Hitomi Shiraki is a carefree, happy housewife in her first year of marriage. Drawn by favorable conditions such as three meals, naps, sex included, and a permanent job with a house included, she even dropped out of the university she had been attending and married Koji, an assistant professor at her school. From the outside, their married life appears happy, but her sex life is full of dissatisfaction. The cause is the presence of her older sister, Yuriko, who is living with them under the condition that she will stay only until marriage. Because she is considerate of Yuriko, her sex with Koji is always incomplete, and Hitomi’s stress is on the verge of exploding.
The movie makes it abundantly clear that Meeka becoming an official heir is the most likely going to happen. But if you are expecting to see a movie about Meeka’s perseverance and eventual ascent to the throne, prepare to be deeply disappointed.
David Fincher is back in his playpen, with a dark and chilling thriller.
Gretel & Hansel falters due to its razor thin story and lack of characterization. It loses sight of horror’s key rule: In order to create an effective tale, characters and emotions must be emphasized.
Never Have I Ever season 3 is charming and hilarious as it has been in past seasons and still sports a diverse ensemble cast. However, the show doesn’t always treat its marginalized characters that well.
I think that the happiness and survival of "Wynonna Earp"’s LGBTQ+ characters is incredibly refreshing in contrast to the prevalence of queer suffering and death in other television.
I write for a diversity-focused film review blog, so I’ll be honest: I really wanted to like Pretty Lethal. Starring Maddie Ziegler, Lana Condor, Iris Apatow, Avantika, and Millicent Simmonds, Amazon Prime’s new thriller seemed like it would be a girl power movie about dancers with a horror action twist. Sort of a Suspiria for teens. But with shallow and unlikeable characters, a confusing plot, an overreliance on violence, and cringey dialogue, any fun the movie started out with was quickly lost. What was left was a faint echo of greater horror movies about dancers made before.
