EMO is a tale of melancholic introvert who is overly sensitive, emotional, and full of angst, and who adopts a certain style. Our protagonist in the story is deeply in love with hard-core music and possesses a style of emotionally charged punk rock and highly expressive and bleak. Themes of pain, loneliness and death feature prominently.
Outer Banks (2020-) knows its audience: young adults in a country that can’t stop romanticizing good ole’ treasure hunts. Add a little of Riverdale’s (2017-) sex appeal, and no one can look away. Forty years after The Goonies (1985) America’s consciousness hasn’t strayed from the same tropes: treasure hunts, a vulnerable white male lead, and the whitewashing of a racially segregated setting.
A young woman who dislikes dogs changes forever when a beloved pet comes into her life in this heartwarming story for animal lovers.
Hanna Bergholm's 'Hatching' shows us that the modern version of the cardboard world trope is social media.
Its predictability shouldn’t distract from the enjoyment that the pure cinematic imagination behind the camera elicits. It is a movie of crises both moral and mortal, oozing with CGI, and thoroughly enjoyable.
Behind all the action, 'Space Sweepers' is a surprisingly heartfelt and progressive story about building community.
How powerful can a story be when it is stripped to the bare essentials of just a room, a handful of people and raw human voice?
