Kung Fu Panda 4 is a karate-packed animated tale bursting with humor, heart, and dumplings. It’s beautifully animated with inventive, family-friendly action that delivers a knockout visual punch. With loveable and hilarious characters, it’s a journey into new worlds with thoughtful wisdom for this beloved franchise. The story of Kung Fu Panda 4 Po (Jack Black) is as happy as a panda
Read MoreWith where the world is currently, sometimes the only medicine is laughter. When everything feels so chaotic, turning on a comedy helps to remove yourself from it all. However, some forms of comedy decide to face the problems of the world head-on, using satire to make people chuckle, instead of cry. Satire is difficult to pull off well, but HBO has
Read MoreI watch a ton of films and movies. Shocking, I know. Before becoming a writer for The Cosmic Circus, I loved consuming as much media as possible. When I first got my DVR, my family and I would make lists of shows to record, watching as much as possible. We would take monthly trips to the theater, if not more, which
Read MoreDrive-Away Dolls, the latest venture by filmmaker Ethan Coen and partner Tricia Cooke, comes by its R rating honestly. The lesbian comedy is not a kids or family movie by any means, and has a lot of sex. But it is funny, and while it’s definitely a road trip movie, it crosses genres into the rom-com lane matter-of-factly and ends up raunchily endearing. (I’m
Read MoreApple TV+ continues to astound me with its hidden gems (as I patiently wait for a second season of Severance). I’m so delighted to have been allowed to screen the entire season of The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin. Noel Fielding is an absolute comedy genius who’s been on my screen since I was a teenager, staying up late for
Read MoreA new adult animated show has dropped on Prime Video! If you like medical procedurals à la Grey’s Anatomy with the zany atmosphere of shows like Inside Job or Rick and Morty, you’ll want to check out Prime’s The Second Best Hospital in the Galaxy. Based in an alien hospital, this show follows two genius surgeons as they work to make
Read MoreSeason 3 of Ghosts premiered on Thursday on CBS, and there’s a lot of unwelcome change around Sam and Jay’s inherited disaster of a dream house turned bed and breakfast. Continue on for my thoughts on this CBS comedy! [Warning: There are spoilers ahead for Ghosts season 3. Turn back or risk getting banished to the basement!] Death comes knocking in
Read MoreImagine a movie that combines Tron, Guardians of the Galaxy, and, somehow, When Harry Met Sally. Once the image of the film appears, add astral projections, cults, cosmic gods, and interdimensional trash planets. For most filmmakers, throwing this number of fantastic concepts into one film would be too much luggage. But Michael Lukk Litwak’s writing and direction in Molli and Max
Read MoreSometimes life doesn’t quite go the way we’ve planned. I think this is a sentiment that we can all relate to at one point or another. Perhaps you thought you’d go to law school and headed into teaching instead. Maybe that relationship you thought would last forever ended abruptly, thrusting your life into another direction. These are just two examples, but
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