Two high school boys stumble upon an unguarded scooter before class starts in the morning. Seeing a chance to finally taste freedom, they decide to flee the depressing classroom and the suffocating metropolis of Taipei city. It is the beginning of a road trip with the sunset as the final destination. Sadly, they had misunderstood the direction of the sunset...
Outer Banks (2020-) knows its audience: young adults in a country that can’t stop romanticizing good ole’ treasure hunts. Add a little of Riverdale’s (2017-) sex appeal, and no one can look away. Forty years after The Goonies (1985) America’s consciousness hasn’t strayed from the same tropes: treasure hunts, a vulnerable white male lead, and the whitewashing of a racially segregated setting.
Unfortunately, People We Meet on Vacation didn’t hold up quite as well as I’d hoped.
One Night in Miami... did not frame the racism and bigotry as something that could be solved by quality time spent between individuals. Instead, it featured four different legends of Black History together in one room disagreeing for about 2/3 of the film.
The definition of the word foul is “offensive to the senses,” which is a pretty good summation of the new Disney+ film, Artemis Fowl
This list was made with the intention of celebrating comedic craft and a love of seeing more women of colour and newcomers on the scene.
A Black woman centered in a box office rom-com with a happy ending and no struggle love.
