From Perfect Match to Champions, Should You Add These To Your Watchlist?
From Perfect Matches to true blue Friends, we’re talking about new movies and shows and if they’re worth the watch.
Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
Marvel's Phase 5 kicks off with Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, but does it live up to the hype?
Between Paul Rudd and Jonathan Majors, you have a great cast that gets lost in an overstuffed story. It struggles tonally to balance the humor and darker action scenes. It feels more like a setup for the next movie or the next Loki episode versus actually exploring the family and story that we have here. There's no emotional connections, so many of the characters just didn't get enough screen time, and the goals of what they're setting up with Kang feel too abstract. It seems that there are too many Marvel projects dropping right now to the point that it’s become overwhelming to keep up with and the quality is starting to suffer.
Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania is playing in theaters.
Champions
In the new sports comedy Champions, Woody Harrelson plays a jaded basketball coach who feels like he should be further along in his career than he really is. Because of that, he has a short temper that ends up getting him in trouble. He gets community service working with the Friends, which is a special needs basketball group who are competing to go to the Special Olympics.
I enjoyed that the film didn’t fall into stereotypes when it came to working with actors with disabilities. They’re the ones teaching Harrelson life lessons about getting close to people and forming real personal connections. There’s a bit of crude humor, but it’s a really heartfelt and feel-good movie that many people will enjoy.
Champions hits theaters on March 10.
Perfect Match
Netflix’s hottest singles from Too Hot To Handle, Love Is Blind, The Circle, The Ultimatum, The Mole, Selling Tampa, and more return for a new dating competition in Perfect Match. Hosted by Nick Lachey, the former cast members are brought together to find love in a tropical paradise.
Netflix has found a surefire hit that brings together their biggest players from other shows. It is absolutely addicting and the definition of mindless reality television that you can’t help but keep watching. If they move forward with a second season, I’d love to see them address gameplay issues to encourage contestants to truly get to know potential matches and increase inclusivity. Based on this first season, contestants seem more focused on clout than truly finding love, which may or may not work for some viewers.
Perfect Match is streaming on Netflix.
We Have A Ghost
In Netflix’s We Have A Ghost, a family finds out their new home is haunted by a ghost named Ernest. Footage of him turns them all into overnight social media sensations, but they become the target of the CIA when they try to uncover Ernest’s mysterious past.
Unfortunately they don’t know what to do with this interesting concept and star-studded cast of David Harbour, Anthony Mackie, and Jennifer Coolidge. The film is uneven, full of plot holes, and entirely too long.
We Have A Ghost is streaming on Netflix.
