Okay I’m going to out myself as a Dog Man stan. Not the movie, the books. Technically my kid is the stan but I’ve read each of these books to him before bed for the past year or so and I’ve become fully invested. You’d be surprised how much genuine heart there is wedged between the potty humor and flip-o-ramas. 
The film does a pretty good job of capturing this sincerity in a tidy runtime and it’s quite a fun…

An incredible cast giving excellent performances in a film that unfolds in the least interesting way possible & feels incredibly stale & limited in its message. I hate to say this, because genuinely there is so much potential here, but this concept feels so wasted. 

It’s not that the film isn’t enjoyable enough, it’s a fun time as long as you don’t think too hard. It’s just that the subject of all the ways women are objectified and dehumanized and the ways…

The early buzz for this is very confusing to me. While I appreciate that many of Jlo’s best talents are on display here, the film doesn’t really ask much from her other than looking absolutely gorgeous & singing & dancing well enough. I really don’t mean to undermine any of what she does achieve. She looks incredible in every scene and she is quite charming but the role itself is inherently limiting. 

As a musical, this doesn’t really work for me. There’s…

The tragedy that is the violence against & erasure of women in Mexico is so hard to conceptualize fully. It’s so immense and seemingly insurmountable. I’m fascinated by the use of color here. The way it immediately communicates the loss of innocence, the loss of joy, the loss of self. What meaningful difference is there between the woman who remain and the women who are taken? How should we exist in this world that seems to care so little about whether…