Movie Review: Songbird 🚴🏻‍♂️📦😷

Songbird mimics real-world events with an uninventive dystopian twist.

KJ Apa stars as Nico in Songbird. CREDIT: STX Films

This post for Songbird is spoiler-free.

As one of the first major feature films to be produced, filmed and edited during the COVID-19 pandemic, Songbird (2020, directed by Adam Mason) is set in 2023, where the world is in full pandemic mode and quarantine camps are in existence; “munies” (people who are immune to the virus aka COVID-23) like Nico (KJ Apa) are the only people who get to roam the streets in the new normal.

Movie Review: Bumblebee 🐝

The best thing about Bumblebee is Bumblebee.

Hailee Steinfeld (left) stars as Charlie Watson in Bumblebee. CREDIT: Paramount Pictures

This post for Bumblebee is spoiler-free.

Bumblebee (2018, directed by Travis Knight) is a spin-off of the Transformers franchise. This prequel is set in 1987 and follows the story of Bumblebee and his relationship with the tomboyish teenager Charlie Watson (Hailee Steinfeld).