‘Malcolm & Marie’: A Promising Premise With Disappointing Results
Sam Levinson's latest film can't keep up with the excellence of its performances.

Martin and Charly spend their time making rap music. One night they find a loaded gun on a hill, while Sol searches for her lost dog. Although apparently unrelated, these stories are intimately linked, forming a portrait of teenagers in their difficult passage to adulthood.
Sam Levinson's latest film can't keep up with the excellence of its performances.
Presenting a bold and unapologetic narrative focused on strong Muslim female characters, the show beautifully incorporates punk rock as a feminist movement in their lives.
The Sandman features a plethora of LGBTQ+ characters and is openly expressive about it!
The plot could’ve really been interesting if the elements of lycanthropy was integrated with perhaps the struggle of identity of being LGBTQ+. It's an experience for so many that as they’re starting to realizing their true selves, they feel like a monster, especially if they come from unsupportive homes or communities. Instead, the horror and transformation elements seem thrown in without contemplation of how this could deepen the narrative.
With This is Us now on its fifth season and A Million Little Things on its third, we have a lot of material to entertain the hypothetical: if these two shows got in the ring together, who would come out victorious? Despite the endless recognition for the former’s success, I dare say I’d put my money on A Million Little Things once all is said and done.
Alfred Hitchcock’s 1960 film "Pyscho" is an American film classic that still resonates today.