
Yuko Aso, wearing a leotard, was performing her rhythmic gymnastics ribbon routine alone in the gymnasium of Shiroyama Minami High School. Hitomi Aoyama, wearing a sailor uniform, was gazing at her with a passionate gaze. Yuko was a new female teacher who had come to fill in for a vacancy at the prestigious Shiratori Women's College of Physical Education, a gymnast with a high level of rhythmic gymnastics.
Years before Mexican director, Alfonso Cuaron, was winning Academy Awards for movies like Gravity (2013) and Roma(2018), he directed a small, intimate film about two best friends who decide to embark on an improvised road trip to spend time with an older, attractive woman who miraculously agrees to go with them. Y tu Mamá También is a deep journey into the raw sexuality and friendship of the young protagonists, as well as a subtle social and political commentary on Mexico at the time.
After the untimely death of his brother by way of an ambush in Kandahar, Afghanistan, the protagonist, ‘81’(Alan Ritchson) unsuccessfully makes several attempts to become an Army Ranger. On his last mission to complete the Ranger selection process he and his squad encounter an otherworldly ‘soldier’.
How closely should film adaptations follow their source material? Let's take a deep dive into "Norma Rae", and find out.
In Jeymes Samuel's history-infused, neo-spaghetti western, Black women are center stage with a fresh hip hop mixtape keeping rhythm in the backdrop.
'The Patient' is bound by four walls and a mediocre ending that leaves you wanting more.