A young Latina girl, getting bullied at school for her prominent leg hair, begs her mother to let her shave her legs. When her mom adamantly refuses, the girl turns to her older sister for help.
Complex relationships between mothers and daughters are far from a new concept, whether the strain comes from abandonment, beliefs, or trauma. In My Only Wish, an Incluvie Film Festival submission, Brenda Gutierrez’s take on her character’s maternal divide comes in the form of abandonment.
As legal dramas go, we rarely see an African-American actor in the lead role. "The Burial" has several.
Poor Black characters are usually surrounded by crime and violence, while poor White characters are portrayed as noble and hard-working.
A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night, though its feminism may be unintentional, cannot exist without its focus on women reclaiming power. The movie is feminist by definition, even if Amirpour didn’t write it with that in mind. A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night is mesmerizing, poetic, and stunning, both for its portrayal of feminist ideas and its powerful story that is both horrific and subtly romantic at once.
Emma Stone (Estella and Cruella) and Emma Thompson (the Baroness) did not come to play around in Cruella. They embodied the perfect balance of sinister and sincere. Estella went through a great hero's journey, and what a journey it was!
We got a movie that takes the old school approach of trying to creep you out with chilling atmosphere more than anything else.
