

Review: Cobra Kai - Season 1-3 (2018-2021)
Official Synopsis: Thirty four years after events of the 1984 All Valley Karate Tournament, a down-and-out Johnny Lawrence seeks redemption by reopening the infamous Cobra Kai dojo, reigniting his rivalry with a now successful Daniel LaRusso. For anyone that watched Karate Kid while growing up, Cobra Kai is nonstop nostalgia galore. From various flashbacks to the films to sobering memorials of Mr. Miyagi, Cobra Kai has it all! They even film parts of it at the Miyagi dojo f


Review: The Queen's Gambit (2020)
Official Synopsis: Set during the Cold War era, orphaned chess prodigy Beth Harmon struggles with addiction in a quest to become the greatest chess player in the world. This series was fantastic! Queen's Gambit is mesmerizing and intelligent. Its hard to capture the intensity for such a cerebral game and yet The Queen's Gambit accomplishes it without sacrificing much in terms of accuracy. It doesn't seek to dumb down the game for the general audience but instead offers rea


Review: Emily in Paris - Season 1 (2020)
Official Synopsis: Chicago marketing executive Emily Cooper is hired to provide an American perspective at a marketing firm in Paris. Emily in Paris is a show about a naive young woman being thrown into an unfamiliar setting. With Darren Star as the creator, this show reminded me a lot of Sex and the City. It focuses a lot on her romantic adventures as she struggles to fit into her new environment. It romanticizes life in Paris while gently reinforcing every single French


Review: The Old Guard (2020)
Official Synopsis: A group of mercenaries, all centuries-old immortals with the ability to heal themselves, discover someone is onto their secret, and they must fight to protect their freedom. Although unfamiliar with the original source material, The Old Guard proved to be pretty entertaining. It doesn't become clear until very late in the film what the purpose of this group of immortals is. They just seem to spend most of the movie as cynical lazy demigods that have becom