When Miyata is diagnosed with terminal cancer, she decides to join a mass suicide pact with the members of a suicide website. However, the plan ends in failure when only the man that planned the whole thing ends up dying. The owner of the suicide site promises to give Miyata a special poison that will kill her without any suffering, but in exchange he wants her to marry a resident of the apartment he manages.
From its visually stunning opening credits, which show women dancing through a forest to musical rhythms that sound almost primal, to its quiet, heartbreaking final frame, Mona Fastvold’s historical rendering of the Shaker religious movement is an experience that will stay with me for a long time.
"Idina Menzel: Which Way to the Stage?" shows viewers how the star became who she is today.
“Ad Astra” is a film that possesses similar beats to sci-fi classics, falling into the realm of cinematic hypnotism, and pulling us in with its mysteriously intoxicating identity.
It's not love. It's Obsession. The hook of this movie is the tension between wanting to be loved and the fear of being all-encompassed by that love. It plays on men’s typical (though certainly not universal) inner-conflict
In order to learn why an arguably outdated fanfic trope was resurfacing in the contact zone of popular culture, I dove into a vibrant trough of character development.
Leveraging the cockiness of many of his interview subjects, Theroux created an exposing documentary that shows just how scary these sections of the internet can be.
