Sinners– This latest film is from the director of Fruitvale Station and Black Panther and tackles vampires in the old south. I sort of glad that we’re getting to see Black characters tackling Classic Horror movie tropes like Frankenstein, vampires, and the devil, in films. I only wish the...
Dunst then assumed several roles in movies that satirically thwarted teen film tropes, including a competitor in an increasingly absurd beauty pageant in Drop Dead Gorgeous (1999), one of a pair of ditsy teenage girls (alongside Michelle Williams) who live in the Watergate building during the ...
playing sleazy lawyer Saul Goodman, it was a small shock to the system for anyone who had long appreciated his work as a writer and a comic actor on series likeSNLandMr. Show. Little did we know that this was only the beginning of a tragic and hilarious tale that would start to take ...
From its lack of stakes to its absence of style, and from its laughable CGI to its palpable discomfort with the rhythms and tropes of its genre, “Madame Web” is a superhero movie that feels like it was made by and for people who have never seen a modern superhero movie. In theory,...
and potentially even shock a few, but we wholeheartedly believe that our list — one which embraces subjectivity and blows a raspberry in the face of the idea of trying to somehow classify art objectively — makes for a pretty darn decent rundown of the finest TV shows the form has to of...
Season 3 cemented the series as a masterwork that should not be doubted, so we can't wait to find out what else the kids (and their folks) get into when Stranger Things 4 comes along to reimagine some more time-honored tropes from your favorite '80s movies. –Amanda Bell...
Reiner’s next directorial success wasThe Princess Bride(1987), based on a novel byWilliam Goldman. A wry fantasy that mocked many of the tropes it employed, the film tossed a cast that includedRobin Wright,Cary Elwes, andBilly Crystalinto a world of adventure, romance, and arch, satirical...
its subversion of superhero tropes, emotional story beats, and ensemble cast will keep your attention until things really start to pick up from season one episode four, by which point you should be fully hooked. Myreview ofInvincibleseason 1,review ofInvincibleseason 2 part 1, andreview ofInvin...
System Crasher is a very sad movie. It is a film full of love and pain and about an institution that fails a flawed but beautiful child time and time again. My heart really broke for the kid. The way the film shows the failures of those who truly believe in her and support her real...
Not only have creators Matt and Ross Duffer — aka the Duffer brothers — repurposed 1980s tropes of friends going on adventures who end up saving the world, but they’ve created a next generation of stars (Millie Bobby Brown, Joe Keery, Maya Hawke and Noah Schnapp, among others) with ...