How do teenagers, often faced with conflicting expectations, experience their first sexual encounter today? While the median age for first sexual intercourse remains around 17, young people’s sexuality is shaped by issues related to consent, pornography, and social media. With tenderness and humor, and at times with gravity, this film explores the evolving concerns and practices of a generation of 15- to 17-year-olds who are still thirsty for love.
Making Apes begins by looking back at the history of makeup effects in Hollywood, which was revolutionized by Jack Pierce, the person behind Frankenstein (1931) and The Wolf Man (1941)
The differences in these films could not be more blatant, and yet Gus Van Sant has found a way to portray the same messages and use the same techniques in each.
Writing great villains is about striking a balance between charming and evil, so we love them but also love to see them lose.
Dead Poets Society relies on patriarchal tropes such as overbearing fathers, contrived brotherhood, and faux-individuality in order to portray its straight white male characters as oppressed.
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.
The live-action remake brings adventure and shows viewers why representation is important in a Disney Princess movie.
