Once in a while you come across a film where it is nearly impossible to spoil this movie. Karate Kid: Legends is exactly what you’d expect it to be. We know this story: a fish out of water kid meets a girl and a bully, learns martial arts with some odd training gimmick, and finds … Read more

“Happiness in simplicity can be achieved with a flexible mindset and nine hours sleep each night.” ~Dalai Lama It happened again. I got up after being awake all night, wondering where I’d gone for the past nine hours. I remember laying my head on the pillow, exhausted, happy to finally close my burning eyes. My … Read more

If you’re trying to get the ball rolling on having more creative conversations with… How long does it take to learn English? It depends on the way you learn it. Some English-learning methods are so effective that you can quickly start speaking English at work, in school, or around town. If you’d like to learn … Read more

Discover how to learn English in nine straightforward steps, from setting goals to immersing yourself in the English language. How long does it take to learn English? It depends on the way you learn it. Some English-learning methods are so effective that you can quickly start speaking English at work, in school, or around town. … Read more

Warning: contains spoilers for The Handmaid’s Tale series finale. Finale? More like DVD Extra. The cast of a once-unmissable show reunited one last time for a series of watery-eyed goodbyes and I love yous. 55 minutes of June trundling around a recently liberated Boston remembering things and having feelings? The Handmaid’s Tale hasn’t delivered a more inessential episode since … Read more

King of Ashes Giveaway  Flatiron Books is giving away five copies of S.A. Cosby’s newest Godfather-inspired Southern crime saga, King of Ashes on Instagram.  Cosby, who is an award-winning, New York Times bestselling author, returns with a biting family drama that follows Roman Carruthers, who must return home after his father is involved in a … Read more

The news: everything is bad. Poets: okay, but what if everything is bad and we still fall in love with the moon and learn something from the flowers. ~Nikita Gill My dad died when I was thirty-one. I wasn’t a child but barely felt like an adult. He had reached retirement, but only just. Mary … Read more

Titans of industry cannot come to terms. Despite the literal gap between them being a matter of feet—maybe 30 or so by my count—when their two locomotives come to a standstill in a tunnel with miles of track in either direction, Zsa-zsa Korda (Benicio del Toro, tyrannical, avuncular) is unable to bridge the final inches … Read more

We’re not sure if he chose to accept it intentionally or not, but Tom Cruise has cleared his mission in providing movie theaters with a healthy opening weekend against Disney’s bizarre, Elvis-loving alien for the second time in 23 years. Yep, more than two decades after Cruise shared the same opening frame with the animated … Read more

The Mission: Impossible franchise is built on intense Tom Cruise stares, convoluted plot twists and reveals, and incredible stunts. It is not, however, built on compelling stories. Most of the Mission movies are about rogue agents and ill-defined MacGuffins, a repetition that would be annoying if anyone cared about the plots. However, lack of plot … Read more