The precarious representations in One Battle After Another
A bumpy journey about revolution and family makes us feel fear, disgust, humor, and satisfaction.

Fu-yan is commissioned by Kikuchi, a lecherous old man, to produce an original underground adult video. While taking a ferry to meet Kikuchi, he saves Yumeko, a woman attempting to jump from the deck. Having been abandoned by his original lead actress, Fu-yan casts Yumeko as the star of the video, but...
A bumpy journey about revolution and family makes us feel fear, disgust, humor, and satisfaction.
I was able to watch the gleefully mesmerizing Disney remake that was Robert Zemeckis’ Pinocchio. I was enthralled by Zemeckis’ iteration.
“Candyman ain't a 'he.’ Candyman is the whole damn hive." Candyman represents all Black victims of white supremacy, and this art form narratively conveys it in a succinct, adulatory way, the history of which is rare to find.
Frozen II is not quite direct to DVD Disney sequel level, but if it wasn’t for the spellbinding animation and budget, it certainly would be.
What starts off as a success story for a single mother living below the poverty line, slowly begins to weave itself into a tangled web of greed, guilt, and destruction.
We can criticize depictions from old media, but they weren’t simply “good for their time”. They were fighting and struggling in a world we can’t imagine.