Once Upon a Time in (White) Hollywood
Tarantino's alternative history of the 1960's uncritically repeats the era's sexist and racist stereotypes.

Felix & Johnny are a young tattooed and pierced couple making out in bed, where they've set up a tripod camera to catch all of the action. Austin & August are two cute alt-coeds. They make out with Steve and lick each other's tits. There is a 3-way with one giving him a blowjob while the other rubs her pussy, and then a double blowjob with pussy licking and the girls kissing. Jezebel is a cute brunette coed flirting and flashing her tits and her boyfriend outside. She gives him a blowjob and he titfucks her while filming it POV style. Chloe is a cute young brunette reading a book in bed. She starts to masturbate, rubbing her pussy and stripping to reveal her big breasts. She rubs her pussy and sucks on a dildo. Then she sticks it in her pussy while using a vibrator and then uses the dildo anally.
Tarantino's alternative history of the 1960's uncritically repeats the era's sexist and racist stereotypes.
“To be universal, you have to get specific”: while the film does not attempt to provoke discussions about queerness or race, those watching closely may find something resonant in Sorrentino’s love letter to the Naples of his youth.
The plot could’ve really been interesting if the elements of lycanthropy was integrated with perhaps the struggle of identity of being LGBTQ+. It's an experience for so many that as they’re starting to realizing their true selves, they feel like a monster, especially if they come from unsupportive homes or communities. Instead, the horror and transformation elements seem thrown in without contemplation of how this could deepen the narrative.
White audiences saw Peola’s mixed-race passing as a Black woman’s struggle to be white. Black audiences saw it as the rebellion of a Black woman trying to gain privileges only given to white people.
This short film was an overall creative success.
The Bluff unravels its mystery slowly, opening on the capture of a ship captain named Bodden (Ismael Cruz Córdova) and the swift execution of his entire crew. Then, viewers are treated to a tranquil British settlement in the Cayman Islands in the 1850s, where a mother bakes a coconut birthday cake for her son in a house suspiciously rigged with makeshift tripwires and burglar alarms. As it turns out, that mother is Priyanka Chopra’s quick witted and resourceful ex-pirate Mrs. Ercell Bodden, and her husband’s captors are on the way to the island to hunt her down for abandoning them and stealing their loot. The pirates of the Libertas land on the beaches of Cayman Brac, and the scenes that follow show a Viking-esque slaughter of half the island.