Film Critics United

  Christmas in the Spotlight (2024) - Lifetime Oh, I see what they're doing here. Famous pop star dating a professional football player? You gotta get up pretty early in the morning to pull one over my eyes, brother. Though I must admit, someone making a movie about that Ciara/Russell Wilson romance took me by surprise. Say hello to Bowyn Sykes (Jessica Lord), the world's biggest pop star, on the set of her latest music video, which she is also directing. Dressed like a slutty elf, she sings a song about how she doesn't need a man or some nonsense along those lines. I must give Jessica Lord some credit here because this young lady has truly mastered the art of moving her body in interesting ways through the space allotted. Her manager, Mira (Jeannie Mai Jenkins), implores her to stop making songs about not needing a man because she's in a movie where the only reason for its existence is getting a man! Across the country somewhere, I really can't remember the cit...

  Hot Frosty (2024) - Netflix I must admit that this movie "Hot Frosty" wasn't on my list of movies to watch this year, despite the fact it stars the queen of these movies.  And make no mistake, the queen isn't Candace or Alicia or Tatiana or Danica or Tia nor Tamera—it's Lacey Chabert. Those other ladies are certainly in the queen's court, but they all must pay homage to the true queen. But then I started reading some things about this movie, kind of taking the internet by storm, this little holiday romance film. I mean, Ryan did a Pitch Meeting on this movie, and I even saw a post calling "Hot Frosty" the dumbest holiday movie ever! Well, those are some strong words, my friend, and now I have to watch this film for myself to see if it is, indeed, the dumbest holiday movie ever made. TLDR: It is not. Kathy (Chabert) wakes up one morning to a freezing cold house, steps over a broken stair, empties a bucket catching the drips from the ceiling, and hea...