Tag: 2026

You, Me, & Tuscany (2026)

Post author By Mark A. Lester
Post date April 11, 2026
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At some point, Netflix has really cornered the market on rom coms (more quantity-wise, not entirely quality-wise).

With an infinite amount in their library, a fair amount of these Netflix original rom-coms also have to do with exotic travel (the most recent one I remember seeing was People We Meet on Vacation). Looking back, the last of this type I remember seeing in the theater (not including last year’s regrettable A Big Bold Beautiful Journey) was 2018’s Crazy Rich Asians. Sufficite to say, these varieties of rom com getaways are rare in the theater setting, which is why I was surprised to hear about You, Me, & Tuscany, a film coated with everything those predictable Netflix movies are known for,…but is that a bad thing?

Tags 2026, Halle Bailey, PG-13, Rated PG-13, Rom Com, Romantic Comedy, Tuscany, You Me & Tuscany

4 Stars

Project Hail Mary (2026)

I hold no secrets when I state that no other subject in school was more frustrating to me than science.

Whether it was my plant being the only one in class that didn’t grow, having two friends who were no help at all in dissecting a frog in middle school (looking at you, Scott and Steve), or just having too many bits of information going over my head without any chance to catch up, it was the subject that eluded me. This is all the more reason why it is rare for a film like Project Hail Mary to come along, as it is rare for a film to make me wish I were truly adept at science.

Tags 2026, Christopher Miller, Lord and Miller, PG-13, Phil Lord, Project Hail Mary, Rated PG-13, Ryan Gosling, Sandra Hüller, Science Fiction

3 Stars

GOAT (2026)

It has been three decades since the original Space Jam made a splash in my young life (and even more so in my little brother Jeff’s life).

Nostalgia has blinded me from finding out if that film truly holds up or not (sorry to my nephews, but the same could not be said for the 2021 sequel), but it was, at the very least, a childhood milestone. Naturally, it made me interested in practicing basketball for a bit, yet my short height was holding me back (along with a childhood friend who, while talented, loved to showboat and win over me). Perhaps had GOAT come out in my childhood, things would be different.

Tags 2026, Family Film, Goat, Jesse Jackson, PG, Rated PG, Stranger Things

2 1/2 Stars

Chasing Summer (2026)

Within the last year or two, I was given (without much warning) the duty of helping to organize a 20th reunion for my High School graduating class (set for the fall of this year).

Honestly, it is somewhat low-key (we are all just meeting at a bar for now), but the interactions with my fellow grads of 2006 will indeed be a unique blend of fear and excitement (since I am one of those heading the whole thing, I doubt I can avoid people much when I am there). If it is anything like the reunions shown in Chasing Summer, it will be much more fear than excitement.

Tags 2026, Iliza Shlesinger, Josephine Decker, Megan Mullally, R, Rated R, Sundance, Sundance Film Festival, Tom Welling