Story-wise, Ossan's Love: Love or Dead is a total mess. The plot feels too outlandish, the new characters are superfluous, and the writing seems severely dumbed down. The film is a disappointing sequel. Nonetheless, there's plenty of boisterous energy and slapstick humour that you will reco...
Ringer editor-in-chief Sean Fennessey and film critic K. Austin Collins discuss the emergence of modern horror films like 'The Witch' and the increasing emphasis on tone over standard horror tropes. Then, Sean is joined by Trey Edward Shults, who explains how working through his own darkness...
In terms of actual quality--I was happy to find quite a few scenes that were REALLY well directed and made me go twinkly-eyed-silent instead of "iiiihhh". That's heavy praise coming from me.Unfortunately, it's bursting with tiring and gross stereotypes and tropes-- especially Alpha Male...
Writers often describe an object by comparing it to another dissimilar object. The tropes used to do this are categorized as similes and metaphors. A simile compares two unlike objects by the use of the words "like" or "as." For example, the phrase "the box is as light as a feather" ...
Its blend of crime movie tropes and holiday themes make it an unconventional Christmas classic. Released: 2005 Directed by: Harold Ramis 19 Ice Age: A Mammoth Christmas John Leguizamo, Ray Romano, Seann William Scott 5 votes In this delightful holiday special, our favorite Ice Age characters ...
Phillipa Carr‘s Daughters of England is a typical gothic romance with cozy overtones that thwart Carr’s attempts to create tension and drama. I’m not sure if my frustration with this is due to the silly tropes used in this being typical of the writing styles when this was written or ...
A paralipsis is a figure of speech that focuses on any particular thing without really making it obvious. For example: I know who ate the last apple, but I will not mention Karen's name. Rhetoric Rhetoric in writing refers to an unexplained and undue use of exaggeration. ...
of her dreams. Since the Hangover hit R rated comedies have been more and more abundant. Since American Pie and There's Something About Mary teen based comedies have been trying to one up each other and see how much more they can get away with. This one goes pretty far in terms of ...
In Flight Gaiden: Playing with Tropesby Satire Swift (A spin-off of In Flight that began its life as a series of omake. Shirou meets an alternate version of himself who, instead of having Sword-oriented powers, has Trope-oriented powers. Very silly at times but, at the same time, the...
blend of witty banter and physical comedy, Key and Peele deliver a hilarious action-comedy that deftly subverts genre tropes while remaining wildly entertaining.Keanuunderscores the undeniable comedic chemistry between its leads while offering laughs and thrills aplenty for fans of action-packed hu...