Hee-soo goes to her ‘rich lover Seok-ho’ while her husbands is on a business trip. Her younger brother Hee-yeong and her husband Jeong-tae are also together. Hee-soo introduces Seok-heo to Hee-yeong and Jeong-tae, and Seok-ho falls in love with Hee-yeoung at first sight. As Seok-ho tries to avoid Hee-soo’s eyes, and meet with Hee-yeong’s eyes instead, he decides to take advantage of Jeong-tae. Jeong-tae who dreamed of having sex with Hee-soo, seduces her, and while Hee-soo and Jeong-tae were playing, Seok-ho wins and took Hee-yeong as price. These people who are complicatedly intertwined, are at a crossroads to choose whether to disperse or become a new family.
Even with its straightforward premise, “Richard Jewell” is ramped up by exceptional drama. In all honesty, the performances are out of this world. As Jewell, Paul Walter Hauser becomes a walking representation of gullibility. His bumbling antics create the perfect hero, and very quickly, we feel the societal heat that surrounds our protagonists.
A story of a magical dragon brings great representation for Chinese culture.
"THANK YOU, Zach Creggar!" Back in 2022, this now established star in the horror film genre gave us the quirkily creepy, unexpectedly funny (at times!) cinematic gem that was "Barbarian". It felt like a cool breeze just washed over us as, for ONCE, the much traversed roads these films tend to go with got an upgrade of uniqueness without sacrificing the ambiance of uneasiness you desire.
But what many do not know is that in 2019, a Wonder Woman film was released that had all of the positive qualities of WW84, and remedied many of the negative ones. Wonder Woman: Bloodlines, a direct-to-video animated movie in the DC Animated Movie Universe, perfectly balances the campiness and seriousness of the character.
"Warrior" is a Bruce Lee written and inspired story that follows a diverse cast of Chinese American characters and does a terrific job of setting the story in 1878 San Francisco - all without pulling their punches with the systemic racism, discrimination, and struggle for power that old and young immigrants that crossed the country at that time had to go through.
Kat Wahlen’s The Whiteboard tells, or rather shows, a delightful love story between two young women who meet in detention.
