The Zashiki Warashi, the Snow Woman, and the Kaonashi... Three ghost stories passed down in oral tradition have been remade as adult-only dirty stories with many obscene descriptions added. Weirdness creeping into a peaceful everyday life, and sensuality everywhere under the cloak of yokai.
Ben Affleck leads The Way Back, a seemingly cathartic film for him after the actor’s recent bouts with alcoholism and rehab. He plays Jack, a man fighting his own battles who happens upon coaching a boys’ basketball team, the same team he once played for back in high school.
Steven Spielberg's West Side Story (2021) improves on the original's terrible representation, poorly written romance, and more. --> check out reviews & film summary
This little Netflix film was very inspirational. It passes the Bechdel test, and features a different worldview with rural Indian representation.
Not every film can make a shopping mall feel both magical and menacing, but Forbidden Fruits challenges that.
When they’re young, they’re America’s darlings but, when they become teens and adolescents, they’re instantly perceived as harbingers of immorality. They’re Lindsay Lohan, Macaulay Culkin, Justin Bieber, and Britney Spears. But, despite what many media outlets, politicians, and the general public may think, they are human beings above anything else. The new Billie Eilish documentary, Billie Eilish: The World’s A Little Blurry, proves this — showing the trials, tribulations, and humanity when growing up with all the world’s eyes on you.
“Reboot” is crass and sometimes incoherent, and has much room to improve, but with investments of time and care, could flower out of the seed of a vision.
