Jun-seong, a high school student, retreats into his own private disco world to escape the noise of reality. One day, he encounters a girl named Mari, dancing in her own headphones. She says something to him, but with his noise-canceling turned all the way up, Jun-seong is left only with the sight of her silent lips. What exactly did she say?
Turning Red' has received hate for being 'unrelatable' while dealing with one of the most human experiences. Despite the Turning Red controversy that it's unrelatable, it is yet another Pixar classic that will inevitably stand the test of time.
Inuit girls use their Inuit tradition to hunt down alien monsters, enough said.
A direct fall into the white savior narrative
Growing up without a dad, I got a lot of my fatherly advice from the prototypes I saw on the silver screen. It’s these characters and films that gave me a glimpse into a dynamic I had never known but also made me realize that I was missing out. Here are my top 10 paternal films.
We sat down with Writer/Director Albert Acosta to discuss his debut short film, (ha-ha), Acosta's foray into narrative cinema, and how his personal experiences have shaped his filmmaking philosophy.
One of THE most frustrating trends in the mainstream film industry over the last several decades has been the onset of comedy efforts that seem SO focused on being crude and/or gross-out in all ways possible. That, at least for me, makes them no longer funny.
