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...
The show often uses various tropes or patterns from cartoons or other series: The popular "Wilhelm scream" sound effect is used in a number of episodes: "Home", "The Rise of the Great Devourer," "The Last Hope", "Rise of the Spinjitzu Master", "The Surge", "The Greatest Fear of ...
Viswanathan is mesmerizing as the lead in Hala, commanding the screen and adding resonance to what Baig calls a "universal story" that's much more than a rehash of teen tropes. "I didn't have those stories growing up, for myself, and so I really wanted that for, like, the teenage ...
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 ...
its slow-burn storytelling never less than totally compelling. Simon crafted a series that skips the usual procedural tropes, looking instead at the linked worlds of cops and criminals in a way that highlights the humanity clouded by labels. High stakes, big emotions and even a scene conducted ...
It treads the line perfectly between verisimilitude of setting, and nostalgia safariing, choosing to warmly bathe rather than drown its audience in tropes and pop-culture references. The show’s characters are distinct, rich, well-drawn and entertaining, comprising a symbiotic ensemble that contains...
television, presented in an episodic format. Like classic "Star Trek," each episode concludes at the end of the hour, presenting -- if done well -- a miniature morality play of the week. "Strange New Worlds" dares to dabble in that most taboo of modern storytelling tropes: the status ...
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 ...
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...
Enchanted– I’ve always adored this film. Bringing fairy tales to the real world, this film twists the typical tropes on their head. While it’s replete with wicked stepmothers and princes, it also shows that stepmothers don’t have to be wicked and you can be charming without being a ...