The scene is an alternative Budapest, with a special kind of dictatorship controlled by a company group called the Golden Dimension. Lens is dark, cynical character of this world. With his special ability, he can burn the pictures of the past and the future into photosensitive paper. He sells his ability as an outlaw private detective or cheap showman.
In the film adaptation, director Jon M. Chu turns each musical number into a massive show stopper, with grand set pieces and a wealth of diverse dancers. Yet, in this attempt to show reverence for the people of the Washington Heights barrio, Chu, or maybe more specifically those in charge of casting, left out a crucial part of the community, Afro-Latinos.
Dracula evolved from a person to a monster and then from a monster to a person.
The repeated actions, the blood on the petals, the rustling under the floor…An ambient short horror film takes us into another realm.
Animation as a medium of storytelling can be thought to be open to all ages and as I hope my readings will reveal, they could be interpreted as transgender stories.
Can a homeless yet optimistic teenage girl learn to accept a helping hand?
The second episode of the highly anticipated Afrofuturism series delivers with a high-speed race teaching us to go far beyond just accepting ourselves.
