A career woman who is a project leader at an urban development company. She gives orders to her subordinates efficiently and speaks frankly to the president. In fact, she used to have an affair with the president, but her high sense of elitism became an obstacle and the relationship has now ended. However, because of her high sense of elitism, no man talks to her in a friendly manner anymore, and she is a lonely "solo person" in her daily life. One day, while drinking alone at a bar, she meets a cool-looking man, but he is a member of the Yakuza. The man has been entrusted by the gang with managing the women who are prostituting themselves as streetwalkers in the area. Drunk, she walks through the streetwalker area. The man says to her, "Lonely elite lady, why don't you try selling yourself?" and she says, "I'll do it." From there, she begins her double life, day and night. However, one day, one of the women standing in the area is brutally murdered, and the problem begins to spread...
Cord Jefferson's hilarious and thought-provoking film continues a long-standing cinematic tradition, expanding the conversation around the impact of systemic racism in today's media.
In Amazon’s new shark flick, The Devil’s Mouth, terrible tourists finally get their comeuppance while two estranged best friends must overcome their petty squabbles to survive as the rest of their party gets chomped one by one. While it’s by no means an Oscar winner, The Devil’s Mouth is good old fashioned shark week carnage with a tourist critical twist, perfect with popcorn, a friend, and a healthy does of schadenfreude.
The fun tricks used in the production design and lighting read extremely well on-screen but hardly fulfill their purpose of trying to inject glamour into a lack-luster story with nothing to say.
Some moments of the series are intense and ends on a cliff-hanger that will have you yearning for a second season.
Bong Joon Ho’s masterpiece, Parasite (2019) became one of the few international films to break into the American mainstream.
The June episode of the Incluvie Movie Highlights provides 3 new and buzzworthy films presenting different types of love: Good Luck to You, Leo Grande with intimacy, Father of the Bride with familial love, and this month's feature - Fire Island, with intimate and romantic love. Movie Critic Melanie Ojwang joins us to discuss Emergency.
