
A room in an old apartment. The delivery man knocks on the door to deliver a package, but there is no reply. Things are scattered all over the quiet room. The daughter is lying on the floor. The mother is sitting on the balcony and staring into the distance.
Its predictability shouldn’t distract from the enjoyment that the pure cinematic imagination behind the camera elicits. It is a movie of crises both moral and mortal, oozing with CGI, and thoroughly enjoyable.
How closely should film adaptations follow their source material? Let's take a deep dive into "Norma Rae", and find out.
Ultimately the problem with The Bubble is that it plays everything for laughs to get around the audience’s defenses. But it comes off like a privileged white male thinking that ridiculing everyone else equally is the road to equality. And it’s not. And it's definitely not funny to pretend that it is.
An action-packed adrenaline rush with a diverse cast that delivers evocative storytelling.
‘Candyman’ (2021) builds upon the original 1992 film by presenting the myth of Candyman not only as an example of black pain, but as an opportunity for black vengeance.