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Screen Speck’s Best New Shows of 2024

Whether they premiered in January or September, the Screen Speck team is here to honor our favorites.

TIFF 2024 Roundup

I saw over 30 movies, so I wrote a review roundup of my most-loved or middling watches.

When the Carbon Copy Outshines the Original: ‘Gladiator II'(REVIEW)

Gladiator II whisks its audience away to the past while reflecting on the present and future.

‘9-1-1’ Season 8 Episode 8: If You Wannabe(s) My Captain

On 9-1-1, Season 8, Episode 8, “Wannabes,” the show ends the first half of the season with several storylines wrapped up and others just beginning.

‘Wicked’ Defies Expectations Ostentatiously with Part I (REVIEW)

In essence, the film has the influential momentum of Avengers: Infinity War… but for musical theater nerds. It starts with the intrinsically recognizable overture of Stephen Schwartz’s stage production. Instantly, it transports the viewer to a world of possibilities mixed with new and familiar sights.

‘9-1-1’ Season 8 Episode 7: Hotshots (And Some Gunshots)

9-1-1 season 8 episode 7, “Hotshots,” is not an unserious, silly episode but instead forces both the viewers and characters to question things they thought they knew. The episode begins at a jewelry shop that’s being robbed by several people with guns in masks—except, wait, it’s a sting! Everyone in there is a cop, including […]

Hold Up! Time Out!: Non-Black Minorities in the Films of Spike Lee

Black identity is a theme in nearly every Spike Lee film in some way or another, but the critical and popular conception of his work seems to only care about that particular aspect. However, the issues he’s interested in aren’t limited to Blackness, as Blackness does not exist in a cultural vacuum.