Ready Player One (2018)

This little Netflix film was very inspirational. It passes the Bechdel test, and features a different worldview with rural Indian representation.

What seems like such a simple story of survival is so much more than that—it’s a story of family, and of war, and of destruction. It’s painful to watch, but not in a bad way. It makes its audience reflect on their own actions, and in how they are complicit in the sufferings of others as the adults in this film are. Grave of the Fireflies does not hold back from being heartbreaking, and it shouldn’t. It tells a message that needs to be heard decades after the war, and a story that cannot be forgotten by history.

An attempt to capture nostalgia that unfortunately just doesn’t work

The sequel to the 2010 live-action movie focuses on sibling rivalry.

We, the Jane Austen aficionados, are suckers for everything and anything under the sun that’s remotely related to her and her world. That’s because we are so drawn to her unique style of fiction, romance, and social commentary, we take any allusion to her influence as a hint to what to expect when we start watching a movie or reading a book.

It is not hard to make a musical biopic that pleases audiences and draws a profit.  Michael is no exception.