Jin-ah is abducted by a trafficking ring during her first year of university and forced into prostitution. Over time, she begins to accept her circumstances as an unavoidable reality and adapts to life inside the brothel. Meanwhile, her colleague Dong-hee continues working despite suffering from a sexually transmitted disease, leading to further complications when an infected client seeks her out.
While it is more than established that Halston’s life is far from a fairytale, the narrative suffers as a result of the decision to revolve more around sex and drugs than his artistry, it likely does a disservice to his cultural impact by pulling focus from his achievements.
Netflix's Afterlife of the Party might fall into the rom-com genre, but it's much more about grief, strong female friendships, and platonic love than it is about romance.
My review’s title is a nod to Shakespeare and is entirely deliberate. The original movie portrayed the high-end fashion world as a brutal arena of plotting, backstabbing, and betrayal, and most Shakespeare’s plays depend on these plot devices. The Devil Wears Prada 2 uses the same formula, and is, plot-wise, almost identical. Once again, we plunge into the cutthroat world of Runway, where to get and stay at the top, you must let go of your principles and moral sense. The only thing different is that due to the digital era, Runway is not a print magazine anymore, but one that is running online.
We, the Jane Austen aficionados, are suckers for everything and anything under the sun that’s remotely related to her and her world. That’s because we are so drawn to her unique style of fiction, romance, and social commentary, we take any allusion to her influence as a hint to what to expect when we start watching a movie or reading a book.
Magnolia focuses on how one’s childhood and trauma relate to their confidence and self.
A 2020 Japanese anime movie that focuses on a high school girl who is desperately in love with her secret crush.
