A Tourist's Guide to Love and Adventure
Amanda Riley gets the opportunity to travel to Vietnam for the experience of a lifetime.

Amanda Riley gets the opportunity to travel to Vietnam for the experience of a lifetime.
If you're missing the freedom of travel, explore the world via these international films that put their gorgeous settings in the spotlight.
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.
The original Mothra is a fun monster movie that has way stronger lore, music, and special effects than most of its contemporaries.
A complete ranking of every Godzilla movie, including shared universe films.
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.