Worth the Wait: Movie Review

Tonally-wrong dramedy about boring relationships.

Worth the Wait is a multi-relationship dramedy with intertwining stories. All of the main characters are Asian-American with relationship problems. It’s great representation as there are no stereotypes to be found. There are also no interesting characters to be found, and to make it worse, the better actors have awful characters including some typecasting. The film also struggles with juggling between comedy and drama – attempts at silly comedy back-to-back with grief-stricken scenes of tragedy. Relationship dramedies are not supposed to be this hard to watch.		2025 Directed by: Tom Lin Screenplay by: Maggie Hartmans, Dan Mark, Rachel Tan Starring: Lana Condor, Ross Butler

Love in the Clouds: Movie Review

Stupid, soulless, boring and illogical.

The star of Hallmark movies is almost always the romance, when a lovely relationship develops between two mature and thoughtful adults. But when the rest of the movie is a soulless, bland, boring, illogical, immoral, and a completely thoughtless adventure in nonsense, it’s impossible to get swept up by the love between a reporter and a hot air balloon pilot.		2025 Directed by: Larry A. McLean Screenplay by: Lisa Hepner Starring: McKenzie Westmore, Paul Greene

Greek Mothers Never Die: Movie Review

A comedy about Greek mothers and daughters and their ghosts.

Greek Mothers Never Die is an indie rom com, turned comedy, turned fantasy, turned drama about grief and tragedy, turned musical. Or something like that, with a few coming-of-age themes thrown in for good measure. It’s mostly well produced indie production that knows the story it wants to tell but at the same time needs way too many ideas to tell that story. A story about Greek mothers and daughters and boyfriends and ghosts.		2025 Directed by: Rachel Suissa Screenplay by: Rachel Suissa Starring: Abby Miner, Simon Rérolle, and Rachel Suissa

Bad Influence (AKA: Mala Influencia): Movie Review

Could have been sexy and romantic, instead it’s campy and stupid.

What we have here is an “opposites-sides-of-the-tracks” romance, which typically works much better as romantic dramedy, and could theoretically work as an erotic thriller that Bad Influence is aiming for. When it works, it’s a sexy, intriguing romance. When it doesn’t work, it’s an over-wrought campy thriller with an under-developed screenplay, tacky editing, and poorly written characters. And man, I really wanted this to work.		2025 Directed by: Chloé Wallace Screenplay by: Chloé Wallace, Diana Muro Starring: Alberto Olmo, Eléa Rochera

Off the Record: Movie Review

A slow and poorly focused music drama eventually comes into its own.

Off the Record is the type of movie that could do very poorly with a misperception of its genre. A quick glance at the poster, plot summary and the cast – Ryan Hansen and Rainey Qualley (sister of current it-girl Margaret Qualley) – and one is entering the movie mistakenly assuming it’s a music industry romantic comedy. A costly mistake since this is absolutely not a comedy, but a drama warning about the misogynistic, cut-throat dangers of the music industry hiding amongst the dangers of an abusive relationship.		2024 Directed by: Kirsten Foe Screenplay by: Kirsten Foe Starring: Rainey Qualley, Ryan Hansen