We all have our favorite and least favorite tropes. From love triangles to slow burns, tropes are often the best ways to showcase great characters and storylines. They can also be frustrating and make you question why it is even… Features Schitt’s Creek 6×02 Review: ‘The Incident’ ...
Tubi Pluto TV Knock Knock (2015) This movie will appeal most to two sets of people: Those who love director Eli Roth and everything he does, and those interested in the strange but very satisfying Keanu Reeves comeback. The actor plays a married man home alone for the weekend who tak...
With Midsommar, Ari Aster tossed most of the horror tropes we’ve grown so tired of out the window (he was never really a subscriber anyway). Midsommar takes place primarily in the bright light of day, and all murders occur offscreen. We only get to see the aftermath, and it isn’t...
the story, on balance, is quite good.Rohirrimis a reverent attempt at portraying the fantasy, characters, trappings and tropes Tolkien first created inThe Hobbit(1937).
Altogether, it adds up to a different kind of daddy-daughter story—one that’s endearing in a non-cloying way and that tells a story of human interaction without relying on standard tropes and audience manipulations. Amazon link Scrappermight work just as well as a play, because it revolves...
All across the country this practice continues to use prickly, scalding or even poisonous plants as apo- tropes, for fumigating a patient with the magical intention of expelling the spirit of the disease. For ex- ample, children that had received a fright were fumi- gated with agrimony, ...
But the murderers don’t expect for an Aussie outback veteran (breakthrough Sharni Vinson) to have fast-paced survival skills, and what follows is clever retaliation against home invasion tropes as the woman keeps the killers on their toes and shifts the power dynamic, upending the mysterious ...
Featuring nearly all first time actors, including future TV stars Blake Gibbons (TV's General Hospital), Kelly Mullis (TV's How I Met Your Mother), and John Marzilli (TV's The Secret World of Alex Mack), this regional treasure hits Blu-ray from Vinegar Syndrome, stuffed with extras and...
Aside from leaning on well-worn sci-fi tropes, the movie attempts to explore some adult themes, with varying degrees of success. The challenges inherent in colonizing an alien planet are addressed obliquely and the dome-like protection, called “Laser Shield,” prevents a lot of dramatic tension...
Beth Catois the author of the Chefs of the Five Gods duology with 47North and The Clockwork Dagger series and the Blood of Earth trilogy with Harper Voyager. She was a 2015 Nebula Award finalist in the novella category. Her short stories and poetry can be found in hundreds of publications...