Unable to bear the abuse his mother inflicted on him since childhood, Akishima ran away from home. Since then, he has made women his targets of revenge, finding solace in raping strangers. One day, as a newlywed wife was seeing her husband off, Akishima broke into her room and raped her. Afterwards, he coldly told her to forget about it, as telling her husband would only result in divorce. Akishima continued to rape women one after another...
The biggest highlight of the film is easily the performance of Andrew Garfield. In his days since hanging up his Spiderman suit, Garfield has routinely churned out great performances, and Mainstream is no exception. He proves that he is willing to try anything and go anywhere in a character.
Diana’s spirit has taken off, ‘No right, no wrong, no rules for me.’ And in that moment, as she runs on the screen, she gets it, her ‘Let It Go’ moment.
Writing great villains is about striking a balance between charming and evil, so we love them but also love to see them lose.
This current year, as well as the past several, has seen a slowly building increase in something the horror genre has required for quite a while in this critic's opinion...originality. I've stated before that I am very hard to please when it comes to this vein of the film industry's offerings, always leaning more towards that which sends chills through my very being in lieu of buckets of blood and gore.
The 'Shaft' remake fails to capture blaxpoitation's rebellious spirit.
Emily Henry’s adaptation reaches romance movie standards, but not romance reader standards.
