Kaley Cuoco carries the confused (and confusing) ‘Meet Cute’

Romantic comedies are deceptively difficult to pull off. There's a lighter-than-air quality to rom-coms. Done badly it either comes off as trite and insignificant or forced and labored. Alex Lehman's Meet Cute struggles in trying to build and innovate on the genre by introducing some disparate elements, including fantasy and rather dark drama. Ultimately, Meet...

The Barbed Comedy-Drama of ‘Hannah and Her Sisters’

Hannah and Her Sisters is one of Woody Allen's most important films, combining his genius of comedy and his obsession with Bergman drama. The film is Allen at his best, able to mine comedy and heartfelt drama by highlighting a dysfunctional family's messy life. Hannah and Her Sisters looks at infidelity, marriage, friendship, family, and...

Valerie Bertinelli’s cooking show was a surprising classic of the genre

Valerie Bertinelli wasn't the first celebrity to headline her own cooking show, but her show, Valerie's Home Cooking (2015-2023) is the best of the star-led culinary programme. For fourteen seasons, Bertinelli simultaneously charmed, entertained, and educated her audiences, sharing fun, delicious recipes. When she announced that the fourteenth season would be the show's final season,...

The Most Dazzling Part of ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’ Is Its Big Heart

Everything Everywhere All at Once is reportedly the most-awarded movie in film history. At the 95th Academy Awards, it won seven of its eleven nominations, sweeping the acting categories and winning the coveted Best Picture Award and Best Director for Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert (otherwise known as the Daniels). After viewing the film even once,...