While the show incorporates easily recognizable tropes into its storylines, the outstanding performances, strong plots, and intriguing lore allows The Wheel of Time to stand out among the wide selections of series audiences can indulge in. 6 Bewitched Screen Gems Considered one of the most influe...
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 prince. I also love the idea that the real...
The High School Musical series updates and knowingly questions the tropes set up by Grease; the Teen Beach series interrogates the 1960s “Beach Party” musical cycle; and the Descendants franchise problematizes the pat good-vs-evil resolutions of Disney’s animated musicals. The pastiche and ...
Depicting the conflict between Killface — a put-upon alien seeking world domination – and his nemesis, the arrogant superhero Awesome X, “Frisky Dingo” took the tropes of superhero adventure and turned it into a raucous war of words. “Archer” ...
Olaf. While all four women are tropes, the genius of the show – and the incredible performances at its center – was that all had depth and tenacity, and their bond was of a kind that all viewers, regardless of gender, wanted with their own pals and confidants. Lisa Simpson (Yeardley ...
Almost every aspect of Borderlands feels borrowed and unoriginal, simply a shameless regurgitation of supposedly popular genre tropes wrapped in bad costumes and disappointing CGI. The film somehow manages to look both obviously ill-advisedly expensive and awkwardly ‘cheap’ at the same time. The pl...
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Mindfire Entertainment has announced its plans to turn the popular Eidos video gameFear Effectinto a feature film, with directorStanley Tongin talks to helm the action picture. Mindfire CEO Mark A. Altman (House of the Dead 2,DOA: Dead or Alive) is set to produce with Mindfire chairmanMar...
There are certain tropes that are nearly universal in every effective X-Men story. The good ones are always full of soapy non-mutant backstories, melodramatic romance subplots, and visually interesting applications of powers. The longer The Gifted goes on, the more confident I am that the ...
This is a slow burn romance that also happens to be an Omegaverse story. I would recomend looking up what that means to decide if this is your cup of tea or not but its not a large part of the story mostly just some of the main tropes are included. ...