Katey Stoetzel
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film/tv critic across the web. former podcaster. TV Editor for The Young Folks. member of the Kansas City Film Critics Circle (KCFCC). find me @kateypretzel

Pride 2021: Our favorite shows currently streaming to celebrate Pride even after June

Pride month might be coming to an end, but there’s always time to watch, catch-up, or discover new LGBTQ shows. This year already brought us important shows such as It’s A Sin, about love, life, and discovery in 1980s London…

‘Love, Victor’ review: Season two breaks away from established narratives

Narrative crutches can make or break a TV series, and Love, Victor walks that very fine line in its second season, premiering today on Hulu. After initially DMing Simon, from Love, Simon, (Nick Robinson) asking for advice about coming out…

‘Cruella’ review: A roaring and fashionable good time

Mark down Cruella as a villain origin story you didn’t know you needed. The latest trend of giving backstories to otherwise pretty transparent characters does get a bit tedious, but Craig Gillespie’s dive into a villain known for killing puppies…

‘Things Heard & Seen’ review: A bonkers ending saves this film’s predictable and uninteresting beginning

It’s rare that a film starts as bad as this one does and still manages to stick the landing. Things Heard & Seen begins as a typical haunted house story riddled with cliches but somewhere along the way, the film…

‘We Broke Up’ review: A standard break-up film with some surprising tricks up its sleeve

What you see is what you get in Jeff Rosenberg’s We Broke Up. A couple breaks up in the first two minutes and what follows are random yet predictable scenarios for the rest of the runtime as the two must…

‘Zack Snyder’s Justice League’ review: An epic, overly long, and chaotic superhero tale that still improves on its predecessor on almost every level

To say I was dreading Zack Snyder’s Justice League is a gross understatement. After years of watching a toxic fandom grow on Twitter, hearing that a four-hour cut was set to premiere on HBO Max seemed over-the-top and self-indulgent. I…

‘The Falcon and the Winter Soldier’ premiere review: Sam & Bucky get much-needed focus

Marvel’s television shows are the perfect setting to handle the fallout of the “blip” from Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame. The return of half the population after five years gone was mostly played for laughs in Spider-Man: Far From…