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Movie Review: Set It Up

Long have we bemoaned the fall of the Romantic Comedy genre, and we aren’t the only ones. Chrissy Teigen feels our pain. Netflix felt that pain and seems to be willing the entire genre back into our hearts. Thank god, I know I need a bit of wacky hijinks and perhaps more screwball in my life right now. Set It Up is a Netflix original starring Zoey Deutch and Glen Powell as Harper and Charlie, … Continue reading Movie Review: Set It Up

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Movie Review: The Big Sick

The Big Sick movie poster

I know! It’s summer! That’s robots punching robots time, not super tiny independent rom-com time! YET HERE WE ARE. The Big Sick is a mostly autobiographical film about Kumail Najiani, a Pakistani-American standup comic and actor (Silicon Valley, Franklin and Bash), and how he met his wife, Emily Gordon. While they were dating, Emily got incredibly and mysteriously sick, and was put into a medically induced coma for several weeks. (She recovered! That’s why they … Continue reading Movie Review: The Big Sick