YouTube TV costs $82.99/month in 2025—making it one of the priciest live TV streaming services. Is it still worth it? I break down the pros, cons, and whether the Entertainment Plus bundle adds real value. Read on for my full review.
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Kenneth Branagh’s 2017 adaptation of Murder on the Orient Express is a lavish, star-studded return to one of the most famous whodunits ever written. With its snowy landscapes, opulent train cars, and an ensemble cast that reads like a Hollywood roll call, the film promised a modern revival of Agatha Christie’s classic mystery. But is it worth watching? Read my review to find out.
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On September 16, 2025, the world lost Robert Redford at the age of 89. Actor, director, activist, and founder of the Sundance Institute, Redford’s career spanned six decades and reshaped both Hollywood and independent cinema. Yet for many, his most indelible role remains the one that first catapulted him into stardom: the Sundance Kid, opposite Paul Newman’s Butch Cassidy, in George Roy Hill’s 1969 classic Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.
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Some films entertain you for two hours and fade from memory. Others stay with you for decades, weaving themselves into your personal history. For me, Tootsie is firmly in the latter category—a film I can revisit endlessly and still find something new to admire.
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When Kenneth Branagh returned to the director’s chair — and to Hercule Poirot’s iconic mustache — for Death on the Nile (2022), audiences were invited aboard a lavish Egyptian river cruise where love, betrayal, and greed simmered beneath the surface. Based on Agatha Christie’s 1937 novel, this film is both a sequel to Murder on the Orient Express (2017) and a standalone whodunit, offering a fresh take on one of Christie’s most famous mysteries.
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When it comes to early ’90s action comedies, Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot stands out — not for critical acclaim, but for the sheer audacity of pairing Sylvester Stallone with Estelle Getty in a buddy-cop setup no one saw coming. Directed by Roger Spottiswoode and released in 1992, the film promised high-octane laughs but delivered something closer to a cinematic curiosity.
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When The Specialist hit theaters in 1994, it promised a heady mix of sultry noir, high-stakes revenge, and explosive action. Directed by Luis Llosa and loosely based on John Shirley’s novels, the film pairs Sylvester Stallone’s brooding bomb expert with Sharon Stone’s enigmatic femme fatale in a Miami-set tale of vengeance.
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If you took every ’80s sports drama cliché, threw it into a duffel bag alongside a trucker’s cap, a power ballad, and a gallon of cinematic sincerity, you’d get Over the Top—Sylvester Stallone’s strange, lovable ode to competitive arm wrestling and family redemption.
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If the ‘90s taught us anything, it’s that family adventure movies knew how to deliver heart, humor, and just the right amount of nightmare fuel. Joe Johnston’s Jumanji, released in December 1995, is a prime example — a film that asked, What if a board game didn’t just entertain you, but rewrote your reality with every roll of the dice?
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When Hook premiered in 1991, it invited audiences back to Neverland — but with a twist. Instead of the eternal boy we’d left flying with Tinkerbell, we meet a Peter Pan who has traded sword fights for boardrooms, and adventure for airline schedules. Steven Spielberg takes J.M. Barrie’s timeless myth and reimagines it as a story about memory, responsibility, and rediscovering joy.
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