Catherine is a young and sexually liberated girl with a boyish figure who lives with her older boyfriend Carlo, the author of erotic novels, in a seaside villa. There is also a maid there, with whom Catherine dallies on the side, lighting a fire under Carlo's creativity. A photographer named Ian is determined to take provocative nude photos of Catherine and, when Carlo is summoned to Rome on business, it seems his chance has come.
At first glance, one wouldn't think John Carpenter's cult classic would be a thematic double-billing - or that Free Guy would be worthy of being mentioned in the same sentence as They Live - but the two films of vastly different genres have more similarities upon further examination.
It only seems to prove that when the company had their backs against the wall and needed an all pleasing, generic movie that had to make up for The Last Jedi, they chose to sacrifice almost everything that made their main protagonist interesting and that made her stand out as the strong female character that a generation of young movie goers was supposed to look up to. Instead, we were left with a Rey that was so much less than she could have been. And I guess that’s the real story of Rey and The Rise of Skywalker; they could have been so much more, but they were just more of the same.
Writing great villains is about striking a balance between charming and evil, so we love them but also love to see them lose.
Disney has hopefully learned some lessons since 1994. Are those lessons reflected in the 2019 remake of "The Lion King?"
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.
