Gülşah, a sweet girl with a happy family life, comes home one day to an unexpected scene. Unable to find her parents at home, the little girl learns that her father has been unjustly imprisoned and her mother has been taken to the hospital. Shocked by this great tragedy, the girl nevertheless maintains her composure and vows to overcome everything by hugging her little brother. The young girl will now have to care for her younger sibling while also earning money to support her father in prison and her mother in the hospital. Left alone in the world, Gülşah will work various jobs to provide for her family, experiencing an unusual level of maturity at such a young age.
I think these messages and the way they are presented in this small-town in Texas are increasingly more important as the internet/ social media becomes more and more critical and judgemental every day. Love yourself today and every day because as Ru Paul always says: “If you can’t love yourself, how in the hell are you gonna love someone else?”
The characters aren’t likable, the story is predictable and the humor is either disgusting, obnoxious, or uncomfortable. The Wrong Missy is a mess of a film and it’s not really worth your time.
In 1977, Star Wars changed the world. It took the universe by storm, completely redefining everything everyone knew about movies. But then, in 1980, The Empire Strikes Back changed Star Wars. Sequels were not as well regarded back then as they are today.
The film exhibits a respect for the craft and an empathy for human tribulations that have historically been ignored.
I write for a diversity-focused film review blog, so I’ll be honest: I really wanted to like Pretty Lethal. Starring Maddie Ziegler, Lana Condor, Iris Apatow, Avantika, and Millicent Simmonds, Amazon Prime’s new thriller seemed like it would be a girl power movie about dancers with a horror action twist. Sort of a Suspiria for teens. But with shallow and unlikeable characters, a confusing plot, an overreliance on violence, and cringey dialogue, any fun the movie started out with was quickly lost. What was left was a faint echo of greater horror movies about dancers made before.
