'The Resort': Five Perfect Minutes and Countless Missed Opportunities
The Resort has an excellent climax surrounded by disappointments. Somehow, at a mere 75 minutes, this movie still manages to be 70 minutes too long.

Dark-skinned Stella was adopted as a baby, but before she gets married, she wants to meet her birth mother. However, the first meeting is a shock: her mother Beate is a white redneck who sits at the supermarket checkout and secretly drinks Piccolo from a bottle. Apart from that, she doesn't really feel the need to get to know her daughter. But Stella is not put off by her brusque manner.
The Resort has an excellent climax surrounded by disappointments. Somehow, at a mere 75 minutes, this movie still manages to be 70 minutes too long.
Michael Shanks’ Together is a queasy, hilarious, and surprisingly heartfelt body-horror trip that fuses love and terror in the most literal sense. Starring real-life couple Dave Franco and Alison Brie, this midnight gem twists Plato’s soulmate myth into a gory, darkly funny tale of codependency, cults, and chainsaws — equal parts romance and nightmare.
This inspiring true story falls nothing short of filling the audience with a passion to strive for their wildest dreams.
If your upbringing was anything like mine, where the TV acted as an additional parent- there are so many new stories and perspectives to explore.
In honor of AANHPI Month, let's celebrate Filipina-American pop star Olivia Rodrigo and her love of horror movies.