A gigolo makes the mistake of getting involved with the local triad leader's girlfriend. She makes the mistake of falling in love.
Ultimately the problem with The Bubble is that it plays everything for laughs to get around the audience’s defenses. But it comes off like a privileged white male thinking that ridiculing everyone else equally is the road to equality. And it’s not. And it's definitely not funny to pretend that it is.
I like discovering something new among the old and Tubi has an assortment of horror films from cinema's past for just such an occasion.
"Hustlers" returns power to groups that are traditionally deprived of it: women, the working class, and sex workers.
This film was filled with great plot points. Unfortunately, they all contradicted each other and clashed. Had the premise of Awake been more consistent and accurately portrayed the real world aspect, I think this could have been an extreme success.
Can a piece of bad representation truly be reclaimed? We Are Pat (2025) attempts to answer this question.
I understood post-memory as passing down stories and images of one’s experiences that are not your own. For decades, rape has been depicted in cinema through a third-person perspective, leaving the viewer to observe rape; not to experience it.
