied to The Gray Man, which also happens to be a costly Netflix exclusive bearing a…

New research suggests that women and racial minorities can be remembered more when they are few, but are more likely to be confused with others sharing the same attributes in diverse settings.Several years ago at an academic conference, Michèle Belot recalls having a conversation with a fellow participant who was convinced she had authored a research paper that wasn’t hers. The participant had mistaken them for another female scholar, which Belot stated is a common occurrence among her colleagues.These incidents, combined…

via Dimension Films Combining science fiction with horror has always tended to be a mixed bag, with the genre-bending mashups equally capable of delivering greatness as they are garbage. Depending on who you ask, though, Dark Skies can be placed in either camp. Writer and director Scott Stewart had established an unwanted reputation for helming widely-panned high concept fantasies through the dismal Priest and diabolical Legion, but by his standards Dark Skies was a relative critical success after landing a…

Cr: Netflix © 2023 One of these days, Netflix will get a solid handle on the fantasy genre, but Chupa indicates that we’re a long way away from reaching the point where the streaming service fully embraces and understands adventures rooted in myth and legend. On one side of the coin, there are literally dozens of original TV shows that gathered passionate fandoms, only for the company to pull the plug and infuriate them countless times over. On the other, though, there are eminently forgettable blockbusters…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain At an academic conference some years ago, Michèle Belot spoke with a participant who was convinced she had authored a research paper that wasn't hers. He'd confused her with another female scholar, an experience she said is familiar to many colleagues. Such incidents—plus awareness of her own…

via Marvel Studios I think everyone can admit that there were a few things from Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania that were a tad disappointing. The ending was not what people expected after having the trailers build it up the way they did, and the fact that Kang the Conqueror was conquered was a little bit of a letdown for his character, but one of the biggest gripes of the film was the way they handled M.O.D.O.K. The adaption of the famed comic book villain was so far off of many people’s hopes that he has…