Eight houses in Princess Villa one day gets a notice one day about an auction on the house. Oh Honey (Kwak Jin-yeong) gathers around the other residents of the villa and suggests they protect the villa from being auctioned off. However, the amount of money they have altogether is not enough to save it. After long thought, the residents of Princess Villa come up with an idea to run a substitute driver business. Their special services start spreading and their business does well but everything goes down the drain due to an unexpected incident... Will they be able to protect their shelter?
A refreshing twist is that all the kids’ powers are…kind of useless. There’s a kid who can only move in slow motion, a kid who has every power in the world but can only use them randomly, and our main character Missy who has no powers at all. The thesis of the film seems to be that it doesn’t matter what kind of powers you have, its the way you use them, which is good for the warm and fuzzies.
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After We Collided is a sequel to last year’s After, which itself was based on Anna Todd’s 2014 novel of the same name, and which was originally published as a Harry Styles-centric fan-fiction on WattPad (a similar path as E.L. James’ Fifty Shades of Grey series).
Praising Black representation and condemning the power structures that suppress it, a mother delivers an impassioned speech to her distant son.
Rather than following in the footsteps of poorly made horror flicks, “The Quiet Place” follows original concept.
An aspect of She-Ra that I find refreshing is even though a large portion of the cast is on the LGBTQ+ Spectrum, being gay is never mentioned. While this might initially sound like a negative thing, in the show’s land of Etheria being on the gay spectrum is shown to be so common and normalized that straight isn’t the default. As much as there is to appreciate about narratives revolving around the obstacles that may come from being non-heteronormative, it’s nice to get immersed in a world where no one bats an eye at all to any sort of differing identity.
