What begins as a casual get-together between close college friends Harry, Marty, Teddy, and Cecy quickly devolves into a chaotic, self-aware, pseudo-horror goose chase when Marty goes missing. The plot is lost when Harry begins acting less like the group's friend and more like their stage director, trying to salvage the horror short film he has cast his friends in.
As noted in the headline, I didn’t like this movie. Not to say it’s the worst thing ever, but it’s just…meh. Nothing much to it. Very generic. No surprises. At the very least, the cast is diverse so I’ll give it that.
Taika Waititi writes, directs and co-stars in 'Boy', set in 1984 New Zealand. The film does just what Waititi dreamed of — it gave a great coming-of-age story to Māori people without making a story of the Māori people as an exotic other.
It doesn’t offer an absolute answer for the dialectical ethical questions that emerged in search of justice but portrays the characters as living people beyond the identities of victims.
The original Mothra is a fun monster movie that has way stronger lore, music, and special effects than most of its contemporaries.
Making Apes begins by looking back at the history of makeup effects in Hollywood, which was revolutionized by Jack Pierce, the person behind Frankenstein (1931) and The Wolf Man (1941)
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.
