I'm a man. At first, I thought this was just another typical teen romance series - the formulaic Cinderella plot of a girl meeting a boring prince charming. But the actual content is shockingly heavy on the personal struggles and issues of every character. The show deftly alternates between...
So many characters with unlikeable characteristics. Despite the illusion of "feminism" (which tbh I only got from the reputation and an oddly placed statement here and there) this show works so hard to play into so many tropes - both female and male. A collection of bros, a woman (and ...
However, amid the sea of generic protagonists and recycled tropes, Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation stands out as a refreshing and innovative take on the isekai formula.The second part of season 1 is currently ranked the highest in the isekai anime category with an 8.67/10 score on ...
As if public posting of vicious antisemitic tropes for years, here on ground zero of the Holocaust in a country where 96.4% of the Jewish population was massacred, is a minor detail and “learning not to post” such things fixes all in the eyes of EU, America and the West, and above...
†for lack of a better word. One of these shows, however, was something special, at least for science fiction readers: a time-travel story that covers all of the tropes of that particular subgenre rather well, particularly when you consider how poorly SF stories were generally ...
We’ve all seen so many of them that the tropes are tired, and the jokes have been rehashed so many times we can see them coming long before the laugh track tells us we should be reacting to them. To actually make an impression on viewers in this genre, a show...
In the same decade, Crowe delivered acclaimed performances in A Beautiful Mind, Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, and Cinderella Man. Related: What The Original Gladiator 2 Plan Was (& Why It Didn't Happen) Now in his late fifties, Crowe is no longer the brooding actor ...
s perspective to cast a startling light on a salient social issue in the wake of the notorious Weinstein effect; meanwhile, Carlo Mirabella-Davis’ SWALLOW, doggedly builds up a reductive dissection of a young, gravid bride’s eerie disintegration, by dint of uncomfortable body horror tropes to...
Sean Baker:I just wanted to pull the rug out from under the expected genre film. I was basically presenting the audience with Hollywood’s version of the story for the first hour and that came along with a pop song which bookended the first hour with all the tropes of a rom...
As if public posting of vicious antisemitic tropes for years, here on ground zero of the Holocaust in a country where 96.4% of the Jewish population was massacred, is a minor detail and “learning not to post” such things fixes all in the eyes of EU, America and the West, and above...