Author: Kasey Butcher

My husband is from Chicago, so I did not exactly have to twist his arms into watching The Bear, Hulu’s show about an Italian beef shop, but the show was even better than we expected. . . Read More

This week, I watched two family-friendly movies that involve harrowing feats and a whole lot of water. Although Thirteen Lives is not suitable for the youngest family members, it provides a much better story than The Sea Beast does. . . Read More

Netflix’s Hello, Goodbye and Everything in Between follows the rise and decline of a senior year love using more montages than I knew was possible. I was once a young person, and even then, I’m not sure I would have liked this movie. . . Read More

In an entertainment landscape comprised of so many remakes and reboots, it is refreshing when a remake has a new perspective to offer on an old story. Father of the Bride, the remake of the 1991 film starring Steve Martin, leans less on the sentimentality . . . Read More

In 2002, I wrote my first film review for The Waynedale News. A year away from a driver’s license and from my little sister’s birth, I was a sophomore in high school and, although I would never willingly go back to that age, there are still things . . . Read More

I have reviewed several lackluster romantic comedies recently, so when I sat down for The Lost City, I did not get my hopes up. The new movie starring Sandra Bullock and Channing Tatum did not disappoint and satisfied my craving for a good old-fashioned . . . Read More

Amazon’s recent specialty seems to be wasting meet-cutes. In Book of Love, English author Henry Copper (Sam Claflin) is sent to Mexico on a promotional tour of his book, where the dull novel has unexpectedly large sales. . . Read More

The Netflix Original Series Inventing Anna follows reporter Vivian Kent (Anna Chlumsky) as she strives to cover the rise and fall of Anna Sorokin, a.k.a. Anna Delvey (Julia Garner), the “fake heiress” who took elite members of New York’s business . . . Read More

Sometimes it feels like if you’ve read one psychological thriller from the last few years you’ve read them all. The same tropes pop up repeatedly—the full wine glasses, the dark pasts not disclosed at a therapist’s office, the disturbing events . . . Read More

Scream (1996) is my favorite scary movie, and I would be thrilled to have a new installment every decade as long as Neve Cambell and Courteney Cox are willing to come back. . . Read More

I set out to review all the new Christmas movies on streaming services this year, but I ran into some snags. First, Hulu opted for a holiday reality show instead of a movie. . . Read More

In theaters and on HBO Max, King Richard tells the story of the early career of Venus Williams (Saniyya Sidney) and Serena Williams (Demi Singleton), driven to success by their ambitious, devoted, overbearing father, Richard (Will Smith). . . Read More

Red Notice is Netflix’s biggest, most-expensive movie ever, reportedly costing $200 million to produce after studio changes, scheduling conflicts, and moving most filming to a soundstage in Atlanta because of the pandemic. . . Read More

Before jumping into my review, I would like to first speak out about the slander against bees that takes place in the Candyman movies. A swarm of bees is not aggressive. . . Read More

There are multiple ways to measure the value of a movie. Of course, there’s artistic quality, but there is also something to be said for a movie that gets people talking. . . Read More

Mysteries set at luxury destinations seem to be the trend of the summer. Over the last few weeks, I checked out two shows set at fancy resorts, The White Lotus and Nine Perfect Strangers, and a somewhat more grounded mystery in a New York high-rise, . . . Read More

I think a children’s movie is about the only context in which it is acceptable to use a jungle raccoon’s bandana to wipe your eyes. I don’t know what it says about me that that was the part of Vivo that I found the hardest to suspend my disbelief . . . Read More