Super excited to share this news! Thank you to everyone at the Brightside Film Festival in Jersey City! Congrats to Joe Kramer, Christian Sarkis Graham and the entire team behind Higher Grounds!

At the time Margaret Atwood’s novel about a dystopian future was published, it seemed as though the world depicted in The Handmaid’s Tale was simply a grim look at an alternate reality. “This is what might occur if ‘the wrong people’ take over; fortunately we don’t have to worry about it.” I don’t know if that thought holds true today.

Okay, I’ll admit, I’ve fallen behind on some reviews, and I’ve watched a lot since December. So here’s a lightening round of quick reviews I wrote for a bunch of things I’ve watched since then.

During the COVID-19 quarantine, three friends and I decided to make a weekly ritual of watching critically panned movies. The only criteria being that they had to have really low Metacritic and Rotten Tomatoes scores. And with that, hilarity ensued as the four of us texted each other in a group text and mocked the movies we watched together. So far, we’ve watched Blank Check, Mortal Kombat, Bloodsport, Sidekicks, No Holds Barred, The Main Event, Countdown (2016), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III, Batman & Robin, You (the Netflix series), and Gotti.