We Broke Up: Movie Review

Solid comedy and simplistic drama.

We Broke Up has a very simplistic premise: a young couple break up before a wedding they’re both attending and decide to pretend they’re still together. The potential for comedy is obvious, and it works. The film starts quick and light with jokes involving Lori and Doug’s break-up, disagreements about who gets to attend the wedding, and then we arrive to meet the happy-go-lucky bride, the insane groom, and the disapproving mother. All game for providing more laughs.		2021 Directed by: Jeff Rosenberg Screenplay by: Jeff Rosenberg, Laura Jacqmin Starring: Aya Cash and William Harper Jackson

Night Shift: Movie Review

Random unfunny chaos of idiot brothers being idiots.

Night Shift takes a long time for the narrative to start taking a logical form, and by that point the random chaos has just driven the movie boring and pointless. I think (I’m guessing here because the weird cuts to random scenes to open the movie doesn’t help anything) the point is that these brothers are feeling lost, do not know how to deal with death, and are finally at the do something or lose everything stage.		2021 Directed by: Joey Menzel Screenplay by: Joey Menzel Starring: Jesse Morton, Anthony Winnick