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.
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.
Writer and producer of 'Remember Me: The Mahalia Jackson Story', Ericka Nicole Malone discusses her humble beginnings in the industry.
Tara Thorne’s film is equal parts emotional and comedic, illustrating the beauty and the pain of long term relationships.
Sorry to Bother You ultimately speaks to the unfair advantages that the country’s power structures award to those with the resources to control others, as Lift’s easy access to the media allows his opinion to be the only one that matters in the eyes of the unsuspecting and easily impressed public. Moreover, it reveals the extent to which the American Dream has any true validity. It postulates how the promise of success and fulfillment as promoted by the American Dream more often than not leads to the undoing of the individual. Interestingly, in its revealing of the American Dream as merely a facade, Sorry to Bother You wisely questions whether or not anything can really be done to undo a system that has been accepted and in action for centuries.
'Airplane Mode' is a young adult movie that is about a woman who learns to step away from her smartphone, and from social media.
“Candyman ain't a 'he.’ Candyman is the whole damn hive." Candyman represents all Black victims of white supremacy, and this art form narratively conveys it in a succinct, adulatory way, the history of which is rare to find.
