Category: dance

Monday and Into The Beat (2021) Movie Reviews!


A spark on a Friday can lead to a sizzling weekend fling, but what happens when you get to the inevitable Monday?

I really don’t have much to say about Monday, it’s a just passable movie which is mainly due to Sebastian Stan’s and Denise Gough’s performances. Both of them really give it there all and truly deliver some great performances. The filming is also quite nice especially when combined with the setting. The major problem is how drawn out the movie feels which ultimately leads into more very noticeable problems such as the writing. Which while does have it’s meaningful moments a lot of the time it doesn’t feel nowhere near as powerful as the movie wants it to be, as I said earlier the movie really draws out and becomes sort of a chore to sit through. Luckily the two main characters Mickey and Chloe are both at least interesting and are given character development throughout the film which helps. This is definitely a movie I’m not going to ever watch again but it’s an okay watch if you are looking for good performances and don’t care much for pacing.

6/10 C+


A ballerina discovers hip-hop by chance and is faced with an impossible choice: Does she pursue her family’s legacy or her newfound love.

This is another instance where I had no idea this movie existed until the day it came out. Into The Beat is your typical dance movie, if you have seen any given dance movie from the past congratulations you have already seen this movie. It plays beat by beat (no pun intended) in terms of story and each act of the movie. The soundtrack is at least very good which is typical for these dance movies and the acting is honestly not the worst. It just mostly suffers from being way too familiar and does absolutely nothing to standout among the several other dance movies. Especially when it’s on a platform in this case being Netflix where they already have two better dance original movies (Work It and Feel The Beat). The writing is very bare minimum and gives the cliched story and the rest of the movie is forgettable, unless your a dance movie fanatic I don’t recommend this one.

4/10 D+

Work It and Shifter (2020)


When Quinn Ackerman’s admission to the college of her dreams depends on her performance at a dance competition, she forms a ragtag group of dancers to take on the best squad in school…now she just needs to learn how to dance.

It really amazes me how the dance movie genre is still alive and well in 2020, earlier this year Feel The Beat was released which was a very decent dance movie. Work It actually surprises me I went in with not very high expectations but found it to be a genuinely good dance movie. That’s mostly due to Sabrina Carpenter and Jordan Fisher both having strong chemistry, plus the acting from them both is actually quite good. In a lot of dance movies the acting is not quite great so this was refreshing to see, the choreography was really great, the song choices I thought were very well done and the scenes that the songs were placed in match the scenes quite well. The biggest surprise was the writing, while yes it isn’t anything groundbreaking It was still solid especially given the fact this was actually written by Allison Peck the writer of Uglydolls. The movie does feel formulaic which isn’t too surprising because this tends to happen in almost every single dance movie, heck even a lot of the Step Up movies are guilty of this. However the build up to the final dance and the result is very solid, if you are a fan of dance movies you will definitely like this one. It’s definitely the closest in terms of quality to the first Step Up out of a lot of these other dance movies that have come out in recent years.

7/10 B


A young woman experiences painful and gruesome side effects after an experiment with time travel goes wrong.




I really don’t know what this was, I get that it was supposed to be a time travel movie. But good lord could have they at least made this movie interesting? The main character is about as interesting as cardboard, the rest of the characters are cliched characters with no personality. The writing is terrible and feels like it gets worse and worse as the movie goes on, speaking of which while the movie does have a few moments that I thought were good ideas, it all ends up being built up to a huge mess. It really feels like nobody knew how to structure a movie so they completely skipped several steps just to get this released.

3/10 D-