Set hundreds of years in the future, at a time where humans have colonized the solar system, the U.N. controls Earth, and Mars is an independent military power,The Expanseis a wildly ambitious and meticulously constructed adaptation of novelist James SA Corey’s (actually Daniel Abraham and T...
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...
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 ...
When Bob Odenkirk showed up towards the end of the second season ofBreaking Bad, 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...
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 ofInvincibleseason 2 part 2are ...
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...
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,...
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...
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 ...
A wild romp through sci-fi tropes while dealing with closer-to-home feelings of PTSD, difficult familial relationships, absent parents, and the fear of becoming obsolete, the series has now birthed its very own plethora of in-universe references. Though the terrain may seem familiar at times,...