
Retracing the paths of popular faith, exploring its ancestors in the Antilles, Dominican filmmaker Juliano Kunert composes a work of ethnographic experimentation on a highly inspired promenade. Along the way, he sculpts images to represent the island’s cloudy identity, passing through its contrasting religious heritage, cemeteries of distant heroes and historical crossroads hidden in the wind.
Like all modern societal phenomenons, it started with a meme. This one highlighted that when there’s a mom in a Pixar film, she is almost without fail given striking curves that highlight the bottom half of her body following a minuscule waist. From Elastigirl to the skeletal Mama Imelda, the animation giant’s artists seem to have a fixation on making exaggeratedly curvy maternal characters.
By having two of its most beloved characters go to space in a Pontiac Fiero attached to a rocket, among other antics, F9: The Fast Saga overwhelmingly achieves the task of out-crazy-ing its predecessors.
The latest in the lineup of Disney+ Marvel shows, Hawkeye is shaping up to be a fun Christmas-themed Avenger show that’s also really down to earth.
The biggest highlight of the film is easily the performance of Andrew Garfield. In his days since hanging up his Spiderman suit, Garfield has routinely churned out great performances, and Mainstream is no exception. He proves that he is willing to try anything and go anywhere in a character.
The second season arrives over three years after its first. While late on arrival, most audience members will be happy.