Author: Kasey Butcher

I waited, mostly patiently, for years for the second Wonder Woman movie to be released. It got pushed back repeatedly due to COVID-19 and finally was released on Christmas simultaneously through HBO Max and in theaters. The triumphant previews ... Read more

Netflix’s newest romantic comedy, Love, Guaranteed, leans heavily on conventions of the genre, but is so fun that I forgive its clichés. In the movie, Rachel Leigh Cook plays Susan, a lawyer with a heart of gold who takes the case of Nick (Damon ... Read more

‘Tis the season for corny, cliched holiday movies, and I could not be more ready for it. This year, both Netflix and Hulu are offering plenty of options, some more delightful than others. ... Read more

I am a Wingnut. That is to say, a big fan of The West Wing, Aaron Sorkin’s drama about quixotic civil servants in a White House so earnest it makes my heart hurt a little. Naturally, I was excited to watch The Trial of the Chicago 7, a new drama written ... Read more

Gothic novels and adaptations of them are making a comeback this year—a trend that I wholeheartedly embrace. With the genre’s gloomy settings, antiheroes, and suspenseful plots, you would think it would be hard to go wrong, but Netflix’s ... Read more

At the beginning of the year, in the Before Times when movies were still coming out in theaters, I reviewed The Turning, a decent adaptation of one of my favorite books, The Turn of the Screw by Henry James. The new followup to last fall’s The Haunting ... Read more

Available on Amazon Prime, Radioactive tells the story of the innovative careers and passionate love story of Marie (Rosamund Pike) and Pierre Curie (Sam Riley). From the time they meet as Marie is struggling to find her place in the scientific ... Read more

Love in the Time of Corona, riffing off the great Gabriel Garcia Marquez novel Love in the Time of Cholera, is too perfect a title to not have been swooped up eventually. I was surprised to see Freeform nab it first. The increasingly saucy family-friendly ... Read more

I really miss going to the movie theater and I hope that soon the studios will be back with major releases—like Wonder Woman 1984—and we can go safely to see them. In the meantime, I have found it helpful that with streaming, if I watch a terrible ... Read more

One of the few good surprises of the year has been the announcement that Disney+ was releasing the film version of Hamilton in July of this year, instead of October 2021, as was planned. For the minimal cost of one month of the streaming service, ... Read more

I thought I was really scraping the bottom of the Netflix barrel when I agreed to watch Floor is Lava with my husband, but it turned out that the new game show, based on that game we played with our siblings when we were kids, is a lot of good, silly ... Read more

While many local theaters remain closed, our local arthouse theater, Cinema Center is offering a wide variety of films to watch at home, and a portion of the rental cost goes toward helping them come back when it is safe to do so. The movies are ... Read more

If you are wading through the sea of new content on Netflix, looking for something entertaining, but maybe a little less, well, Tiger King, I suggest two miniseries about incredible women: Unorthodox and Self Made. In the Netflix Original ... Read more

Are you still at home? I’m still at home, and thanks to several days of snow, I am starting to climb the walls. Around when the stay-at-home order was announced, I signed up for a trial of HBO Now so that I could watch the miniseries adapted from Stephen ... Read more

With so many streaming options at our fingertips, it is somehow still so easy to fall into a rut of watching the same shows every weekend. But how much SVU or Parks and Rec can I really watch? (Too much.) Thankfully, Netflix Originals provide a ... Read more

Now streaming on Netflix, Cheer runs for six, one hour-long episodes, following the Navarro College cheerleading team as they prepare to compete for their 14th national championship. The docuseries sheds light on the backstories of a handful ... Read more

Often in the current true crime boom, issues around criminal justice reform can get lost in all the stories about serial killers or compelling cases of wrongfully convicted men. Just Mercy features such a case but also puts it in the context ... Read more

I have been looking forward to doing the research for this column ever since Halloween. Here is your roundup of new Christmas movies streaming on Netflix for 2019. ... Read more

A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood tells the story of beloved children’s television host Fred Rogers (Tom Hanks) through the eyes of Esquire Magazine writer Lloyd Vogel (Matthew Rhys). With his personal and professional lives on the verge ... Read more