Kenbo’s Kollection

 My friend called me to go see this movie with her friend from college and I had no plans, so I went. She knew I love watching movies and I have seen the other Hercule Poirot movies. They were nothing too special, but I enjoy a good mystery now and then and I feel like these movies always had a good twist. And of course, who could say no to a movie with Michelle Yeoh. "A Haunting in Venice" takes place in you guessed it, Venice. Hercule gets commissioned by his old friend, Ariadne Oliver played by Tina Fey, to come to a children's party and then a seance after. Hercule, forever the skeptic, reluctantly follows his friend, where they experience a particularly creepy seance which was wonderfully performed by Yeoh's character Joyce Reynolds. The seance quickly ends as Hercule sees some of its lies, but the story just begins as someone in the party is murdered. Was it the ghost of those who have past or will Hercule solve another crime? Go to your local theaters to find o...

 This novel was written by Celeste Ng in late 2022, but I just found in featured at my local Barnes & Noble. I picked it up and decided to buy it because I had read her other novel, "Everything I Never Told You", and watched the mini-series for "Little Fires Everywhere". I should probably read the book version of it, but I am discouraged since I already watched the show. But the show was absolutely amazing. And "Everything I Never Told You", was a novel full of twists and turns that I really enjoyed reading. It took me only a few days to read "Our Missing Hearts". "Our Missing Hearts" follows 12-year-old Bird Gardner as he navigates a world without his mother. His mother Margaret Miu, a poet whose words were radicalized against the government. In this society, set in the US, the government was under strict policing after the Crisis, a 3-year economic depression. To come back from this, the US government created PACT to promote Ameri...

 One of the best movies I have ever seen. The main characters were two lesbians trying to lose their virginity. Talk about relatable. The movie stars upcoming actors such as Ayo Edebiri, Rachel Sennott, Nicholas Galitzine, and Ruby Cruz. It also starred former football running back, Marshawn Lynch. He is hilarious, I would have guessed he was also in the acting business. "Bottoms" was released to select theaters in late August of 2023 and was directed by Emma Seligman. Seligman and Sennott are best friends who wrote this movie together while they were in college together.  The movie follows PJ, played by Sennott, and Josie, played by Edebiri, as lesbian best friends who are categorized at the "ugly, untalented, gays". They have crushes on two other best friends, Isabel, played by Havana Rose Liu, and Brittany, played by Kaia Gerber. They attend a high school that is centered around the football players played by Galitzine and Miles Fowler. After there is a string of...

 "A Twink and A Redhead" is a podcast that features two best friends, Grant (twink) and Ashley (redhead). The podcast centers around their relationship as they have been best friends since high school. Each episode has a new topic in which they talk about themselves surrounding this topic. Like in "Jobs", Grant discusses how he worked for tv show and got a cease-and-desist order from them after talking about it on social media. In "Dating" they have their first ever guest who is Ashley's current boyfriend Eli. At the end of each episode, they do a For the Good of the Group segment where they share something that they have been thinking or something that happened to them this week. Recently, they have been putting viewers For the Good of the Group which is so funny. They have been following a girl who had sex at the Louvre! The most recent episode was "History" which I listened to with my dad in a long drive. He loved it which I was shocked ab...

 My mom and I decided to watch this new interactive movie featuring Laura Marano as the main lead, Cami. I haven't done one of these for a while and I saw on TikTok that it would be fun. When doing an interactive movie, you are posed with certain questions about what actions the main character should do. Based on what you choose, you will have alternative endings. I like that I was able to control who she ended up with, but it gave me massive amounts of stress that I made the wrong choice for her.  The movie follows Cami, a sound engineer who is in a long-term relationship with divorce lawyer Paul. Cami struggles with commitment after her parents' divorce and remarriage. She sees a pyschic who says there will be three men in her life. This confuses Cami until she sees her old high school flame, Jack. You can choose to have lunch with him or not. The next man she meets is Rex, played by Avan Jogia, and he is a famous British popstar. Now you can decide who Cami ends up with. No...

 "We Have Always Lived in the Castle" was a thin book that I picked up at the airport mostly because it was thin, and I needed something to read. I wasn't sure if I was ever going to get around to reading it but I finally did and I enjoyed it. It took me a while to get into because it is very description heavy and not my usual genre. But I find that I enjoy older books. I want to start reading more thin books made over 50 years ago. Might be my new thing. It was written in 1962 by Shirley Jackson. She is a very famous author who I think I will be reading more of. The book was from the perspective of Mary Katherine Blackwood or Merricat. Merricat was an 18-year-old girl living with her sister Constance and their uncle Julian. They lived in a large old home and were widely shunned by the townspeople because the rest of their family had been murdered by arsenic being put in their sugar during a family dinner. They live a consistent life until their cousin, Charles, comes int...

 "Theater Camp" is a new movie release in 2023 directed by Molly Gordon and Nick Lieberman. This was both of their first times directing. The movie has an all-star cast including Gordon, Ben Platt, Noah Galvin, Jimmy Tatro, Ayo Edebiri, Patti Harrison, and more. I have seen all of these people in shows and movies before and I love them all. I feel like they were perfectly cast for this movie and many of them definitely went to theater camp when they were kids.  The movie follows Troy, played by Tatro, trying to run his mother's theater camp despite having the personality of Justin Bieber and no financial experience. His mother fell into a coma, so now he must run the camp while it is on the brink of financial ruin. Teachers at the camp, Amos and Rebecca-Diane, put on a play called Joan, Still, in honor of Troy's mother. The all work to save the camp and make this play happen. We as viewers get to experience the high and lows of an intense theater camp.  "Theater ...