After the Spirit-Flower that guards the human realm exhausts its power and requires a new flower soul, the sinister Lord Hanlin seizes the opportunity to help the ancient demon Yu Beast invade. With a great calamity imminent, Jiang Chen and Qing Luan embark on a desperate quest to find the missing flower soul. Through shared trials and life-and-death tribulations, love blossoms between them—only for Qing Luan to discover that Jiang Chen himself is the very flower soul they seek. In a final act of sacrifice, Jiang Chen offers his life to reignite the Spirit-Flower, defeating the forces of evil. In the aftermath, Qing Luan keeps eternal watch over the reborn flower, guarding the realm they saved together.
We, the Jane Austen aficionados, are suckers for everything and anything under the sun that’s remotely related to her and her world. That’s because we are so drawn to her unique style of fiction, romance, and social commentary, we take any allusion to her influence as a hint to what to expect when we start watching a movie or reading a book.
Director Martin Scorsese broadens his boundaries from mafia-driven movies, to a Buddhist biopic of the 14th Dalai Lama. While Buddhism strives for peace, ‘Kundun’ reveals the violence inflicted on Tibetan Buddhists and Scorsese’s depiction of violence does not stray away.
'Little Woods' rethinks the Western genre and examines the misogyny and classism inherent in the healthcare industry.
Turning Red' has received hate for being 'unrelatable' while dealing with one of the most human experiences. Despite the Turning Red controversy that it's unrelatable, it is yet another Pixar classic that will inevitably stand the test of time.
“Synchronic” is special, but it doesn’t succeed in achieving all the objectives it aims for. The film is a science fiction oeuvre which tries to be cerebral at some points, although the original idea is interesting, it only accomplishes to talk about some serious matters superficially.
Everyone needs a BFF and a "wing person" like Yumi (Chloris Li). Li brings the "straight person" persona, literally and figuratively balancing James Aaron Oh's perfectly timed comedic delivery as the unlucky-in-love.
