Category: Film

If you were to drain the weird juice from Netflix’s original series  “Maniac,” “Black Mirror”, extract the pulp from  Michel Gondry’s “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” add a dash of The Beatles’ “Strawberry Fields Forever” and a scoop of hallucinogenic plot-laced bananas, you might come up with  something close to “Strawberry Mansion.”

And one hell of a brain ache induced by the dizzying, genre-defying romance sci-fi film created by Albert Birney and Kentucker Audley. 

Fall is undoubtedly the best time of year, well at least to me. I mean, who doesn’t love the end of summer? Seriously, if you’re one of those weirdos who like the heat and getting sand in your crotch at the beach, you can stop reading. I’ll wait. Like I said, fall is the best season. It’s a time where Pumpkin Spice Lattes are re-introduced for the white girls, Black folks like myself can start prepping for our Thanksgiving sweet potato pies, and sports junkies can start packing on the pounds with hot wings and Pabst Blue Ribbon for football, I guess?  But more importantly, fall is home to my favorite holiday, Halloween. And since it coincides with National Hispanic Heritage Month, I ventured out to find which streaming services out of the four horsemen: Disney Plus, Netflix, Hulu, and HBO Max.  Coming in at over 20+ Hispanic/Latinx films, HBO Max was the clear winner.

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2011 saw the release of the independent downtrodden comedy ‘Swinging with the Finkels’ come and go–probably because of the odd title–and then revive itself on Netflix. After months of passing it by and then flippantly adding it to my Netflix queue, I finally broke down and decided to give it a chance.

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