Earth succumbed to a nuclear war caused by an infamous evil being known as Dr Hell, who today dominates the world with his technology from a distant planet called Goretech. Now the world is only violence and death and humanity is inexorably approaching its extinction, as there are no women left alive. A timorous and cowardly young man named Han meets a mythical curmudgeonly old man who will teach him the secret of martial arts, and together they will fight to end the tyranny of the sinister Dr Hell.
I came across Urchin by chance and decided to watch it because of the title. It made me think of the spiky animal that lives at the bottom of the ocean, and the old Dickensian novels, where an urchin was an orphaned, homeless child in shaggy and dirty clothes.
These confines won’t really encourage you to read the film as a metaphor for the nerve-inducing experience we’ve all been through over the last year, however — and in the interest of maintaining your dignity, you probably shouldn’t. While the sociopolitical commentary may have worked for the similarly-themed Buried (2010), in which we find Ryan Reynolds on his own buried alive in the Middle East, but this futuristic take on the premise is best left as a piece of distracting entertainment. Nevertheless, the atmosphere is no less suffocating, literally and dramatically.
This live-action Barbie movie brings strong feminism and topics about blondes.
'Young Royals' is a great example of positive gay representation in its two main protagonists, but the supporting characters are often frustratingly selfish.
Lady Bird (Saoirse Ronan) tells her mother (Laurie Metcalf) that she wants to live through something — something that matters.
Mona Fastvold’s nineteenth century lesbian romance is emotionally charged, restrained, and poetic without feeling forced.
