Tag Archives: Melissa Barrera

Your Monster review — Charming but confused genre mash-up

October 23, 2024 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by Caroline Lindy | 103 min | ▲▲▲△△ | VOD New Yorker and musical theatre actor Laura (Melissa Barrera) has just had cancer surgery. The timing's bad: she and her boyfriend, Jacob (Edmund Donovan) have been working on an original musical theatre project. Even worse, Jacob dumps Laura while she's in her… Read More

Scream (2022) review — The good, the bad, and the bloody

January 21, 2022 flawintheiris

Directed by Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett | Written by James Vanderbilt and Guy Busick | 114 min |▲▲▲△△ | VOD There's something to be admired in a franchise that starts as a tight trilogy over four years, goes on hiatus for a decade, returns for a better-than-it-needed-to-be fourth entry, and then takes another decade… Read More

In The Heights review — The musical as a joy delivery machine

June 10, 2021 flawintheiris

Directed by Jon M Chu | Written by Quiara Alegría Hudes and Lin-Manuel Miranda, based on their musical stage play | 143 min | Crave Plus, On Demand Lin-Manuel Miranda's earlier, somewhat less famous musical finds its way to the movies, and a big screen is what it deserves. This is a huge production, full… Read More