When Isari saves a confused-looking girl named Luka from a traffic accident, she has no idea that she has saved no ordinary girl. Luka is actually a dolphin whose brain has been transplanted into a human body by a mad scientist. Not only that, but she also possesses superhuman ultrasonic powers with which she can make her enemies' heads explode or soothe her friends' hangovers the morning after a pub crawl. Together, Isari and Luka stumble upon the cause of Luka's extraordinary existence in a light-hearted film about friendship and belonging, packed with indie music and quirky characters.
Disney remakes have often gotten a bad rap for their consistent reliance on the originals and overuse of CGI. However, Mulan is a remake that is able to transcend beyond Disney's other remakes with a confident and bold earnestness.
"The Platform" is horror and science fiction film doubling as a visual commentary on capitalism and economic inequality. The movie is not for the faint of heart nor the viewer hoping for political neutrality in their film's depth.
Laggies is a fantastic movie, filled with down-to-earth characters, transcendent themes, and witty comedy
Horse racing is a very difficult sport and challenge, especially for a young woman like Michelle Payne.
Perhaps the most amazing and groundbreaking quality about The Birdcage is how removed it is from both illness and insensitivity. Whereas films preceding it were often somber stories about the tribulations of being gay in a conservatively straight world, Nichols and screenwriter Elaine May expose the fallacies of conservatism as traditional values are thrown into a more open-minded space. They don’t care how far the community has fallen so much as how high they can rebuild themselves.
