SpyxFamily Code: White

Picking up where SpyxFamily’s second season left off, Anya Forger is assigned to cook a delicious treat for the principal in a cooking competition. If she wins, she’ll earn a Stella star. If she earns ’em all, her adopted father, Loid (a spy posing as a psychiatrist) will get a chance to get close to […]

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Love Actually

After “Bridget Jones’s Diary” earned praise and became a commercial hit, Richard Curtis (Four Weddings and a Funeral, Mr. Bean, About Time) worked on his next project. An ensemble romantic Christmas comedy influenced by Robert Altman’s work on ensemble casts as the main focus of story. Nearly every single character interconnected. This time, it’s a […]

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L.A. Confidential

In 1990, crime novelist, James Ellroy published a novel titled, “L.A. Confidential.” The third installment of a book series, “L.A. Quartet” takes place in the early 1950s following three detectives with distinctive personalities. Ed Exley, Bud White & Jack Vincennes investigate a string of murders in the underbelly of Los Angeles filled with sin and […]

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Kill Bill

After Quentin “QT” Tarantino (one of my all-time favorite filmmakers) directed his third film, “Jackie Brown,” he resumed development of a script title he and Uma Thurman were working on since their first collaboration in “Pulp Fiction.” Without nothing on their plate, they brainstormed ideas for “Kill Bill” fleshing out Uma’s character known as “The […]

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Slither (Universal’s Flops Vol. 1 #11)

After writing scripts for “Tromeo and Juliet, “The Specials,” the live-action “Scooby-Doo” movie, its sequel and Zack Snyder’s “Dawn of the Dead” remake, James “JG” Gunn worked on his directorial debut known as, “Slither.” A throwback to ’80s body horror films starring Nathan Fillion as a small-town sheriff who must find a way to put […]

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Classics Review: The Birds

In 1952, English novelist, Daphne du Maurier published a book a of short stories titled, “The Apple Stories.” One of them known as “The Birds,” is about a farmer and his family must endure a swarm of deadly birds attack people. 12 Years Later, Alfred Hitchcock loosely adapted it into a full-length film with Tippi […]

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