This summer has been quite cruel (thanks, Taylor Swift) because of the heat index, and we must take appropriate precautions to protect ourselves from heat stroke.On the flip side, we still need Vitamin D from the sun, and our mental wellbeing also benefits from nature.A growing body of research supports that exposure to nature improves
Gina Rodriguez once again charms as an everywoman in “Not Dead Yet,” a sitcom about an obituary writer, Nell, who sees the dead people she writes about.Image: IMDB/Not Dead YetTalk about a dead-end job if there was one (no pun intended).She didn’t sign up for having to see and interact with dead people. Doesn’t exactly
As faith-based films go, “Redeeming Love” is not your usual family-friendly fare, as it is rated R16 and for good reason. It is a period romance between a bright-eyed, faithful farmer and the town’s most famous prostitute.Forget “Pretty Woman.”Forget “An Officer and A Gentleman.” This is a love story for the ages.Image: IMDB/Redeeming LoveOur heroine
I wanted to like this supposedly empowering twist on the token damsel in distress more than I actually did, but you can still squeeze some valuable Women’s Month lessons out of it.Image: IMDB/Damsel (2024)This International Women’s Day, Netflix dropped its latest offering, “Damsel,” starring Millie Bobby Brown of “Stranger Things” and “Enola” fame, one of
SPOILER ALERT: ElementalBased on its initial box office returns, Elemental didn’t immediately find its footing, compared to previous Pixar blockbusters. But a few weeks in and it was considered a sleeper hit. While it received a slow-burn reception and mixed reviews (some harsher than others, given the stellar track record and sky-high expectations of Pixar), it
It’s nearly the end of January… and if your New Year’s Resolution has survived up to this point, congratulations!If you keep at it until February, you’ve already outlasted roughly 80% of those that made them.It’s normal to come into the new year supremely hyped to make changes to our old routines, determined to reach our
“There’s a natural goodness built into us all. We can step across that line into evil, or not.” – Lucy Gray Baird (The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes (film))For fans of the behemoth film and book series “The Hunger Games,” its prequel couldn’t come soon enough. For non-fans or those who have
TRIGGER WARNING: Domestic ViolenceSPOILER ALERT: This contains major spoilers for “It Ends With Us,” a novel by Colleen Hoover.October is punctuated by the celebration of Halloween the world over, and it is also the awareness month for a lesser known, real-life horror: domestic violence.While there may be a lot of romance novels revolving around toxic
This ad by Netflix was the most interesting line in the entire movie. Unfortunately, it wasn’t in the movie.Not even the combined star power of Gal Gadot as the titular Rachel Stone and Jamie Dornan as Agent Parker (in yet another role as a toxic, beautiful man), could make me take this film seriously.Image: IMDB/Heart
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